The author is a KAS-Dawn.com media fellow. She reports on climate change, environment, development, governance and humanitarian issues. She tweets @Hawwa_Fazal
A backwater fed by natural waterways used to be the sole domain of a protected mangrove forest, but a real estate developer with a chequered past has erected a boundary wall around it, in the hopes of turning it into a lucrative residential scheme.
As climate change wreaked havoc and government action stalled, the people turned to the judiciary, seeking urgent intervention through landmark environmental cases.
Karachi's fire safety measures languish in neglect until calamity compels action, leaving authorities reactive rather than proactive in their approach.
Karachi's pink buses have defied scepticism by remaining operational post-elections, dispelling notions of the service being merely a political gimmick.
