Posted in Karachi, Pakistan on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Its been hardly a month since the inaugration of the much hyped Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim. Have a look at it today, courtesy of Metropolitan, DAWN.
The less solid material like wood or metal might be considered going bad due to salty sea breeze, but not the solid pillars! Phew! Who should we blame here?
Posted in Karachi, Life on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
So the day finally came when I took my elder one to the newly opened park. To my surprise there is provision for parking for the visitors. But strangely no entrance to the park from the parking area. You have to walk all the way back to the entrance (too steep for walking) of parking [...]
Posted in Karachi on February 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Two days back i took my children and nephews to visit the much awaited opening of another park at Clifton. Much to the disappointment of everyone we were told that it is yet to be opened for public as “sadar saheb” will be inaugurating it. Frankly speaking it had been attracting me for quite some [...]
Posted in Karachi, Life, Pakistan, Politcs on January 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yes.. how many more lives of innocent people shall we forgo before we have some peace around us. How much more time do we require before our children can play around safely in streets, families move around with no fear being robbed, kidnapped, or even shot by a stray bullet not meant for them.
Muharram - [...]
Posted in Dengue Fever, Karachi, Pakistan on October 18, 2006 | No Comments »
The past few weeks has seen a growing number of Karachites getting infected by the deadly Dengue Virus. It is supposed to be spreading via bite of a specific kind of mosquito carrying the virus. Karachi has been the recent target of it.
Thanks to the local civic bodies for their excellent (read pathetic) work of [...]
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