Comments on: Karachi Before 1900

By: zeeshan

zeeshan — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:11:21 +0000

I am actually blind here! No way this could be Karachi. It’s so beautiful, so peaceful and well-planned. I wish it were like that even now! But like someone has already mentioned in a post above… “Karachi had to cater to the MILLIONS of Afghan Refugees”

By: Nuha

Nuha — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:01:40 +0000

Irfan, there’s nothing wrong with mud houses; they’re much better suited to Karachi’s climate than those awful concrete monsters that are like a plague across the city.

By: irfan bham

irfan bham — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:34:43 +0000

the pics are awesome..the city was so clean and properly planned.Although modernization and development has a cost and we dont have mud houses in urban areas anymore but the cost in terms of beauty, cleanliness,serenity, planning and ever growing pollution is absolutely unbearable.It simply shows that expansion of the metropolis without any proper planning is a game of corruption so tightly knit in all norms of our every day life and the best part is…we cant do anything about it..but suffer.

By: wasiq

wasiq — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:49:25 +0000

that is so not fair….i was saving it for today.:-p

By: Khekhe

Khekhe — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:05:23 +0000

This is Saddar, Gym Khana and Empress Market? Wow. I feel alien to this city now. I feel like I don’t know this place at all.

By: mansoor

mansoor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:43:42 +0000

lovely post sufi!!

By: talal

talal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:12:16 +0000

its very difficult for karachi especially, but the time will come when pakistan will experience the same simplicity and clarity in its planning and architecture!.. ssss….it has been done before and it can be done again..

By: Sufi

Sufi — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:43:55 +0000

pph, I have a good feeling that your grandkids will surely have better things to do than to listen your bs :P

By: Adnan Siddiqi

Adnan Siddiqi — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:30:24 +0000

Modern doesn’t mean mismanaged and unorganized. I think everyone here is talking about a discplined city rather an ancient one.

By: Poo Poo head

Poo Poo head — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:24:25 +0000

After 50 years, when my grand children would see pics of San Francisco , they would say how much SF has changed. They would say it looked much peaceful then and I would say but you have modern life. You could reach from San Jose to San Francsico in 5 minutes and for me it was 90 minutes but then they would say say no your time was awesome and at that time I would say “pathetic” as I am saying right now.

Change is always for good and it is inevitable my friends.