Have you wondered why most of the under-belly of Baloch colony flyover is blocked for traffic. Well, it is because of the creeping encroachment out there. And it gets really dirty when it rains hard as rain water gets blocked. It is really unfortunate that such a prime place is being encroached upon right under the nose of the administration and nobody seems to care. Mr. Mustafa Kamal, the mayor of Karachi, who jumps around building roads and bridges and parks, is requested to wrest this land from land mafia before it is too late.

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AVARI TOWERS
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 799 + Tax (Poolside)
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 950 + Tax (Sky Grill)
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 899 + Tax (Asia Live)
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 699 + Tax (Khorshed Mahal for Corporate Groups)

Avari Towers will donate 100 Rupees from each Iftar sold to several nominated Charities.

MARRIOTT HOTEL
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 950 + Tax (Poolside)
SEHRI: Rs. 500 + Tax (Nadia Café)

PEARL CONTINENTAL HOTEL
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 850 + Tax (Poolside)
SEHRI: Rs. 550 + Tax (Marco Polo)

SHERATON HOTEL
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 825 + Tax (Special Set-up in the Parking Area)
SEHRI: Rs. 550 + Tax (Cozmo until the 10th of Ramadan; Fanoos after the 10th)

CHINA TOWN
IFTAR BUFFET: Rs. 499 + Tax
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CDGK has done excellent job by continuing with the development work even with a political chaos. Jail Road leading towards Hassan Square is one such example. While one can definitely argue about the standard of the work (especially flyovers) one should appreciate the efforts put in by CDGK to give Karachi a green look.
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In a country where DICTATORs are treated as hero’s, and ironically by educated, you cannot expect much when you talk about accountability. A land where thugs become leaders, accountability is an alien specie. While Mr. Musharraf is playing golf and will soon prepare some lectures for his foreign tours and earn some dollars by selling his lie-crafted visions his democratic-child ZARDARI is all set to continue his left over work aka the promise-dodge-next policy. Had this been real, pakistan would be have been a different story altogether. In such dismay this is the maximum people on street could do to manage a smile.

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well, ramzan are here and everywhere you go, you see a flock of people shopping at the last minute for sehri and iftaar and general grocery items.

myself and family being amongst the lot, we decided to head for makro for the month’s supply of groceries. to my surprise, the huge store was flocked to the brim so much that it seemed impossible to traverse inside.

once the hunt for parking was over, i set upon the search for a cart, as the security by the escalators cleared that carts were impossible to find. i went back to the parking area hoping to snag a cart as some shoppers stack their cars. however, i soon found out that all the carts were already booked by the time they got to their cars. so, i moved towards the main entrance, only to find out that the situation was the same.

as i moved closer and closer to the escalators, i realized that the carts were actually booked inside the store. new shoppers would come out with the leaving shoppers, follow them to their cars, help them unload and go back inside for their shopping.

i decided to leave at this time as i had spent a good half hour with no success.

what’s your experience of ramzan preps going on?

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After a long long effort to control traffic flow within the Defence Stadium circle area, the DHA has, after complete lack of success, launched its final assault on vehicles that break the traffic flow pattern that has been set up to eliminate congestion in the area.

Tyre killers

These tyre killers will puncture the tyres of cars that come from the wrong direction, while allowing the correct drivers to pass through.

I spoke with an engineer there, who told me that during the past week, DHA had received 4 complaints from angry drivers who lost their tyres to this device. Its interesting how people can call up and complain about something thats a consequence of violating the law!

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Finally someone speaks the truth and it took the people of this city to make them come out with it.  As an angry mob took to the streets of Karachi on Thursday officials of the KESC admitted that they had purposely lowered the production capacity of the Bin Qasim power plant to save them from buying furnace oil.

The direct result of this action saw a period of 10-12 hr load shedding per day for Karachites over the last week or so. According to sources, this emerged during a briefing to Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro, Pakistan People’s Party leader Taj Haider and Sindh Minister for Industries Rauf Siddiqui, who joined them later.

The speaker later told the public that KESC officials also confessed to having prior knowledge of the incoming gas cuts due to maintainence and did absolutely nothing to safeguard their supplies of gas or stock up for this period.

I hope the government has some kind of a plan to rectify this purposely created shortage of electricity soon or the people sitting out fanning themselves on the roads will head to their offices to demand answers themselves.

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This is just being reported that the famous fashion designer Sheikh Amer has been found shot dead in his home in Defence today. With a heavy heart Karachi mourns the loss of a brilliant fashion designer. May His Soul Rest In Peace

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yet another MNA who thinks he is above law. Spotted this car at teen talwar which has no number plate, just an MNA plate in PPP colors. Looks like parliamentarians cannot be bothered with following law, they just make them.

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As reported in Daily Times today:

By Nayel Noorani

KARACHI: Two studies conducted by faculty and students at the Aga Khan University into the attitudes toward suicide bombing among educated people in Karachi and in the tribal areas showed surprisingly divergent results.

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ExtraCorp Announces a fundraiser movie Screening, “BATMAN-THE DARK KNIGHT” at The PALPA CLUB (Near Acropolis) on the 30th of August 2008, at 8:00 PM Sharp.

ExtraCorp an organization committed to empower people with disabilities by training and inculcating entrepreneurship skills in them.

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Originally uploaded by *abro*

Abro shares his comment on this thought provoking picture taken on Seaview early in the morning

We have seen beautiful pictures of Seaview at Karachi, here I am sharing pictures I have taken early morning after 5 a.m. Peoples mostly come here in the evenings, nights and specially in weekends. But if you go early morning, you find how people behave with the sea they pretend to love.

There are so many homeless people living here. They come from all over the country and in days/nights they sale things like food items and other stuff. You find them sleeping on these benches. And dirt all over is obvious. Some time I feel how Sea tolerates these things and give happiness in return to all people who come here to enjoy!

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