Stories by Fahim Zaman

COMMENT: Anatomy of a foreseeable disaster

What the Gul Plaza inquiry did not do is far more revealing than what it did. By treating the blaze as an isolated tragedy rather than a recurring risk, it erased institutional memory and accountability

Updated 12 Feb, 2026 09:08am

DEATH OF A RIVER

‘A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.’ The Kunhar River, which runs all the way from the upper Kaghan Valley to

Updated 29 Nov, 2020 11:36am

WHY DOES KCR NEED TO COST SO MUCH ANYWAY?

Official estimates say reviving KCR will cost Rs400 billion, but an alternate plan suggests it can be done in Rs30bn.

Updated 22 Mar, 2020 10:22am

Dawn Investigations: Rao Anwar and the killing fields of Karachi

What kind of law-enforcement system accommodates and protects cops like the former Malir SSP?

Updated 12 Mar, 2019 01:12pm

Perween Rahman's murder: the great cover-up

Why did the police destroy the evidence in the prominent social activist's slaying four years ago?

Published 13 Mar, 2018 10:24am

Rao Anwar and the killing fields of Karachi

What kind of law-enforcement system accommodates and protects cops like the former Malir SSP?

Updated 16 Feb, 2018 09:17am

The DHA City juggernaut rolls on in the name of development

Sindh officials committed multiple violations while 'gifting' 20,000 acres of land to DHA for another housing project.

Updated 08 Apr, 2019 04:57pm

The DHA City juggernaut

Sindh officials committed multiple violations while ‘gifting’ 20,000 acres of land to DHA for yet another housing

Published 18 Dec, 2017 07:02am

Buried in concrete

Karachi’s green spaces are being pawned off for profit.

Published 08 Oct, 2017 03:58am

Census 2017: How can flawed results have any credibility?

The provisional census results released thus far appear to be marred by major anomalies and statistical errors.

Updated 21 Sep, 2017 07:34am

Analysis: Census — the unfulfilled promise

KARACHI: The Sixth Decennial Population and Housing Census is all set to begin today — after a cumulative delay of...

Updated 29 Jun, 2017 09:27pm

Perween Rahman’s murder: an unfinished story

The real culprits behind the prominent social activist’s slaying four years ago are yet to be unmasked

Published 13 Mar, 2017 07:10am

Population census 2017: Why this extensive exercise will be defective

Dawn's special report on the sixth population and housing census.

Published 13 Feb, 2017 08:42am

Remembering Deputy Commissioner Osama Warraich — a champion for Chitral's welfare

Osama, his wife and only child died in Pk-661 crash near Havelian.

Updated 09 Dec, 2016 11:47am

Historical follies – Where Pakistan went wrong in negotiating the Indus Waters Treaty

The friction between India and Pakistan over sharing of started on April 1,1948.

Published 31 Oct, 2016 03:57pm

Historical follies – Where Pakistan went wrong in negotiating the Indus Waters Treaty

The friction between India and Pakistan over sharing of started on April 1,1948.

Published 31 Oct, 2016 03:51pm

International Law on Water Rights

International law provides precedents on water use rights and obligations for both upper and lower riparians.

Published 31 Oct, 2016 03:50pm

Speech by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Riparian Rights in International Law

Address given at Sukkur Law College on April 24, 1961

Published 31 Oct, 2016 03:48pm

Assessing India's water threat

Can Modi turn off the taps and choke Pakistan’s rivers?

Updated 24 Apr, 2025 10:01am

Qayyumabad’s long battle against DHA

DHA Karachi’s real estate interests haven't spared land set aside for amenities. The housing authority denies wrongdoing

Updated 22 Aug, 2016 05:03pm