Karachi's Port Grand

Eefa Khalid Published November 1, 2010

Port grand offers restaurants, banking facilities, cinema, art and crafts. It also offers indoor and outdoor art spaces to visual and performance artists, for display and performance both.?Photo by Rabeea Arif

Dawn.com gives you a sneak preview to know what to expect at Port Grand Culture & Arts where an event was held on Saturday. Port Grand is a multi-layered social space in the epicenter of historical Karachi, and is built around the premise of promoting positivity in the city and preserving its heritage; the restored Napier’s bridge within Port Grand is an example of this vision.

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S. A. M.

Nov 01, 2010 05:45pm

This is amazing. I have very sweet memories of the Napir bridge and of the surroundings. If I am not wrong there used to be a temple in the vicinity. we could see the believers going to the temple and offering the colourful flowers etc. Now that I am out of the country I hear that somewhere in between the several bridges a huge food street is being built (or already built). Thanks to DAWN to bring back such sweet memories of the yester years. Shall make it a point to go to PGCA.

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S.Arshad

Nov 01, 2010 06:13pm

WOW, such place exists, unbelievable.This shows there are people in Pakistan who really want peace in the city/country and are willing to do things to bring civility back in the country and make Karachi again a fun city to live and work and a great cosmopolitan town.

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Syed Azam

Nov 01, 2010 06:24pm

Very nice. I will if Dawn has taken more pictures of this project. 8 pictures are not enough to do justice to this wonderful effort. Thanks Dawn.

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UTP

Nov 01, 2010 09:29pm

Wonderful stuff. Who are these creative people? Are they from Pakistan? Proud to be Pakistani!!!

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marzia

Nov 01, 2010 10:39pm

Yayy my sister's work :D very creative!

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saida haider

Nov 02, 2010 12:10am

Lovely Karachi ! It once used to be the city of lights which was awake the whole night. Wish it recovers it"s status ! Where is this place located? Cannot remember.

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Rafay

Nov 02, 2010 06:36am

Thank you Dawn for highlighting Pakistani cultre and arts. Frankly, I am sometimes saddened that the country's best and leading newspaper, Dawn, covers Pakistani culture so infrequnetly. At least that is the impression I get visiting the website, living as I do outside Pakistan. These beautiful photos published by Dawn gives me hope. Kudos and keep up the good work!

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Fayyaz Hafeez

Nov 02, 2010 11:37am

Really this is amazing, I also have some sweet memories of the Napier Bridge when I stood with my Parents in the past days of 80's, I was missing that Peaceful Karachi.

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Mahtab tariq

Nov 02, 2010 01:36pm

This was an amazing event.I traveled long way from sukkur to attend this event ,working with our respectable Sind Rural Support Organization , our aim and objective are to promote traditional crafts of Sind and to create direct linkages with the market.At this platform we hope to introduce our rural craft men and women on weekend arts and craft market.Best of luck PGCA .Thanks to dawn group

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Kublai Khan

Nov 02, 2010 01:54pm

@SAM Temple is still there and the community as well. This "Port Grande" is that huge food street you mentioned. You pass through PNSC building, where I used to work, to enter Port Grande. Cheers

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Hadi Khan

Nov 02, 2010 03:03pm

One of the best news to come out of Khi - and Pakistan for some time. The other is regarding the Thar coal deposit and their possible utilization which can do to Pakistan what Sui gas did in 1950s and Three Gorges Dam did to China.

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Moin Masoodi

Nov 02, 2010 10:01pm

It feels great to see my beloved and darling city surviving many terrible events that have been going there for so long. Thank you Dawn for bringing the good news, please add more pictures of Karachi from the past and present to your paper.

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Faiyaz Syed

Nov 03, 2010 02:12am

This is amazing. I don't even imagine that my birth place has one of a kind location. Picture 1 of 8 reminds me Alamo, where they restore hundreds of years of their heritage. I do not recall if I ever visited Napier Bridge, but my next visit to Pakistan I must see PGCA Insh Allah.

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Sualeha Tajuddin

Nov 03, 2010 02:58am

This initiative has also refreshed my memories, when I was doing my thesis I so want to take pictures of the port and the grandeur and I was disallowed and I was so surprised that my city, mycity's port and I can't take pictures but now I see the public has been well accomodated to share and express their moments. I tried to mount the yop of the bus to photograph the area but the conductor caught me just in time. This place offers one of the wider skyviews in Karachi. Yes, a good effort effort by dawn, gave me a moment to recollect and filled me with hopes once again. Good Job Eefa and Rabeea.

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Nadeem Khan

Nov 03, 2010 10:30pm

Wonderful pictures & a great project, appreciate if Dawn keep on posting the positive images of Pakistan, its full of it. Can Dawn inform its viewers who iniatiated and completed this project?

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Umar Makhdumi

Nov 05, 2010 09:52am

Today I am proud to be a Karachiite. Our city has suffered too much and facilities like these will definitely enhance the culture of tolerance and peace amongst the citizens of Karachi

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Gulshan

Nov 05, 2010 02:29pm

amazing Dawn...appreciation for you and your team.

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