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An epidemic of street crime
EDITORIAL: One wonders whether there will ever come a time when the people of Karachi can go about their daily lives without having to worry about being robbed, assaulted or, worse, killed for their possessions. For years, street crime has been an almost inescapable feature of life in the city, with no end in sight to the staggering toll it continues to exact in lives and livelihoods. The latest figures offer a grim measure of how entrenched the problem has become: residents lost valuables worth an estimated Rs2.27 billion to street criminals in the first eight months of 2026. Police data show...
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