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World Teachers’ Day 2009
October 5 is Teacher’s Day in Pakistan. It recognizes the importance of teachers and attributes progress to the quality of teachers in Pakistan’s Educational System. There are approx 30,000 ghost schools in Pakistan. They exist on paper but not in reality. This ghost school is situated near baldia town Karachi with no teachers or students but some old furnisher and big China lock on the gate.
Government has increased the power tariff by 6 percent
Government has increased electricity rate by 6% but I have a 6-step formula for cheap electricity.
Step 1: Find a suitable place near electricity pole and place a bamboo as starting point.
Step 2: Place few more bamboos to take electric wire to your home without any clue left.
Step 3: If you find any place to plug your wire on pole just do it.
Step 4: Hurray you have configured a very cheap system power solution
Step 5: Just pay few hundred rupees to local KESC guys as service charges
Step 6: Relax and smile for the camera for this achievement.
2K ka akhri stop
These buses are so popular or people are out of ideas that people named places on the route number of these buses. for example “2K ka akhri stop” which is somewhere near sakhi hasan or “W11 ka akhri stop”
I don’t know how these buses get their names but it seems 2K inpiration is from K2.
For years I used my student card in these buses. We use to pay only 75 Paisa at that time.
Karachi Circular Railway
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council decided on Thursday to revive the Karachi Circular Railway as a modern commuter system at a cost of Rs128.5 billion.
The committee suggested dualisation of railway tracks with the provision of two dedicated tracks along the main lines from Karachi City station to Drigh Road.
The system will have advanced technology to provide facilities of international standard to around 700,000 daily commuters.
The Karachi circular railway, which was set up in the mid-60s, was shut down in 1997 when Pakistan Railways suffered huge losses.
Source : Dawn
Rain – Its coming !!!!!!
[ Image : Shariq ]
Just before and after the Cloudburst
It’s been beautiful weather all morning in Karachi. I got a chance to snap a few photographs immediately before and during the sudden cloudburst that took place at about 330pm today. Here are the sequential shots.
