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Look who paid us a Snapping Visit Last year

So Karachiites, you always wondered why does our nice little town looks so perched and petrified from Google Earth, right?

The Last time the Digital Globe Satellite opened its aperture it was December of 2004. This is when my first employer Satcomm Broadband ordered Digital Globe for a 60cm resolution image of Karachi. In case you are wondering, a 60cm resolution for a Satellite Image means, 60cm on Ground = 1 pixel on the Satellite image. The lower it goes the better and the more refine the image becomes, for instance the US Depart of Defense uses a 5mm image for snooping down on you (off-course they have infra red, thermal and x-ray lenses too, I wonder if a hot broad at Langley has a secret crush on watching me in x-ray vision)

Yeh, I am absolutely trying to imply that the Google Earth Image of Karachi that you have been viewing for the past 4 years, has something got to do with me.

How it reached there, well, We ordered Digital Globe for a 60cm resolution image covering around 900 sqkm of Karachi stretching from North Karachi to Southern most tip of DHA phase 8 in longitude, and from Landhi to Eastern Tip of Kemari in Latitude, that had a price tag of somewhere around Rs. 210,000/-.. That image resided in the repository of Digital Globe, one year later Google bought stakes in Digital Globe and Keyhole Technologies and hence acquired the entire Satellite Image Repository and stitched it together to give you a single representation of the entire planet.

Every part is shown in whatever resolution is available in the repository, for instance Karachi has a 60cm resolution image, but Hyderabad has a 250cm resolution image and the area in between has a 800cm image available, when this picture will be stitched together, you get to see the details on each areas according to its available resolution.

Well, brace yourselves, the bird in the sky has opened its aperture looking down at us on 12th May 2008, this image has recently been updated on Google Earth. I am posting the pretty pictures,

Look how much has our city changed in the recent year, this image is updated to show the Signal Free Corridor 1 in 2008 May, and signs of Signal Free Corridor 2 in making, and ever since then Karachi has already added Signal Free Corridor 3 as well as a completed Signal Free Corridor 2, and now is working on Signal Free Corridor 4. In the Past 4 years 322 new roads have been constructed and a lot of new bridges and underpasses being added to the whole scenery, And I am sure everyone has lost count of the number of new parks being added to the city, I am sure they have crossed a total of 100 new parks, and building yet even more.

If they snap the city from up there again, they will find it significantly changed, yet again, over the past 18 months!!!!

One man responsible for all of this, Mustafa Kamal and his team, in addition of all of the above, lets not forget that he has added over 20 state of the art hospitals specializing in heart diseases and Kidney diseases, neurology and Dental sciences. This goes with the addition of newly built, in public-private partnership, Schools, Colleges and Technical Institutions, and literally, the list is quite endless, if you start counting the Water Supply Projects of Pipelines and Reservoirs in terms of K-3 and newly planned K-4.

The attachd images are that of Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim, Schon Circle, KPT Interchange, Karsaaz Flyover and Creek Vista Complex

Thanks a whole lot Mr. Kamal

         

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Muttahida Quami Movement (M.Q.M.) : Part of Zionism or similar to them ?

Usually, political parties in Pakistan don't follow much from the example of other political parties of the outside world. If that would be the case, some traces of democracy can be found in the internal organization of any of these parties today. But, surprisingly, a relatively smaller party, thanks to the dictator, which is not that small anymore especially in the term of number of seats in the national assembly, acted completely different in this manner.They tried to follow the strategy of so far the most successful movement of zionists in the world. Zionists created the impression that they suffered tremendously under the hands of the fascist regime of hitler. They blew the event of holocaust out of proportion. Though, history has many doubts over the reality of that event but they never allowed anyone to raise those doubts at a larger scale. Ahmedinejad, president of Iran, tried unsuccessfully to insitigate the students of a university in America in his talk to them to start research on these doubts. Still as a consequence, Ahmedinejad becomes persona-non-grata for international conventions and organizations. And Even if he finds his way to any of the world conferences, his speech is bycotted by many participants over there. An example of that we noticed in our very recent past, in the world conference against racism. Zionists, then make the world believe that they are oppressed & innocent, and therefore cannot harm anyone as they themselves have the history of horrendous sufferings. For this, they used variety of tools but Media proved to be the most effective one in fooling the masses of the world in general, and the west in particular. This helped them in getting the license of killing anyone anywhere. So far their most favourite target are innocent poor Palestinians. Lebanese are second on the list. These are the direct sufferings. There is also a list of indirect sufferings from them on the rest of the world. Their aggression goes unchecked in the media, no one dares questioning them about their actions. If some quarters of media, without fearing the backlash, gathers some courage to ask them easy questions, they cry foul at what was being doing with them in the past, and everything settles in their favour.

 MQM also, adopted the same strategy in the political arena of Pakistan. They are basically bunch of goons, spreading terror in the main city of Pakistan, Karachi. But, they are so disciplined and organized that one can rightly call them a C-company (read crime company) . The command of this company is in the hands of the DON Altaf Hussain, living in a political asylum in Britain. He remains successful in operating this company remotely, by managing to strike fear in the hearts of the members of the company through the stories circulating among them of the horrible examples he made of those who dared to challenge his authority. Although, MQM likes to call itself a political party but their acts are more criminal than political. They have killed hundreds of innocent youngsters, political workers just because they voiced their opinions different of them.

For quite some years, people of Pakistan are experiencing a strange situation. MQM raises alarm bells on some not so popular issues, if no one bothers or pay attention, Karachi starts burning. Poor citizens of Karachi are being killed in dozens in the riots so far. Except that someone influential dont pay heed to the MQM's point of view, one cant be able to understand any other reasons for these riots. If anyone asks them the question about these riots, they started crying that their innocent workers are being killed as a result of these riots, exactly following the footsteps of their ideals i.e. Zionists. Unlike others, They go for the ballet and the bullet both. They turned the ballet in their favour through bullet. So, in this decade, they remained in the government of the city for most of the time. Yet, one cannot be able to comprehend why they cannot arrest the culprits involved in these riots, if their "innocent" workers are being killed in it. This further enhances the validity of thinking of one's mind about them being similar to the zionists.

However, if one closely analyses the statements they are issuing, and the postions they are taking in different issues, he would be confused -- If Maulana Sufi Muhammad points out the hypocrisy in the character of the constitution of Pakistan, with it being Islamic overtly and un-Islamic covertly. MQM calls this mutiny against the state, and put pressure on the government to crush them militarily through "bloody riots" in the industrial city of Pakistan. But, if Baloch rebels openly declare the mutiny against the state, MQM staged a rally in support of them. -- He would be confused whether the MQM is part of zionism or just acting similar to their strategy?   

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