- 7/6/2025
Dive into the inspiring yet tragic story of Perween Rahman, "The Rebel Optimist"—an architect and urban planner who dedicated her life to the poor of #Pakistan. Director of the renowned Orangi Pilot Project, Perween pioneered low-cost sanitation models and tirelessly fought against Karachi's powerful land and water mafias.
Discover how her groundbreaking work in mapping informal settlements and exposing water theft put her on a collision course with ruthless forces, leading to her brutal assassination in March 2013. Her vision for #Karachi was clear: "Development is not five-star hotels... What we need is human development." Learn about the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of a woman who dared to dream of a better Karachi for all.
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Source: https://youtu.be/wG8jApeVg_Y
Discover how her groundbreaking work in mapping informal settlements and exposing water theft put her on a collision course with ruthless forces, leading to her brutal assassination in March 2013. Her vision for #Karachi was clear: "Development is not five-star hotels... What we need is human development." Learn about the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of a woman who dared to dream of a better Karachi for all.
#PerweenRahman #RebelOptimist #Karachi #OrangiPilotProject #SocialActivist #HumanRights #UrbanPlanning #PakistanHero #LandMafia #WaterMafia #Assassination #TrueStory #PakistaniHistory #Inspiration #SocialJustice #CommunityDevelopment #DrAkhtarHameedKhan #SlumDevelopment #JusticeForPerween #Martyr #Architect #NGO #KarachiDevelopment #HeroineOfKarachi #Pakistan
Source: https://youtu.be/wG8jApeVg_Y
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00:00:00Every time I came from Abu Dhabi to see Parveen my mother and we would spend
00:00:09Saturday night and the whole of Sunday and every time we decided to you know
00:00:15we'll go here and eat or we'll go see these people but after she came we would
00:00:20sit in the garden and talk and we decide no let's not do anything let's just be
00:00:24here together and that's what we used to invariably do
00:00:33we would get up very early walk down to the beach because early in the morning is
00:00:40when you get the best shells so we would pick up shells and you know each time
00:00:45Parveen saw something she would delight in it and she'd say look at this have you
00:00:49ever seen anything so beautiful it could be the most innocuous thing but she'd
00:00:53find so much pleasure in discovering that shell and we'd collect a whole you
00:00:59know bag fulls and then she would see who's the littlest kid among the those
00:01:04who were with her and give the bag to that child
00:01:11that's how we would start our days on Sundays
00:01:17and that's how we can discuss America's level of the water and the water and the
00:01:31water and the beauty of the water and the beauty of water and the atmosphere and the
00:01:35energy of the soil are in the desert and the water so the water for the water and the
00:01:41It's very difficult to look at it.
00:01:43It's a good feeling.
00:01:45It's a good feeling.
00:01:47It's a good feeling.
00:01:49It's a good feeling.
00:01:51It's a good feeling of depression.
00:01:53How many times have our friends
00:01:55been a good feeling of chronic depression?
00:01:57We say, let's go to Sahil.
00:01:59Let's sit in Sahil.
00:02:11How many times have I given milk?
00:02:15I've given both the food and the food that's very good.
00:02:17I've given my money.
00:02:19I've given money.
00:02:21I've given money for you.
00:02:23You give money for more money.
00:02:25You give money.
00:02:27You give money for more money.
00:02:29You give money for more money.
00:02:31This is our...
00:02:35This is my understanding.
00:02:37Probably we can afford this.
00:02:39Actually there are 2, 3 events.
00:02:48The priest Johannand, the priest of Salim was held in the right.
00:02:55They are a lot of pressure on them.
00:03:00All of them are covered.
00:03:03Nothing left.
00:03:06There is no such area, no such area, no such area, no such area, no such area, no such area, where there is no doubt, I will tell you.
00:03:25Difference is taken over.
00:03:27ཁྲབીངས གྲོགས ཁྲ ནསིས ཁྲངས ངསྲས ཀྲགས པསར འྲིགས ར འྲནས ང ར གྟོད ངསྲས ར ང ངསྲ འྲིག ངསྲསྲས �
00:03:57He is going to be on this program.
00:04:04He is going to be on this program.
00:04:11This is the man of Parveen.
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00:06:53It's a very close relationship between the people and the people and the people and the people.
00:07:09The fourth thing is that the police are also involved in these things.
00:07:19The first thing I met in the province was in January 1983.
00:07:39There was also a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:07:45It's a 1-day house.
00:07:48There was a small camera with a tank seating.
