Beginning of this month brought in some good news for the citizens of Karachi when President Zardari announced the “Green Karachi Project†which aimed at turning Karachi green by spending 22 billion rupees to make new parks and making the green belts actually green.
However, soon after there was a news report in which the [...]
I was coming back from Super Highway last Saturday night and had to use the Signal Free Corridor 2 from Sohrab Goth to Sharah-e-Faisal. Since I’ve been using SFC1 regularly I thought it’d be the same with this one, but boy was I wrong.
A few hundred meters onto it, there was a huge traffic [...]
Details of Green Karachi Project are trickling down. The 24 major roads which were mentioned in the project for the massive plantation drive have been identified as follows:
Super Highway (Sohrab Goth to Tool Plaza)
Northern Bypass
Link Road (Surjani to Super Highway via Maymar)
Link Road (North Karachi Power House to Super Highway near Bundo Khan Restaurant)
Hawksbay Road [...]
CDGK is planning on introducing e-ticketing for CNG buses that are to be launched next month. While government’s previous attempt at improving the conditions of buses and environment at the same time by encouraging private sector to invest in the CNG buses was a massive failure. This time around CDGK is planning on running the [...]
Last month I wrote about River Valley Park, a 4,432 acre park that was announced in June 2007 by the City District Government Karachi. Since then there have been various updates on and off, but in December 2008 it was announced that this project has been delayed due to the financial crisis faced by the [...]
People always complain that there’s nothing else to do in Karachi besides going out to eat. But this week they’ll have to eat up their words as well cuz this week is all about events.
First of all of course, Photo Club of Karachi is holding its first ever photography exhibition at Alliance Francaise. Then [...]
It looks like whenever something good happens in our country, which itself is a rarity, the people in power try to uproot it in such a way that no one thinks about doing it ever again.
Case in point is the existing system of the Local Government. It is one of the highlights of the [...]
