Karachi
June 7, 2021
There will be an alternative to plastic. But not soon. Not if you suggest replacing it with a Rs150 cotton bag, for that is not a sustainable option and the cost alone will deter people from shifting to it completely.
However, even though not soon, there will be a sustainable and safer detour. We are currently in a transition phase of finding an alternative to plastic with an understanding that the alternative has its own ramifications.
Horticulturist Tofiq Pasha made these remarks on Sunday during a discussion that was titled ‘World Environment Day The Decade of Ecosystem Restoration’ and held at his farmhouse in Malir.
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Marigold show draws thousands of visitors to Frere Hall Park
Karachi
January 23, 2021
It is highly unlikely to not be dazzled by beautiful arrangements of marigold flowers being displayed at the Frere Hall premises when you pass through Abdullah Haroon Road.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) Parks and Horticulture Department has adorned the British-colonial era Frere Hall with various colours of marigold flowers, as it is celebrating the city’s first marigold festival that will last till Sunday.
The gardens of the Frere Hall are decked out in circles of orange and yellow marigold flowers, while the white ones are either delicately perched in the middle or at the boundary like white doves. These flowers are further circled with blue and white stones at which light is thrown after sunset.