00:07:51There was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:07:57There was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:08:01There was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:08:11There was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:08:13There was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:08:17There was an appointment in the office of Ingi.
00:08:19We wanted to give up an open office of Ingi.
00:08:21We wanted to go through the office of Ingi.
00:08:23Now, Ingi was a mother of an office.
00:08:25It was a meeting in the office of Ingi.
00:08:26We wanted to develop a low cost sanitation.
00:08:29We wanted to develop a low cost sanitation enterprise.
00:08:32We wanted to organize a low cost.
00:08:36We wanted to work in low cost and we wanted to try it.
00:08:40Our job is to understand how to fix sanitation in finance and sanitation.
00:08:50At that time, it is clear that it doesn't have a connection to sanitation.
00:08:58But Parveen didn't say that we would do something like this.
00:09:01There was a room on the top of a tent.
00:09:03There was a room on the top.
00:09:05We didn't talk to you.
00:09:07There was a room on the top of a tent.
00:09:10I thought that it was the same for our mind.
00:09:13But I didn't know how to fix it.
00:09:15Parveen didn't say that it was your background.
00:09:19Aarif Hasan told me that you are a part of the people of the world.
00:09:24You are a part of our lives.
00:09:26You are a part of our lives.
00:09:29We don't know anything.
00:09:32I said that we are a part of our lives.
00:09:35We are a part of our lives.
00:09:37We are a part of our lives.
00:09:38We are a part of our lives.
00:09:40We are a part of our lives.
00:09:42What makes this place unique is that people here have considered their problems to be their responsibility.
00:09:51They have and self-help solve the problems of sanitation and health without waiting for any government support.
00:09:58What makes this place unique is that people here have considered their problems.
00:10:03It is also the truth.
00:10:04Its own work now.
00:10:05I am a part of our lives.
00:10:06I am a part of our lives.
00:10:07It is known for years.
00:10:08I am a part of our lives.
00:10:09And he was speaking in Urdu like in the beginning of the day.
00:10:16So I asked him if you haven't come here before.
00:10:19New Karachi has seen it.
00:10:22Sudiani has seen it.
00:10:24Baldiya has seen it.
00:10:27Sait area has seen it.
00:10:29We have seen it.
00:10:31We have seen it before.
00:10:33And today, in this Karachi's village,
00:10:41there is a culture of the bridge.
00:10:45And the bridge of the bridge is another culture.
00:10:50For 30 years ago,
00:10:52there is a female.
00:10:55They have been living with a man.
00:10:58You can understand that
00:11:02When I was in Joseph,
00:11:03there was a pen painted.
00:11:05And there were many stickers.
00:11:07And most,
00:11:09a modern,
00:11:11in Aurangia,
00:11:13there was no one.
00:11:15There were pyjamas,
00:11:18khameez,
00:11:20dupatta.
00:11:21The color combination is always very good.
00:11:24So I thought,
00:11:25that this will not work.
00:11:29So I asked him,
00:11:30the architecture has created it.
00:11:31We have done it.
00:11:32I have done it.
00:11:33We have done it.
00:11:34I have done it.
00:11:35And he has done it.
00:11:36So I said,
00:11:37let's go.
00:11:38After that,
00:11:39we have been sitting there.
00:11:40We have done this.
00:11:41We have done it.
00:11:42First,
00:11:43we have been sitting in the car.
00:11:44At that time,
00:11:45we have not had the car.
00:11:46There was a Suzuki.
00:11:48The hood.
00:11:51The hood.
00:11:52I was looking for one.
00:11:53Once we are sitting here,
00:11:54we have been sitting there
00:11:55and we have been working.
00:11:56And he used to do it.
00:11:57And he had done it.
00:11:59And the day was there.
00:12:00There was a diary.
00:12:01There was an angle on the way.
00:12:03As we went,
00:12:04the way to the road,
00:12:05her making the road,
00:12:07how they were through it.
00:12:08We could see that.
00:12:09We knew how it was to go from another place.
00:12:10to know that if we can go, then we can go.
00:12:15We have done a single day.
00:13:10It was a very nice place.
00:13:13The water is very nice.
00:13:16Yeah.
00:13:17A little bit.
00:13:20It's not too much.
00:13:23It's not too much.
00:13:25It's not too much.
00:13:27It's not too much.
00:13:29It's not too much.
00:13:31I know you go to the way.
00:13:34I think I'm a little bit.
00:13:36It's not too much.
00:13:38In 1947 when Pakistan was built, the population of the Karachi was 4,000,000. In 1951, it was 10,000,000.
