Developments in Karachi
Karachi is located on the coastline of Sindh province in southern Pakistan, along a natural harbour on the Arabian Sea.
Karachi is ranked as a Beta world city in the GaWC index,[1] and is widely recognized as the prime financial and transport hub of Pakistan.
[3][4]The M-9 (Urdu: موٹروے 9) is a 136-km long 6-lane motorway connecting the cities of Hyderabad and Karachi in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
The building consists of 10 floors of serviced corporate offices, 40 floors of serviced apartments, Pakistan's highest located terraced restaurant and South Asia's first double-decker high speed elevator along with a shopping mall.
[5] The Green Line extends from Municipal Park to Surjani Town at a total length of 21 km (13 mi).
Engineering Associates were contracted as the designers and supervision consultants for Green Line while a Consortium of "Ernest & Young", "Exponent Engineers" & "Haider Mota & BNR" were contracted for "Transaction Advisory for Bus Operational Plan".
The expressway is being sold as the Southern alternative route for carrying traffic of the port and industrial areas to main highways which is untrue; it is an unfeasible and economically unviable infrastructure project being built for the convenience of high-income areas' commuters.
It is unlikely that 14km portion would be open for public on 14 August 2024 due to the on-going litigation on the EIA and the illegal sand mining of the river bed; further a Philippines based development agency has also opened up a complaint to investigate the environmental and social safeguards violations.
Existing railway tracks and 30 stations would be completely rebuilt on bridges for a modern driverless electric bullet train.
The KCR would be run by the Sindh Government through Karachi Urban Transport Corporation (KUTC).
The town has food streets, mosques, hospitals, educational institutions, a stadium, a zoo, highrise buildings, parks, monuments, recreational areas and much more.
Several meetings have been held between Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Syed Faisal Ali Subzwari and China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) Vice President Ye Chengyin at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs.
Development of Bundal Island offshore DHA Phase-8 was proposed by owner of Bahria Town Malik Riaz in 2013.
Widening of M-10 into 6 lanes was proposed by Mustafa Kamal of MQM but was never executed due to incompetent governments.
Multiple Desalination plants on western coast near KANUPP were proposed by then mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal in 2009.
If constructed, these desalination plants would provide upto 300 Million gallons of water per day hence eradicate water scarcity in western and southern parts of Karachi including Orangi Town, S.I.T.E industrial area, Lyari, Machar Colony, Sadar, Clifton and DHA.
The Federal Minister for Information Technology & Telecommunication will lay the foundation for the Karachi IT Park.
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) said that plans are in the works for the IT Park’s groundbreaking ceremony at Jinnah International Airport.
Ceremony will be attended by officials from South Korea, the Sindh government, the MoITT, and important business sector partners.
The federal government opted to build the IT Park near Jinnah International Airport, which is positioned in the heart of the metropolis’s commerce and economic district.
There will include offices, meeting rooms, a daycare facility, amenities, and a parking space in the structure.
