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The 2021 Pakistani protests were a series of protests and strikes in Pakistan from 11 to 20 April 2021. Mass protests first erupted after a series of calls for nationwide rallies and picketing against the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet, orchestrated by banned far-right party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) The primary motive was against France after a supposed ...
Murtaza Wahab, the administrator of Karachi issued a statement on Twitter that initially 15 people had died and 16 were injured and brought to hospital. [4] Senior policeman Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh confirmed that 16 people had been injured. The number of people dead was later raised to 17 after 5 of the victims died in the hospital. [5]
On 26 January 2022, members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement staged a sit-in protest in front of the Chief Minister 's House in Karachi, Pakistan, against the Local Government Amendment Bill in Sindh. [1] The police baton-charged and shelled protest demonstrators on violation of the Red Zone, killing a protester and injuring several others.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).The virus was confirmed to have reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020, when two cases were recorded (a student in Karachi who had just returned from Iran and another person in the Islamabad Capital Territory). [3]
The 2020 Karachi floods ( Urdu: سيلاب کراچی ) were the worst flooding Karachi had seen in almost a century, and killed at least 41 people. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The floods were caused by record monsoon rains from 24 to 27 August, [ 4] which were inadequately drained by poorly maintained drainage systems in the city. [ 5][ 6][ 7] The resulting ...
Karachi is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, [33] and has significant communities representing almost every ethnic group in Pakistan. Karachi holds more than two million Bengali immigrants, a million Afghan refugees, and up to 400,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar. [34] [35] [36] Karachi is now Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study released in 2009, which surveyed the 2008 GDP of the top cities in the world, calculated Karachi’s GDP (PPP) to be $75 billion (projected to be $193 billion in 2025 at a growth rate of 5.5%). It confirmed Karachi’s status as Pakistan’s largest economy, well ahead of the next two biggest cities Lahore and ...
Karachi, Pakistan. Target. Family of Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Deaths. 14. Non-fatal injuries. 10 - 15. On 14 August 2021, at 9:30 pm 14 people, including six women and three children, were killed and several others injured in a grenade attack on Independence Day at night in Karachi. All the victims belonged to a family in Khwazakhela ...