00:13:58At that time, migrants came from India and had no planning for all the people who came here.
00:14:09At that time, some of the people were just here and there, but the other people also gave the government to the government
00:14:16that they were empty, British spies were empty, so go and go and go.
00:14:22At that time, people found their own homes, and went to their homes and went to their homes.
00:14:36In the 1970s, when Pakistan became refugees, the government didn't have any planning.
00:14:43So this kind of community was a failure of the government,
00:14:49that they could not be able to do the land or housing,
00:14:54which was the kind of the need for people.
00:14:56Suddenly they were San Antonio Rhinasi.
00:14:59The street was filled with salt, and people came, and went to their homes.
00:15:07And we just thought, while the children reached and were going,
00:15:11they were told that it was so difficult.
00:15:13And when people sit and sit, they also eat a boil,
00:15:18that was very difficult to understand how that is going next.
00:15:21It was filled with a lot of trouble, no water was able to drink,
00:15:28I had to get a lot of transport from 5 numbers, and I had to get a lot of trouble.
00:15:34How do people live in this world?
00:15:37How do we live in this world?
00:15:40We don't know how to live in this world.
00:15:44What is the problem?
00:15:47The people who are here are the people who don't have the rights of the government.
00:15:52They are saying that they are living in the law and they don't have anything.
00:15:58They are human beings.
00:16:02But the negation of human beings is from the societies, from the official agencies, from the elite class,
00:16:12which is our Danish-waran-e-quem,
00:16:17in this case, the decision was very important.
00:16:21The people who look at their lives and don't look at their own lives.
00:16:28The general rule of Gufthagur was a nut shell.
00:16:34It was the case that someone else has to do it.
00:16:39When we say that people don't do it, we don't have the right to say that if we don't do it alone, then we will do it alone.
00:16:51And if we do it, then people will come.
00:17:09We will be able to do it alone.
00:17:36I was in the first time in 1972 at St. Joseph's College in my maths class.
00:17:44I had a chance to notice that Parveen was the same.
00:17:49He always had stickers on his uniform.
00:17:52He would put it on him and put it on him.
00:17:55In every assembly, my sister would point out and say,
00:17:58out of the assembly.
00:18:00He would put it on his stickers.
00:18:02Then he would go back a little later.
00:18:04Then he would go back a little later.
00:18:06Then he would go back a little later.
00:18:08He would have made a band on his head.
00:18:10So, you know, it was a must-malang.
00:18:12It was a hippie type class.
00:18:14In college, of course, she was brilliant.
00:18:16After the ten semesters, in eight semesters, she got gold medals.
00:18:20I mean, she was always on top,
00:18:22including the final semester in architecture.
00:18:28When she had to do the thesis in the final two semesters,
00:18:33what did she choose?
00:18:34She went to Kaidabad.
00:18:36She went to a low-income area
00:18:38and she started studying the standardization of the spaces in which they lived.
00:18:43She didn't choose things like building a house in defense
00:18:47or building a house in TCHS or landscaping.
00:18:51She chose to study low-income groups living in Kaidabad.
00:18:55That thesis is also for us.
00:18:57All handwritten thesis and where she studied the spaces occupied
00:19:02for various aspects of life in those areas.
00:19:07I think that was her first interaction with the low-income communities in Karachi.
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00:19:52and some people are also trying to put their gutter line
00:19:58so OPP has simply said that people who are doing their help
00:20:04saw that in all the different efforts
00:20:07like a soak, open drain or underground gutter line
00:20:11so this has been clear that the underground sewerage line
00:20:15is technically more suitable in other options
00:20:19so then putting the sewerage line
00:20:24will be better to put the sewerage line
00:20:27so there is a technical guidance
00:20:29that if you put a gutter line
00:20:30then why do you put a pipeline straight
00:20:32how do you go underground
00:20:34how do you build a manhole
00:20:36then what kind of design
00:20:38another thing I saw
00:20:40if people are doing a job
00:20:42if they are spending 500 rupees
00:20:44then how can we make 300 rupees
00:20:46economically
00:20:48sociologically then it was seen that people are doing a lot of work
00:20:53but because technically it is not right
00:20:55after working, they are very bad at work
00:20:58because if it is not right
00:20:59people are feeling bad at work
00:21:01because they are bad at work
00:21:02because of the reason they are bad at work
00:21:04so this was an element that people have organized
00:21:06that the 20 people have to be organized
00:21:07that the 20 people have to do a job
00:21:09and they have to do one job
00:21:10psychologically it was that people
00:21:13understand their own work
00:21:15they are not saying
00:21:16how do they understand their own work
00:21:17and if they are waiting for a government
00:21:19they do not know how many years
00:21:20it is working
00:21:22It was a great demonstration of the good things
00:21:26and then spread the work from it.
