Katti Pahari Karachi

Katti Pahari

Kati Pahari has emerge as a famous area of Karachi City.Ex-Mayor of Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal cut this Mountain range for connecting Orangi, Qasba to North Nazimabad for daily trade of City.Backside of Mountain has Qasba, Orangi and Site areas and mostly Factories and mills are their.So Mustafa Kamal make it easily for industrialist to transport their goods to market easily.

But cutting Mountain now causing fights in Karachi.It is totally anarchy in city.Some think tanks believes that cutting mountain range has a very big story behind it.They believe that behind this foreign agencies are involved.They know very well that Muhajirs and Pakhtoons are arch-rival since creation of Islamic Republic Of Pakistan.The range starts from Sarjani which is in Northern Part of city to the Banaras which is in Southern parts.Backside of Mountain contains Pakhtoons and front side is Muhajirs majority.So before cutting ceremony of this mountain between middle both arch-Rivals was facing problem in fights so enemies of Islam and Pakistan planned to cut this Pahari(Mountain) to make great battle between Pakhtoon-Muhajirs and to demolish economy of Karachi and also Pakistan because Karachi is economic hub of country.

In the 1970s this area was not as bad as it appears today. My college was situated on the north side of Kati Pahari. Me and my brother used to ride five miles daily on our bicycle to go to our college. The park on the side of the road was clean. The road was wide, the huge stormwater drain in between the median was clean and dry and there was no plastic bags then. The mountain was a mountain then with few shrubs here and there. A mile-long title of Pakistan’s first English film, ‘Beyond the last mountain’ was printed there. It could be seen from miles. We used to enjoy the ride.

If houses on the mountain, their doors and windows are painted white and blue, it will probably look like a part of Greece. It must be quite picturesque from up there. If the road below are sweeped, the parks reactivated, filth is removed and plastic collected the area would look like Islamabad.

Who knows that Kati Pahari area residents may have another Jehangir Khan, Jansher Khan, Shahid Afridi or Qadeer Ahmed Khan living in these mountains. These Khan sahibans will unite the communities. Let us find them out and give them a chance.

They need schools, sanitation, clean drinking water and basic healthcare. Ask them to participate in improving their lives, lead them and they will follow. Let us try to fight ethnic strife with this method, because all other methods have failed.