Routable Karachi Map courtesy of Pkmaps.freeforums.org

The zip files available for download on the site are custom made for Garmin GPS units. To install this map on your Garmin device you can either download the Mapsource version or copy the gmapsupp.img directly on your supplemental map file. If you have a non-Garmin device there are a few help files on the forums to help install the same Karachi map on alternate devices.

Routbale Map of Karachi available for free

Attached are a few screen shots of this amazing routable map navigating through the streets of Karachi

The Elbow Room occupies a small decent and elegant corner in the Domestic Lounge of Karachi Airport

All bikes and bikers are free to join and play an essential part in promoting our nation and saving our environment!

Second Critical Mass Cycle Ride
On Sunday, 18th October 2009
At 07:30 a.m.
Approximately 7 km.

Starting at Mc Donald Sea view, Karachi down towards village and back.. families and children welcome. Bring your own bike and some water

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Wear Your Pride

I recently met this legendary Journalist Chand Nawab a few days back, his shot to fame was this TV blooper which was recorded almost a year back at the Karachi Railway station. The video finding its way online was a prank by his colleagues and for a good few months Chand Nawab was in a fit of rage at his friends having humiliated him. But now he instead enjoys narrating this story in his own unique hilarious way, which in retrospect believe is worth another youtube clip for the legendary Chand Nawab and his KARACHI blooper

Newly painted monument - seemingly looks better than the old cement grey look

The CDGK is busy installing a set of high tech security / traffic cameras on the junction of Shahrah-e-Faisal & Tipu Sultan

Voice of the Civil Society

The time has come to support and help our countrymen in a more consolidated manner. These are citizens of Pakistan, who are desperate and living under miserable conditions in camps and make-shift abodes. Visualize an environment where they don’t have a roof over their head and no basic needs (food, medicines and education for their children) being fulfilled.

PLEASE DON’T LET THE TALIBAN’S TURN AROUND AND TELL THE IDP’S THAT THEY WERE ABANDONED BY THE CIVIL SOCIETY!!! We have done the easy part by lodging our protest to the relevant authorities against the Taliban’s, but the actual people suffering need our help. So here is the plan;

Donation camp at the Carlton Hotel – Karachi, from May 15 to 17 of May, 2009 (Between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m).

They will be collecting the following items for the internally displaced people (IDP) from Sawat, Buner and other areas who are pouring in to Islamabad and other areas. WE WILL BE MORE AFFECTIONATE TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS, WHO OFFER CASH DONATIONS!!!!!

Tea
Dry milk
Sugar
Pulses
Edible Oil (sachets)
Flour bags
Rice
Biscuits
Candies for Children
Soaps
Soaps for washing clothes etc.

For Children:
Story Books
Coloring Books
Coloring materials
Copies & pencils
Bedding (Gudda’s, pillows & sheets etc.)

Medicines:
Pain Killers
Cough syrups
Bandages
Antibiotic oral medicines and for external use (e.g. Furecin powder)

Tents:
For this commodity, we are looking at cash donations as these would be bought on the spot.

We have found individuals working (round the clock) in Islamabad, who will go where the IDP’s are located and distribute the above mentioned items to the best of their capability (They have honed their skills of distribution from their experience gained at the time of the Kashmir earthquake.)

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Mission Rescue Pakistan

PAF Base Faisal & at Delton’s (main kh-Shaheen)
on May 16 & 17th.

They’ll be requiring following items:-

1. Tents
2. Clothes
3. Kitchen Items
4. Food

Members, who want to help & support through Cash please note down the account number:-

MRP (Mission Rescue Pakistan)
Account Number: 005028071-001
Bank: HSBC (Schon Circle Branch)

For any more details please feel free to contact us.

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Numbers:
Fawad Afridi: +92321-2437256
Naveed Mansoor: +92334- 3893330
Talha: +92321-2007664
Arshad: +92321-8227388

Illeglally Parked car outside the Private Ward of AKU

AKU was once perceived as a disciplined, professional and caring hospital. It followed rules, provided excellent health care services and even operated a good patient welfare scheme. We were proud of the great hospital built by Prince Karim Aga Khan in the middle of the town.

The AKU has gradually chosen to bid farewell to its founding principles and make compromises, more so when it comes to dealing with the powerful and influential urban militants.

AKU rules clearly require that weapons shall not be brought inside the hospital and vehicles shall be parked only at the designated parking places. There are two guards who are full time on duty to make sure that the vehicles move off and do not park in front of the private ward pick and drop area. The rule is uniformly applied to all citizens. However it is conveniently waived off for ministers, unregistered vehicles and for those who come accompanied by weapon carrying goons.

At 1845 hours on May 13, 2009, there were two vehicles parked in-front of the Private Ward’s pick and drop area. One vehicle had a fishy illegal number plate giving irrelevant information (Chief Of Jhalayan, Minister S&GAD), the other had three armed guards.

Chief Of Jhalayan, Minister S&GAD, Govt of Baluchistan

On questioning as to why do they not act to get the two vehicles removed from the no-parking location, the AKU guards showed the same self acquired helplessness that has become the standard Pakistani excuse for not performing one’s duty.

I then called up the AKU security chief and asked him to do his duty to get the vehicles removed and to also report the matter to the Police for people bringing weapons and unregistered vehicles to the hospital. (besides refusing to follow hospital rules of parking)

I spent another 40 minutes in the hospital. The vehicles remained parked where they were, and the hospital administration, devoid of good sense and good guts kept looking in the other direction. That much for the finest health care organisation of Pakistan. Would some one please pass on this email to the HH.

Also posted on Teeth Maestro