Karachi Temperature Biography
Source (google.com.pk)Friday, January 03, 2014 - Karachi—Karachi had never been gripped in a freezing climatic situation but end of this past December and current January not only made the people realize the intensity and agony of the climate but added financial problems to their lives.
On Thursday (yesterday) the mercury dropped to just 17 Celsius in the evening at about 7 PM while the wind that blew at 27 knots per miles created a vacuum on city’s streets, which used to stay awake till Dawn. The people had despite the fact doubled their warm dresses covering them from all sides helped them very little to endure the bone-freezing chill.
The people, who lived in Karachi’s periphery like Gadap, Keamari, Surjani, Landhi and Baldia faced the devastation of the freezing chill most due to large open fields in close vicinity. On the other hand, Karachi’s North part that comparatively remained cooler even in scorching June and July was the seat of anguish for the residents of North Nazimabad and North Karachi. The profiteers that never let go any opportunity to loot the people made hay while Sun shone in lowest temperature. Prices of a normal woolen cap and muffler that ranged from Rs 100 to 150 was being sold for Rs 250-300 per piece.
The Lunda (Used) warm dresses such as leather jackets, cotton-stuffed tarpaulin-made jackets and fur-jackets escalated thrice as double and a jacket that was sold for Rs 200-300 was sold for Rs 500-700. Leather jackets and coats at Karachi’s Rex Centre were being sold for Rs 8000-12000 while those jackets either refurnished or re-stitched from Lunda leather jackets were priced for Rs 3500-4500. Artificial leather jackets and coats imported from China a month earlier were available for Rs 1500 but now were priced for Rs 3500.
Farm egg prices also increased by Rs 30 per dozen while eggs from domestic fowl were being sold with an increase of Rs40-60 in different localities.
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Today Karachi is Pakistan's premier port and metropolis, contributing about a quarter of the country's revenues and GDE While the Hindus of Karachi are now only a tiny fraction of what they used to be, there is still an influential Parsi community, although they too are diminished in number. DhunMai Dalai makes annual visits to her close relatives in Karachi, but says she doesn't recognize many new faces in the city. "In the early years, Parsis were respected and the community flourished. Today I am deeply saddened to see our community's population decline continuously, especially the youth." Today there are less than 2,000 Parsis left in Karachi--their numbers have come full circle--however, they are still influential, with a notable presence in the hotel business.
Most of Karachi's 1.5 crore denizens are outsiders--Mohajir and Punjabi--while barely 6 per cent are native Sindhis. According to Baloch, Urdu-speaking Muslims from India, Pathans, Memons, and Punjabis now live in areas like Lyari, Gadi Khato, Kharo Dar, and Burns Garden that were once dominated by Sindhis. He himself has shifted out of Lyari to Garden East nearby. "Sindhis have become a minority in Karachi," he says with great sadness in his voice. As a result, most of Karachi's residents are strangers to the city's history.
Consequently, for many decades, not much attention was paid to the conservation of colonial and indigenous heritage buildings in Karachi. However, the Heritage Foundation, which was established in 1981 by Suhail Lari, with his architect wife Yasmeen Lari, has documented pre-1947 buildings, and also drafted a law for their preservation which was passed by the Sindh Assembly in 1994. They also set up Karavan Karachi, a series of weekly entertainment events in front of prominent heritage buildings. With good public response, interest in the preservation of heritage architecture has increased.
Today the mansions in Amil Colony and Bunder Road Extension are still handsome, although somewhat haggard. The Sind Club is still the haunt of Karachi's elite; a large portrait of Sir Charles Napier adorns its dining hall. Napier Road, though, is home to Karachi's red-light district. Today there are Agra Colony and Aligarh Colony, and avenues named for Sir Muhammad Iqbal and Liaquat All Khan. And a road once named after Naomal Hotchand is now called Shah Waliullah Road. The Hindu cremation grounds in Lyari no longer exist--Bihar Colony stands in its place. But Lyari itself has become a haven for crime and drugs. The kutchi abadis crawl outwards into the desert, the walls around houses in Defence and Clifton grow higher and higher. And Karachi, the city that lives on the edge, continues to explode into the desert of Sindh.
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