Ahmed Shameel

Ghulam Abbas’s Honda City 2000 was submerged till the bonnet when he went outside his house in Federal B Area Block 18 after Karachi’s saw its third spell of monsoon rains this month. After the water subsided, the car couldn’t start and when Abbas brought a mechanic to check the problem, he was told that the car’s Electronic Control Unit (ECU) was damaged and would cost him Rs15,000.         Abbas is not the only one whose car had been damaged by Monday’s heavy downpour. Images and videos of cars, including some brand new vehicles, floating in rainwater flooded Twitter Monday as citizens documented the flooding of the streets in one of Karachi’s most sought after middle-income neighborhoods of North Nazimabad. Apart from cars getting damaged from broken tree branches which fell due to heavy rains, cars in Karachi were also damaged from the rainwater. If the car doesn’t move because of accumulated water, which is the sit...

The government and opposition parties are once again at loggerheads with each other over the amendments in the NAB law. The government has rejected the suggestions by the opposition parties, saying the proposed amendments could damage Pakistan internationally and in the Financial Action Task Force’s forum. “Anti-corruption is our core principle and our agenda,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in the parliament on Tuesday. He said that if the proposed amendments by the opposition become a law then the law itself will become meaningless. The minister said that the amendments put forward by the opposition parties seem like an attempt to remove money laundering from the NAB law. The leaders of the opposition, however, think that the government doesn’t want to talk over the amendments in ‘good faith’. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former prime minister and a PML-N leader, told reporters that the opposition parties can’t move forward with the government if th...