WHILE the anti encroachment drive is in full swing in Karachi, it was nice to see the Empress Market in Saddar being given a clean-up shower by the Karachi Fire Brigade Department with the help of a snorkel.

One such cleaning of the Quaid’s mausoleum was carried out by the Karachi Fire Brigade more than two decades ago on the order of the then Mayor of Karachi, Dr Farooq Sattar.

I request Mayor Waseem Akhtar to have the Quaid’s Mausoleum cleansed as Karachi has not received rains this year and the white-stoned Quaid’s Mausoleum is giving a greyish look owing to traffic pollution generated by thousands of vehicles moving around the mausoleum daily.

M. Rafique Zakaria

Karachi

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2018