Eating and spitting pan is prohibited

This is a sign one sees too often in Karachi. Along with stained cancer ridden teeth and festering sidewalks… well the sidewalks are being worked on. The old ones are being replaced with these crumbly things which can hardly withstand a car crash or two (and that happens a lot in this city) at what must be is a hideous cost.

The picture above was taken at Jinnah Airport, one of the few public places cleaned on a daily basis in Karachi.

These sidewalks say a lot about the priorities of our local govt. Half the city has no amenities whatsoever, and here we go about building not even sidewalks but the sides of the sidewalks.

Now since the main purpose of these sidewalks is to be spit upon, it makes not much sense to spend so much money to beautify them. And I think someone forgot to mention to the powers-on-high of Karachi that the old sidewalks were still holding their own.