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By Amar Guriro - Though Karachi is notorious for its — what they call it ‘targeted killings’ a typical phrase used in which gunmen select a man as their target, come on motorbike, shoot the target and roll away silently. But apart from such

By Amar Guriro - No one can feel the intensity of pain of a mother whose two year old son died two months ago and now her newly born daughter is also not feeling well. Lakshmi Menghwar, mother of six and resident of remote village

By Amar Guriro - It was the second day of Eid-ul-Adha, the Islamic festival of sacrifice. Karachi was on a break from the routine hustle and bustle and most of the roads of the port city were deserted due

By Amar Guriro – The government delayed taking preemptive measures and providing timely relief to the poor people of Thar and their livestock The Thar area of Sindh, being a much smaller part of the vast desert that stretches well into India, is no stranger to drought. Rain rarely ventures along this way, there being […]

By Amar Guriro –  When minorities are not allowed to elect their own representatives, who are their leaders in the assemblies representing? The coming general elections are going to be another instance in which the Muslim majority leadership of the mainstream political parties will decide the fate of non-Muslim minority, instead of the 2.78 million […]

Amar Guriro: The shrines of Sindh, hitherto untouched by the terrorists, have started going the way of their counterparts in the rest of the country It was a dreamy evening. After sunset, the sky became gloomy over the village. Herds of goats and cows started returning back to the village from pastures, unsettling the dirt […]

By Amar Guriro - Raj Kumar and his younger brother Ashok Kumar were prosperous grain traders in Jacobabad, Sindh. Distressed by steep aggravation in the law and order situation, exacerbated by reduced income after the 2010-11

By Amar Guriro - Ahmed Shakoor, 34, a tailor by profession who runs a small roadside shop in Karachi’s commercial hub of Saddar town, suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). During Ramadan, which is the

By Amar Guriro - The birth of a baby boy always brings happiness in Thatta, a traditional fishermen hamlet of Sindh province’s most backward and last district on River Indus. But when Salma gave birth to her first son, it was a

By Amar Guriro - Elderly Asha Ram, from the sand dunes district of Umerkot in the Thar Desert might possibly have wished for several things when he was younger, but now he has only one yearning: to somehow arrange an Indian visa