Karachi Waterfront, a world class city

- would have the worlds tallest building, what musharaf announced the other day.
- $68 billion is the cost of the whole project
- A new massive industrial area with a seaport will be made
- This is the biggest project made by an arab developer and one of the biggest real estate projects ever made
- The area of the project covers over 100,000 acres
- Will be completed in 10 years


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzWRhoew2vE

will it be built around Port Qasim..? What about the 'Textile City' which was to be to be built in SITE area, Shaukar Aziz announced it last year.

will it have electricity? and running water?

this is in hawkes bay area

textile city was just inaugrated last week by shukat aziz

I have it on good authority that the electricity supply will be fine 3 times a week, and the running water will indeed be running...as far away from your taps as possible....

Both will be going on vacation in the 3 hottest months of the summer.....

With people like you in the world, no it won't.

aww, c'mon! I'm as green as they get. You know, the whole recycle, turn off the lights, shower with a friend to conserve water business.

That's what you see in Canada nowdays, conservation techniques.

Bijli bachain... Apne Liye... Qaum ke liye!

I really wonder if these projects will ever be completed. If they are going to go through these I think power or water would be the least of the problem. Long as the power network is planned which it will be I don't think the power is going to be an issue at all.

They can Install two heavy duty generators [25MW] and basically power up a mini city. In NYC many buildings have these. It is hard to imagine where billions will be spent on building these things a few million won't be spent to make sure power is available at all times.

do you really think power and water can be a problem?

this is nakheel, who have brought water and power to the deserts, made histroy by making man made islands resemblings palm trees and the world map, and now here they are with there biggest project yet.

ahahahahahha...how many supposed projects have we heard of in the past year?...they take 30 years to construct a simple building and they talk of creating world class cities...

$68 billion is huge amount. When will work start on this project?

they created a huge metropolis in the desert in just 15 years, which today is called dubai and you are talking about making a building in 30 years

great news, now lets hope it is completed without any problems. projects like these are important for pakistan. $68 billion is a big big amount which means this will be a very big project

its also good to see arabs investing in pakistan. Warid telecom, then the new hotel, and now this.

people it is unlikely that these project will be completed as i heard on tv yesterday that asian development fund 9something like that )will not extend the loans that it gave to pakistan. we have to repay a whole lot money now.

If people like Sharif, bhutto or qazi hussain/diesel mullah come then no this wont happen.

yaar the project is not being funded by the pak govt. its a private investment

dude, asian development fund gives loans to gov. to make there projects, not to arabs to make posh luxary citys, those are made by money from there own pockets.,

The difference being this is Pakistan

As long as Sharifs and Bhuttos and Qazis stay out, it will happen inshAllah.

All I have seen is renders so far.

can you post some here, cos other then the video and picture i posted, i havnt seen anything else.

then it will be alot easier, pakistan has many times more resources then what UAE had in the 90s, if you can make a city in the desert from scratch and in the oceans then you can make it anywhere on this planet.

the only thing that will go against them here is that they cant run the show like they do in the gulf and from what i have heard, they have faced some difficulties in removing the villagers,

I'll believe it when i see it if i am still around in ten years time!.

Warning: when they say 10 years, they actually mean 25.

On a more serious note, are they planning on making a water distillation plant as well? As expensive as one may be, it would solve so many problems. And also a sewage recycling plant... or do they already have one in the city?

I love the way we always mock any possible improvement being made to our country.