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Hans India
3 days ago
- Hans India
536 people killed in accidents in Karachi in 2025
As many as 536 people have been killed in traffic accidents in Pakistan's Karachi so far in 2025. Among those deceased, 60 deaths occurred in accidents involving trucks, the police said on Sunday. Numerous traffic accidents have occurred in Karachi in the ongoing year, frequently leading to deaths, which has resulted in enraged people setting fire to the vehicles involved in the incident on many occasions, Pakistani daily The News International reported. Elaborating on accident-related statistics, the police said 25 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2025, where buses were involved, 11 people were killed in accidents involving minibuses, six involving coaches, while 48 people lost their lives in accidents involving trailers. Meanwhile, 44 people were killed in accidents involving water tankers, 20 people involving dumpers, while six people were killed in accidents involving oil tankers. Furthermore, 15 people died in collisions of vans, five in jeeps and 58 in accidents involving car collisions, according to police. The accidents involving high-speed dumper trucks have caused the deaths of several people and injured others in recent months, prompting authorities to announce various safety measures. This alarming frequency of accidents has sparked calls for stricter implementation of existing traffic laws and significant improvements to the city's road infrastructure to stop further tragedies. On Sunday, two siblings were killed in an accident at the Rashid Minhas Road, after which an angry mob set fire to at least seven dumpers. The deceased were identified as Mahnoor, 22, and her younger brother, Ahmed Raza, 14. The accident took place in the night between Saturday and Sunday in Karachi's Federal B Area, where the truck ran over the motorcycle, Geo News reported. Addressing reporters, SP Gulberg Iqbal Shaikh said that a father, along with his son and daughter, were travelling on the motorcycle at the time of the accident. According to the officer, the residents assaulted the dumper truck driver before he was taken into custody in an injured state. He further stated that all three people were injured, but the siblings succumbed.
The Guardian
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
Since their formation in 2020, the Daytimers collective have been trying to establish a new imagining of British south-Asian music. Taking their name from the daytime parties held by second-generation immigrants in the late 80s and 90s, Daytimers have spent the past five years throwing raucous parties of their own, with residents such as Rohan Rakhit and Mahnoor mixing everything from jungle and Bollywood vocals with dubstep, grime instrumentals and Punjabi folk for a new generation born and raised in the UK. Following in the footsteps of their Asian underground forebears such as Nitin Sawhney and Talvin Singh, who mixed the sounds of 90s Britain with thesouth-Asian music they grew up listening to, Daytimers' latest compilation has 13 south-Asian producers remixing Bollywood hits from the Sony India catalogue with an eye on today's dancefloor culture. There is ample bass-weight across the record's 10 tracks, with German-Pakistani producer Zeeshan's take on the score of 2022 Tamil film Vikram transforming the original's keening vocal melody into a chipmunk snippet skittering over an ominous, growling bassline and siren-like synths. Daytimers co-founder Provhat, meanwhile, layers a thunderous jungle breakbeat over the wedding classic Suraj Hua Maddham – sure to turn receptions into raves – and Rea's take on Anirudh Ravichander's Dippam Dappam flips the cinema standard into a rumbling Afro-house groove. While certain edits work less well – with Baalti's take on AR Rahman's Tere Bina merely speeding up the original over two-step drum programming and Zenjah and Mrii's version of Where's the Party Tonight struggling to wrangle the kitsch, Vengaboys-style vocal of the 2006 Bollywood original into a UK garage groove – the majority of the album produces remarkable rearrangements. Reframing this nostalgic cinema music for the modern dancefloor, Alterations proves there is still plenty of space for future generations of diaspora artists to celebrate and find inspiration in their heritage. Ugandan rapper MC Yallah's second album with Berlin producer Debmaster, Gaudencia (Hakuna Kulala), is typically abrasive and full of irrepressible energy. Employing a languorous flow over Debmaster's growling beats, Yallah spits venomously on Muchaka while showcasing scatter-gun dexterity on highlight Kekasera. Iraqi vocalist Hamid al-Saadi's first record of traditional maqam music in over 25 years, Maqam Al-Iraq (Maqam Records), is a delight. Soaring over intricate santour lines, Saadi's sprawling, 20-minute compositions expand on a centuries-old tradition through his indefatigable voice. Syrian producer Khaled Kurbeh releases the ambient electronic album Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh (Research Records). Whispers of guitar strumming and washes of melody create an imaginative and sometimes ominous palette – a sense of beauty bordering on dread. This article was amended on 4 July to correct Zeeshan's nationality from British to German-Pakistani.
