Pakistaniat.com is one of my favorite blogs and last week Adil Najam made a blog post about abbottabad city. Looking at the pictures in his post and his comments the first thing that came in my mind was are we not doing the same thing with Bakote?
Look at abbottabad picture below and all you can see is an unorganized and unplanned city. As Adil Najam said it is a concrete jungle and it clearly is a mess.
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Abbottabad used to be a place where people liked to go and talk about how green, calm and clean this city was.
Here is an image of abbottabad as published in London newspaper in 1863.
Now if you look at the pictures of bakote you can see a lush green village with trees all over. Don’t you think that in next 20-30 years these trees will be replaced with steel & concrete structures all over the place? Are we not going in the same direction?
