Weather vane 'stolen' from Karachi's Frere Hall, Chief Secretary takes notice
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KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Siddique Memon on Wednesday took notice of 'theft' of a rooster-shaped weather vane which used to sit atop Karachi landmark Frere Hall.
Chief Secretary spokesman Naukhaiz Anwar Siddiqi said Memon has also ordered Karachi Commissioner and Karachi Municipal Corporation Administrator Shoaib Siddiqui to submit a report on the incident within two days.
A television channel took notice of the missing weather vane, prompting a response from the chief secretary.
Suspicions of theft arose as the the rooster-shaped weather vane, which is said to have been removed from a spire of the historical building while renovations were underway, has yet to be replaced.
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Sep 16, 2015 12:24pm
Raju Jamil has been pointing this out since more than a year.
What happened to the rooster, did it fly away..or did any body make chicken tikka of it.
This was a historical wane on a historical building, and sadly our administrators were BLIND to it since years.
Good ,DAWN has covered it, so hope some action takes place…NO JUDICIAL COMMISSION please
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Sep 16, 2015 12:37pm
All over the country leadership and bureaucracy is in deep sleep. They wake up only if something unpleasant happens to them. Keep sleeping, the nation is awake and knows what you are doing against them.
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Sep 16, 2015 12:43pm
This is the limit!
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Sep 16, 2015 12:45pm
Notice taken and report sought as usual. And that too only when reported by a tv channel ? What a way to go.
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Sep 16, 2015 01:33pm
I was wondering how it lasted safe so far.
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Sep 16, 2015 01:38pm
Haha funny
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Sep 16, 2015 02:34pm
Notice on theft of vane will go in vain. Don't blame the bureaucracy perhaps we all are to blame for this.
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Sep 16, 2015 02:34pm
It will continue this apathy towards national monuments. The clock at DJ college also went missing years ago!
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Sep 16, 2015 03:09pm
i wonder at such a heritage there were no CCTVs installed. what a moribund society we are as a whole..
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Sep 16, 2015 03:37pm
Thank God that some one has taken notice, and questions have been asked. I was under the impression that no one cares for such a small matter.
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Sep 16, 2015 03:41pm
Remember, some years back power full fountain motors vanished all of a sudden from Karachi sea shore!!!
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Sep 16, 2015 04:12pm
how much is infant mortality, pakitan is a country where state can not take care of one day old baby how you expect care of 100 year old buildings by state.
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Sep 16, 2015 04:43pm
@Musleh Uddin Ahmad
Sir,
On the contrary the leaders and the bureaucrats are wide awake and helping themselves to the choicest national morsel they fancy. It is the people who are sleeping .
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Sep 16, 2015 06:47pm
Is there anything other than 'notice' which they can take?
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Sep 16, 2015 07:54pm
Ah! where is our society going? Please take every effort to preserve our historical objects.
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Sep 16, 2015 07:57pm
Somebody must have taken notice before the chief secretary did.
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Sep 16, 2015 10:02pm
I am surprised CM did not object to this interference in his working methods. Every one must work within their limits /domain and not outside. Said the CM. Remember?
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Sep 17, 2015 12:12am
We are lucky that Frere Hall is still standing.
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Sep 17, 2015 02:47am
Some hungry man stole it to buy 'Gajjak'.
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Sep 17, 2015 06:06am
Rooster must have thought that since I have watched all around and especially Sharah- e -Faisal unfolding the entire history of Pakistan for almost seven decades and learnt that no one cares which way the wind blows, it is better to retire and rest.
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