Jubilee Cloth Market

Pakistan / Sind / Karachi /
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Coordinates:   24°51'54"N   67°1'9"E

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  • A Market on top of the open Sewerage. You can smell the methane very strongly. Only a failed state could allow this to happen.
  • There was a system of open storm drains, properly cemented, were spread through out prepartition Karachi, excluding the slums. The water was led to the sea when ever it rained. Instead of being maintained properly, with the influx more inhabitants, the drains were used for letting out sewerage. The shortsighted KMC, in search of cheap prime land, started covering the drains and building shops on them. A better term would be a "failed society". We all are guilty.
  • Very good comments onlooker, in my views the corruption came from the top, since no checks and balances it routed in the society.
  • In any democratic society checks and balances are a must. Those elected to run the affairs must be totally answerable to those who elected them. The rulers in this case were extremely short-sighted and went for quick political (and probably personal) gains, without taking into consideration the repercussion it might have for the future of a city which had just enough of open spaces then. A far greater problem I believe is the total isolation of the elected from people itself. They meet each other every four years.
  • hello it is a good place but not better than gulshan =D
  • Well when I was a child I lived on the top floor flat on Marshall st that was in the 60's, I also caught ringworm may be the water not so good, or he meat was not cooked properly. My mum took me back to England in 1968. I am surprised the place is still there, don't believe buildings he demolished in Karachi
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