Sindh's home minister has directed the police to step up their crackdown on street crime in Karachi, where mobile phone and motorcycle snatching remain a daily worry for residents.
Karachi's mayor has announced a new road link aimed at easing the daily traffic jams around Natha Khan, one of the busiest points on the city's main artery towards the airport.
Karachi police say they arrested more than 894 suspects in the past week and recovered 150 illegal weapons, 44 motorcycles and a quantity of drugs, according to a police spokesperson.
Pakistan has confirmed its seventh polio case of the year in a six-month-old boy from Karachi East district, the National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication announced on Monday.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department expects dry or mainly dry weather across most of the country from October 19 to 24, with only isolated light rain in Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral, Kashmir and upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
