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!

Jalo mat, kalay ho jaao gay

We have all seen “Mehnat Kar, hasad na kar” on buses, rickshaws, taxis etc, but today I saw a new one, and found it worth sharing.

“Jalo mat, kalay ho jaao gay”

Basically, what it means is “Don’t be jealous”, but the phrase in urdu “Jalo mat”, refers to the colloquial reference jealousy in Urdu, which is in its meaning, is identical to the act of burning.

The phrase above says “Don’t be jealous or you will turn black”. The metaphor is the burning bit.

The drive is aimed at creating a culture of caring for the city amongst its citizens as against the current trend of complaints and lack of ownership to the city’s issues. Issues like olunteering for traffic management, identifying and managing cleanliness issues, helping keeping the city green etc are on top of the list.

Enrollments will commence from tomorrow morning at Civic Centre. All people who enroll for this will be given a “city owner” badge and will become part of its coordnated database.

Come people! wake up! the city needs you. This is your chance to help make things better!

Incidentally, the truth of this news came to test in the next 5 mins.

Ladies and gentlemen, the heavens are pouring again, very gently.

Enjoy!

Gloves and bags will be provided to volunteers and garbage collection trucks have been arranged for. All that is needed is for you to come for as little, or as much time as you can spare on that day, even if just to clean one square foot of the beach. We would like to have as much participation as possible so please invite your friends, family, or anyone else you think would like to contribute just a little time to make a difference to our city. Please forward this to as many people as you can.

Help keep Karachi clean!
Credit: Arsalaan Haleem

Seems a bit shady to me….what kind of marketing financial institution is going out and publicly asking peole to come have their debts written off?

This might sound like a new series, and may even be grounds for one. I am trying to highlight weird structures/systems within the city that might serve no purpose at all yet are there, for some reason, to make a statement.

This is an automated gate installed at Khayaban e Ittehad, DHA.

Why does this busy road have an automatic barrier?

Liberty Books on Boat Basin is holding a massive discount sale with prices slashed upto 75%. Great deal for book lovers!
The place is apparently very small and till today, even I did not know it existed.

This news update was brought to you courtesy of Misha (ex met blogger).

Happy shopping!

More reports are pouring in, and we will try to keep you updated. But if you do have updates, do share with us in the comments section.

This did result in a breakdown longer than the usual 2 hour span at my end and from a couple of discussion I have ad so far, the issue has not yet been resolved.

I could not find it on any of the newspapers though. Strange.