A Library at Cheel Chowk Lyari

[muqawwee123]

Public Library at Cheel Chowk Lyari PKG - Video Dailymotion
A good move from the area, which is otherwise in news for firing and killing. Hats off to the people behind the arrangement :hat:

[delhi2lahorekarachi]

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That’s good to know
I also find the museum at Taxila quite interesting.Taxila-600BC-600AD- Gandhara Civillization-World Heritage Site By UNESCO- 1980- Pakistan - YouTube

[muqawwee123]

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The interesting part that should be appreciated for library in Lyari is that general perception of Lyari has now been of a backward and illiterate area and while talking of it people can imagine drugs, etc not books. Though in history, Lyari has produced many writers, social workers and scholars

[ninja_hattori]

@muqawwee123:9743084

The interesting part that should be appreciated for library in Lyari is that general perception of Lyari has now been of a backward and illiterate area and while talking of it people can imagine drugs, etc not books. Though in history, Lyari has produced many writers, social workers and scholars

Chil chowk jahan chil ka statue bhu bullets se zakhmi hai wahi haina?
Good initiative by peoples its upto them to clean their neighborhood slowly…

[Microbian]

There is also a medical college in lyari.

[TS]

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@muqawwee123

Public Library at Cheel Chowk Lyari PKG - Video Dailymotion

A good move from the area, which is otherwise in news for firing and killing. Hats off to the people behind the arrangement :hat:

It’s good to see something positive, but sad at the same time as to how small and basic it is. Not even chairs and tables.

[TS]

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Chil chowk jahan chil ka statue bhu bullets se zakhmi hai wahi haina? .

Sad but funny. How do you know this ? I didn't.

[Dhoti_Main_Dhamaka]

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good effort now lets keep this library open forever :k:

umro ayar ki sari kahaniyan milti hain iss library saay?

[muqawwee123]

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Chil chowk jahan chil ka statue bhu bullets se zakhmi hai wahi haina? Good initiative by peoples its upto them to clean their neighborhood slowly...

yes, the same place always in news for some terrorist acts

[muqawwee123]

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It's good to see something positive, but sad at the same time as to how small and basic it is. Not even chairs and tables.

I think we appreciate Jazba behind it. Otherwise, in Lyari Modern Robbin-hoods were portrayed as heroes. looting in millions to pay few hundred / thousand rupees to needy. I'm not talking about Zardari, I'm talking of local gangs who distribute their looted money to get support.

[muqawwee123]

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@Dhoti_Main_Dhamaka

good effort now lets keep this library open forever :k:

umro ayar ki sari kahaniyan milti hain iss library saay?

Yes Umro Ayyar’s stories are better than the hatred preached amongst different communities living in Lyari

[muqawwee123]

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There is also a medical college in lyari.

Yes its there. This Sunday they conducted entry test. There were news about closing of the college and resignation of staff last year

[hybridkamal]

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statue bhi zakhmi hota hai :D

[muqawwee123]

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@hybridkamal

statue bhi zakhmi hota hai

cheel ka per toot gaya tha:

@muqawwee123

story of ‘Cheel Chowk, Lyari’ which was part of the news a few months back during Lyari operation.

Cheel Chowk: For Lyari, only a bird of prey is a fitting symbol – The Express Tribune

KARACHI: ** **
The left wing is damaged, not from the fighting last week, but from as far back as the Baloch-Mohajir clashes two decades ago. But despite the drooping feather, Cheel Chowk’s cheel or eagle still guards the entrance to the heart of Lyari.

Actually, its proper name is Ibrahim Chowk, named after Ibrahim Hussain Baloch, a prominent social worker of Nawa Lane, who died shortly after Partition.

“Khan bhai (the slain Rehman alias Dakait) and my martyred brother Zahid Hussain Baloch decided on it as a decoration,” explained Ibrahim Hussain Baloch’s grandson Shahid.

**The people decided on an eagle after some discussion. “The Baloch are like the Arabs, who like the falcon and are fond of hunting,” Shahid said. “Then my cousin Abdul Sattar Baloch was killed alongside Shaheed Murtaza Bhutto in those days. And he was proud and beautiful like a falcon, so we were inspired by that.” The bird went up during the last tenure of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
**

“After that people just started calling it Cheel Chowk.” He thinks people have been calling it a vulture but stresses that they take it as a falcon. The monument looks more like an eagle, however.

Shahid Baloch is unhappy that the media has kept calling it Cheel Chowk instead of Ibrahim Chowk. “The media should first know the history,” he said.

The chowk or intersection has a 20-foot pillar decorated half-way up by stones. It has fish at the base and used to have coloured lights and a fountain but neglect set in and repairs have not been ever undertaken.

“The broken wing has been like that since the 1990s,” said Ishaq Baloch, a shopkeeper nearby. “The government sadly never paid attention.”

According to Shahid Baloch, the bird’s metallic body weighs more than 100 kilogrammes and a crane placed it on top of the pillar. “It’s difficult to say how much it cost but perhaps it was around Rs500,000,” he guessed. “And this isn’t the only one. There are other ones in Lyari that were similarly decorated, like Kashti Chowk, Teen Talwar Chowk and Gabol Chowk.”

Residents are now quick to grandly stress that they plan an even bigger and better replacement. “Even its colour has faded,” said Akhtar Baloch. “It was also hit by bullets. But now we’ll gather funds to resurrect it.”

[hybridkamal]

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^^yes it’s feather damaged not injured…

[Aceones]

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video kay aakhiri scene main esa lag rha hay jesay shop opening kay waqt Quran Khwani ho rhi hay

[KKF]

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cheel chowk kii cheel gunfight se zaKhmii ho gaii hai, pahle uskaa to ilaaj mo'aalijah karvaayeN phir library khulvaayeN...

...cheel se merii muraad to aap samajh hii gaye hoNge! :)

[muqawwee123]

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@Khalil KhaaN FaaKhta

cheel chowk kii cheel gunfight se zaKhmii ho gaii hai, pahle uskaa to ilaaj mo’aalijah karvaayeN phir library khulvaayeN…

…cheel se merii muraad to aap samajh hii gaye hoNge!

aap MQM pe joke marna band kaen.. aur library ko appreciate karen

[Microbian]

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@muqawwee123

aap MQM pe joke marna band kaen.. aur library ko appreciate karen

aap KKF ko culture forum sy ban kar dain in py 2 jurm sabit hue hain aik to MQM ki shaan me gustakhi dosra apny thread ko lawaris chor k chaly gaye hain ,jaldi sy parcha katen in k khilaf

[muqawwee123]

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@Microbian

aap KKF ko culture forum sy ban kar dain in py 2 jurm sabit hue hain aik to MQM ki shaan me gustakhi dosra apny thread ko lawaris chor k chaly gaye hain ,jaldi sy parcha katen in k khilaf

uss bewaqoof wali thread main KKF mere jawab se lajawaab ho chuke hain.. iss liye khamosh hain