#shara-e-faisal

[risingpakistan]

PAF Museum, Karachi

PAF Museum, Karachi is an Air Force museum and park situated near Karsaz Interchange on Shahra-e-Faisal in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

A majority of the aircraft, weapons and radar are displayed outside in the park but the main museum features all major fighter aircraft that have been used by the Pakistan Air Force. The museum also houses the Vickers VC.1 Viking used by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan and a Folland Gnat of Indian Air Force,[1] that landed in Pasrur in 1965 war. Also on display are the scale models of some WWI, WWII and modern aircraft and photo galleries of almost all the squadrons of PAF,

History

The museum was established in 1990 in two disused hangers in a remote part of the Base. The museum was expanded significantly from its humble beginnings in the period 1999 - 2004, additions include children playing areas, rides, and eateries.

Management

The museum is managed by a committee headed by the Air Officer Commanding Southern Air Command, however it is managed and run by the Deputy Chairman. Recently the Museum has been renamed as Historical Archives Section and given additional responsibilities for maintaining some documented history of the PAF. The Current Director / Deputy Chairman of the Museum is Gp Capt Usman Ghani.

[emergingkarachi]

Graveyards in Karachi

  In (Urdu: قبرستان ) is graveyard or cemetery . Qabar means grave There are total 182 graveyards in Karachi. Of them, 163 are for Muslims and 19 for non-Muslims. 70 fall under the control of City District Government Karachi, while 112 are looked after by associations.

Bagh-e-Ahmed (AMC Karachi Chapter Cemetery)

Essa Nagri Graveyard, Main Sir Shah Suleman Road (officially declared closed)

Gizri Cemetery, D.H.A.

Mewashah Cemetery (officially declared closed)

Jannatul Baqi Cemetery, Hub River Road, S.I.T.E.

Leemo Goth Graveyard, Haji Leemo Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal

Metrovill III Graveyard, Metrovill III, Gulshan-e-Iqbal

Mian Goth Cemetery, Malir

Model Colony Cemetery (New), Malir

Model Colony Cemetery (Old), Malir

New Karachi Cemetery, New Karachi

Old Morraro Cemetery, S.I.T.E.

P.E.C.H.S. Cemetery, Tariq Road (officially declared closed)

Paposh Nagar Cemetery (officially declared closed)

Sakhi Hassan Cemetery, North Nazimabad (officially declared closed)

Peer Bukhari Graveyard, Mannoo Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal

Pehalwan Goth Graveyard, Pehalwan Goth, Gulistan-e-Johar

Saudabad Cemetery, Malir (officially declared closed)

Shah Faisal Cemetery(Colony Gate), Shahrah-e-Faisal (officially declared closed)

Shanti Nagar Graveyard, Dalmia Road, Shanti Nagar

Wadi-e-Hussain Cemetery, Super Highway (Wadi-e-Hussain.com)

Ali Bagh Graveyard, Naya abad Liyari

Ismail Goth Graveyard, Landhi No.2

Mula Bux Graveyard, Redhi Goth, Landhi

Mewa Shah Graveyard

Christian

Gora Kabristan, Shahrah-e-Faisal.

Jewish

Bani Israel Graveyard

Zoroastrian (Parsi)

Tower of Silence, Mehmoodabad

[emergingkarachi]

Shara-e-Faisal

Shara-e-Faisal (Urdu: شارع فیصل ‎) is one of the major boulevards in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is named after King Faisal (Shah Faisal) of Saudi Arabia. Shah Faisal Colony, a suburb close to Karachi Airport, was also named after Shah Faisal. The former name of Shara-e-Faisal was Drigh Road.

Most national and multinational companies' offices, schools, shopping plazas, banks and institutes are close to Shara-e-Faisal. Shara-e-Faisal (Arabic for "Faisal Road") is also known as Shahrah-e-Faisal (Persian for "Faisal Highway").

Landmarks

Quaid-e-Azam International Airport

Jinnah Terminal (Hajj Terminal)

Pakistan Air Force Museum

Drigh Road Railway Station

Ayesha Bawani Academy

Karachi Grammar School

Faisal Cantonment

Shah Faisal Town

Link roads

Main National Highway

Rashid Minhas Road

Karsaz Road

Korangi Road

Dunya tv Karachi Bureau office at

Razi road off Shahra-e-faisal

[emergingkarachi]

The Gora Qabaristan

The Gora Qabaristan (Urdu: گورا قبرِستان; also spelled as Gora Kabristan), or Gora Cemetery, literally transliterated as Fair skinned graveyard is Karachi's only operational Christian cemetery. The original consecration of the Karachi Christian Cemetery was in 1845 during colonial rule but there is a tombstone set in the wall near the main gate of the cemetery bearing the date 1843.

After the partition of India, the British High Commission in Karachi invited the members of the various Christian bodies to form the Karachi Christian Cemeteries Board

Location

It is located on main Shahrah-e-Faisal.

Division

Until around 1981, the cemetery was divided into two parts, Protestant and Catholic. However, since then, the wall separating them was removed and the two merged.

Management

The Karachi Christian Cemetery Board manages its affairs.

Over time the condition of the cemetery has deteriorated. In 1995, a group called CARE (Caring, putting into Action, and Restoring the Environmental degradation of the cemetery), made up of people from all parishes and churches, made it their objective to make the cemetery a clean and peaceful resting place for the departed.

Among the problems identified requiring attention were: stopping the continuous flow of sewage into the cemetery grounds; the cutting and clearing of weeds almost 8 feet high, removal of garbage piled up at least 3 feet high over an area of almost 2000 square yards along the West wall; the construction of a concrete wall (estimated to be 6,000 feet), and a permanent pumping station to drain out rain water during the monsoons.[2]

In 2006 the cemetery continues to be desecrated with boys of the surrounding localities playing cricket and football here causing damage to the graves.[3]

Burial services

From 1885, burial services have been performed by a family firm, Anthony Coutinho & Company. The office still exists on Shahrah-e-Iraq, near St. Patrick's Cathedral, but it has all but stopped functioning. More recently, the St. Joseph's Association, a diocesan organization that organises burials has taken over this function.[4].[1]