KARACHI: Administrator Murtaza Wahab inaugurated a bird aviary and lighting system at Bagh-i-Jinnah, commonly known as Polo ground, on Saturday.

He said that thousands of people visited the park where even lights had not been functional for a long time and added that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was committed to restoring the facilities at public parks in the city.

“Parks and open spaces have started to get improved and bird’s aviary has been started here today as children love birds,” he added.

As many as 315 different birds, including three pairs of Australian and African parrots, have been kept in the 100-foot-long and 45-foot-wide aviary, which is 30 feet high, giving adequate place for the birds to move and fly without any difficulty.

Sources said that KMC did not spend any funds for arranging the birds for aviary as 100 birds were gifted by the administrator, 150 by the municipal commissioner and 65 by the director general of parks and his officers.

They said that over 3,000 birds could be kept in the aviary.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2022