Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim
Block 3, Karachi, Pakistan
About
The Bagh Ibne Qasim is located in Clifton, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Inaugurated by President Pervez Musharraf on February 27, 2007, Pakistan's biggest park constructed under Clifton Beach Development Project on 130 acres (0.53 km2) of land. The old Toyland Theme Park has been done away with and this park replaces it. The park cost PKR 600 million and has been completed in 300 working days. More than 10 million people visited the park per year. KARACHI, Feb 27: Brushing asides all environment concerns due to development of two islands near the Karachi coast, President General Pervez Musharraf has declared that the government "will carry on" and there will be no environmental problem. I suggest some environmentalists to please focus correctly. We will carry while taking consideration of environment," the president said while addressing at the inaugural ceremony of Bagh Ibne Qasim at Jahangir Kothari Parade here on Tuesday. Spread over 130 acres, Bagh Ibne Qasim was completed in a record time of 10 months and after removing encroachment from 70 acres of its land. The president paid rich tribute to Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad and City Nazim Mustafa Kamal and observed that this park could be compared with any good park of the world. Ref: Wikipedia.
