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Hamara Karachi festival ...
A KARACHI festival as an annual cultural event has been long overdue.it will start from January 7 in all 18 towns of the city and peak with three days of central festivities to be held in the old KMC building premises on January 16, 17, and 18 before its grand final on the 20th, he added.
If the Hamara Karachi festival becomes an annual feature, as announced by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad on Tuesday, it would be a major contribution to the cause of giving the citizens of the nation?s biggest city a ?we feeling?. Karachi?s image today is that of a violence-prone city. That is the reason why the federal government succumbs to pressures from foreign governments which insist that Karachi should not be on their visiting leaders? itinerary. Recently, President Hu Jintao of China, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Prince Charles and his wife visited Pakistan, but a visit to Karachi, with its long sea beach, boulevards and industrial and commercial hubs, was carefully avoided. Similarly, it takes great efforts on the part of the authorities to make international cricket teams play a five-day test in Karachi. This negative image is unfortunate and misplaced, for Karachi is not all violence. It still pulsates with life and with a vibrant culture that unfortunately has been overshadowed by the chaos of uncontrolled commercialism and an unabashed exploitation of its natural assets.
Today, Karachi is aptly called mini-Pakistan. People from all parts of the country - and even legal and illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, Bangladesh and Burma - have made it their home and contributed to the variety of its culture as seen in diversity in faces, languages, dresses, cuisines, ceremonies and customs and, of course, music and dances as seen at weddings. As for architecture, the Anglo-Mughal-style buildings, epitomised by the 75-year-old KMC building, still survive, despite decades of neglect. The festival should help foster a sense of belonging and a common identity among its 10 million-plus people, inculcate in them a pride of being Karachiites, and make every citizen conscious of his duty as an individual to make this city a better place with a harmonious society and a cleaner environment. One hopes the festival will become an annual affair, though it would be better if the festivities were week-long instead of being stretched over a fortnight.
If the Hamara Karachi festival becomes an annual feature, as announced by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad on Tuesday, it would be a major contribution to the cause of giving the citizens of the nation?s biggest city a ?we feeling?. Karachi?s image today is that of a violence-prone city. That is the reason why the federal government succumbs to pressures from foreign governments which insist that Karachi should not be on their visiting leaders? itinerary. Recently, President Hu Jintao of China, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Prince Charles and his wife visited Pakistan, but a visit to Karachi, with its long sea beach, boulevards and industrial and commercial hubs, was carefully avoided. Similarly, it takes great efforts on the part of the authorities to make international cricket teams play a five-day test in Karachi. This negative image is unfortunate and misplaced, for Karachi is not all violence. It still pulsates with life and with a vibrant culture that unfortunately has been overshadowed by the chaos of uncontrolled commercialism and an unabashed exploitation of its natural assets.
Today, Karachi is aptly called mini-Pakistan. People from all parts of the country - and even legal and illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, Bangladesh and Burma - have made it their home and contributed to the variety of its culture as seen in diversity in faces, languages, dresses, cuisines, ceremonies and customs and, of course, music and dances as seen at weddings. As for architecture, the Anglo-Mughal-style buildings, epitomised by the 75-year-old KMC building, still survive, despite decades of neglect. The festival should help foster a sense of belonging and a common identity among its 10 million-plus people, inculcate in them a pride of being Karachiites, and make every citizen conscious of his duty as an individual to make this city a better place with a harmonious society and a cleaner environment. One hopes the festival will become an annual affair, though it would be better if the festivities were week-long instead of being stretched over a fortnight.
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