The writer is an architect.
KARACHI’S annual GDP is $164 billion. This huge economy, its infrastructure, and relationships are heavily dependent on institutions and facilities that function from encroachments.
Cargo handling and storage; warehousing; wholesale markets; inter- and intra-city bus terminals; workshops and depots; spillover of bazaars and mandis; and the city’s huge street economy are all on encroached land, and there are many markets and government buildings on nullahs and elite societies, like the DHA and the KPT Officers Housing Society, that encroach on the drainage outlets to the sea. Health and education facilities are located on residential plots and so are eating and entertainment facilities of the rich, middle-class, and the poor. There are also residential and commercial buildings built on amenity plots, fully or partly, such as the Icon Tower, which have been purchased by the rich and middle-class families who had little or no knowledge of their illegali
Karachi
March 17, 2021
The Sindh cabinet on Tuesday decided to engage private hospitals and laboratories in Covid-19 mass vaccination in the province and to encourage the private health sector to import coronavirus vaccines, allocate human resources and establish vaccination centres, especially in Karachi.
The health department told the cabinet that during the pandemic, the provincial response to the novel coronavirus was characterised by mixed public and private delivery of care. The private health sector played a critical role in providing essential health services, especially when the public sector was so overwhelmed with patients.
On the receipt of the first consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine, the provincial government started its drive to inoculate frontline healthcare workers in the first phase. Recently, the vaccination of 60 plus people has been started, and in the next phase, mass vaccination of all people above 18 will be initiated. This will require the involvement
Sindh cabinet decides to engage private hospitals, labs for COVID-19 Mass Vaccination
Karachi, March 16, 2021 (PPI-OT): The provincial cabinet has passed a resolution reposing confidence and trust in Election Commission of Pakistan, its chairman and members and has called upon the federal government not to intervene in discharge of the constitutional obligations of the ECP. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at CM House on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by provincial ministers, advisor law, chief secretary and concerned secretaries.
COVID Mass Vaccination: The Sindh Cabinet has decided to engage private hospitals and laboratories in COVID-19 Mass Vaccination programme and encourage the private health sector to import COIVID-19 vaccine, allocate human resources and establish vaccination centers, especially in Karachi.
The cabinet meeting, held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at CM House, was attended by provincial ministers, law adviser, chief secretary and secretaries concerned. File photo courtesy of the CM House
KARACHI: The provincial cabinet on Tuesday passed a resolution reposing confidence and trust in the Election Commission of Pakistan, its chairman and members and called upon the federal government not to intervene in discharge of its constitutional obligations.
The cabinet meeting, held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at CM House, was attended by provincial ministers, law adviser, chief secretary and secretaries concerned.
Bahria Town Karachi’s outline superimposed on satellite imagery of New York to give a sense of the spatial scale of the project. A land use change over such a large area is not a part of any official plan | Mapping by Rida Khan (Advocacy planner, urban designer)
Every day in the print and electronic media there is news about the terrible physical, social and municipal governance issues of Karachi and how they affect the lives of ordinary citizens. These conditions are blamed on a variety of factors, most of them political in nature. It is argued that if a proper local government system is implemented, these problems will be overcome.