Karachi’s Machar Colony perennially suffers in silence, but One Health can help
- 15-Sep-2024
What reeks of sewage and nurses scourge is, in fact, home to half a million dehumanized humans, but if that doesn’t make you shudder, the threats that poliovirus was picked up from its environmental sample, hep C is rampant, its residents' collective immunity is fatigued fighting onslaughts, and that this curse will spill over to rage on more equal citizens, should
From Olympic ambitions to bare survival, Lyari's Noora lost all hope
- 28-Feb-2024
Lyari’s Noora Boxer, a person whom every new kid, in Azad Baloch Boxing Club, looked up to as a beakon of hope; one who inspired young lads into pursuing their dreams and training with everything they have got staked, gave up on his own dreams and ambitions. Noor Muhammad, aka Noora, in his late 20s, […]
Why didn't most Karachi Bengalis vote this election?
- 09-Feb-2024
KARACHI: The voter turn out on February 8 election remained unsurprisingly lower than what it should have ideally been, as some people chose not to bask in the national exercise due either to their apprehensions with regard to the veracity of the polls, or their disillusionment with electoral process all together; but there’s a sizeable […]
Trans woman rides to fight HIV spread & stigma in Pakistan
- 09-Jan-2024
Kiran Danish has been an outreach worker in HIV control program since 2009, she bike-rides to the length & breadth of Karachi to help patients
Second marriage: Christian woman wins legal battle in rare case
- 18-Dec-2023
Christian woman, legal battle, second marriage, law, THE CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE ACT, 1872, woman, rights, police, political pressure, karachi
Woman takes 6 bullets to save family in Chilas terror attack
- 10-Dec-2023
CHILAS: Roshan Bibi, 28, heroically shielded her husband and two children, when terrorists ambushed a Karachi-bound bus, carrying over 40 passengers, near Chilas, and opened indiscriminate fire resulting in 12 casualties, with many survivors sustaining severe injuries. She receives critical medical aid at a private Karachi hospital wherein doctors fear paralysis of her lower body […]
Decade-long job search of graduate Sonia Masih yields to 'discrimination'
- 11-Aug-2023
The 31-year-old mother of four now settles with tutoring neighbourhood kids and few house-help gigs to make enough for bare essentials
Coolie Himmat Ali busks on Karachi railway stations dreaming to make it big
- 08-Aug-2023
Carrying weight of people's heavy luggages to their bogies everyday for past 12 years, the artist finds no respite in constant struggle for bare subsistence
"Can't afford post-retirement life at home," says ailing 73-year-old bike rider
- 01-Aug-2023
A PIA retiree, Nizam prefers making a living by working in a ride-hailing service, over depending on help in an economy where most elderly cannot afford luxury of living away their old-age detached from financial difficulties
What tragedies befell Hyderabad's historic Pucca Qila?
- 26-Jul-2023
HYDERABAD: Built in mid 18th century, the majestic Pucca Qila awaits a messiah to restore its glory… or at least save it from complete disintegration, but will its wish be granted? For more videos, documentary reports, and feature stories, visit ARY STORIES website; Facebook page; YouTube page; and Instagram page.