00:21:43When we started working in the city
00:21:46then the city's solar system
00:21:49got our attention to it.
00:21:51We documented various areas in Karachi
00:21:54and the public and the public.
00:21:56We only saw where the sewage disposal is.
00:21:59It is in the KWSB trunk line
00:22:01or in KWSB.
00:22:03We know more that everyone is in the KWSB.
00:22:07They are not in the KWSB policy.
00:22:11If the reality is that the sewage is in the KWSB
00:22:15and the KWSB policy is not in the KWSB,
00:22:18so you can imagine the explosive situation.
00:22:21Then, in 1996-1997,
00:22:26our work is also in the KWSB.
00:22:29Why is the concept of the whole city's sewage disposal?
00:22:34So, I am not sure about it.
00:22:35If you have a loan from the Asian Bank or World Bank,
00:22:40and you can understand that we can make every gun,
00:22:42every secondary, every trunk,
00:22:44every strength and every strength
00:22:45in the KWSB disposal.
00:22:46It is not possible.
00:22:47So, you can adopt this model.
00:22:49In the past few days,
00:22:54the engineer of KMC and the waterboard
00:22:57came to the KWSB.
00:22:58I mean,
00:22:59this is the work of the OPP.
00:23:04The design has been done.
00:23:07And the work they have done.
00:23:10So, this has come to this level.
00:23:12Now, the OPP RTI is a research institute.
00:23:19This is the main sewer.
00:23:21This is the main sewer.
00:23:32But, this is spanning two towns.
00:23:36It's the whole line going through.
00:23:38It's 40,000 running feet.
00:23:40There is no other place where Parveen is, but it doesn't work.
00:23:45If I am too, it doesn't work.
00:23:49I was, but Parveen was heading the sanitation team.
00:23:58In the sanitation team, there were people who were living in this area,
00:24:03and people who were living in different ways,
00:24:06and people who were living in the area,
00:24:08but this is an example I remember
00:24:11that there was a meeting,
00:24:13so our social organizer shouted at Parveen,
00:24:19and there was a gun.
00:24:23I have intervened and the meeting has been done.
00:24:27I was, I don't know if Parveen is a culture.
00:24:33Don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
00:24:46But, they motivated him to be motivated by his work.
00:24:51So, there was a place that became a place.
00:24:58There are good communities, poor communities.
00:25:01and we have to use our profession so that we can improve those areas.
00:25:08So I grew up in Karachi for 4-6 years.
00:25:31On that occasion we got caught because the local Mali who was there saw me up there and now I'm up there stuck and Parveen is down below.
00:25:43And she's telling me he's coming, come down, come down and I could not come down in time so I got caught.
00:25:48And this Mali was like, wait till you come down, wait till you come down, I'm not going to let you go.
00:25:54She was saying, don't you touch him. Don't touch him. This is my brother. Don't touch him.
00:26:02So he had to let me go. And then after that I don't think we tried it.
00:26:08She was stood by me completely and don't you dare touch my brother.
00:26:16She was like very strong. We were very young. We were about eight, seven, eight years old.
00:26:24I have been born in Bangladesh, East Pakistan, Dhaka.
00:26:32So we had studied class A.
00:26:37So we saw the war in 1972. We saw the killings.
00:26:42We had experienced it when we got out of gun points.
00:26:46So that was the period of understanding and growing.
00:26:51That changed our life when we came to Pakistan.
00:26:54We had nothing, I remember. Nothing. We came with nothing.
00:26:56And hum bilkul samajh gaye ki physical cheezein kuch bhi nahi hoti hai.
00:27:02Hum dhaka mein thai, 1962 se lekar, 72 tak jab tak hum maha se aa nahi gaye.
00:27:14Ten years only. And in those ten years, Pakistan lost the eastern ring in a war.
00:27:214th of February, we were taken out of our homes.
00:27:25But just all of a sudden, you are asked to just leave.
00:27:30And you are out in the field.
00:27:32And then you have no power, you have no home, you have no security, kuch nahi.
00:27:36Toh this feeling of intense dispossession, that had a very big effect on all of us.
00:27:46So you know, jab bhi yaha eviction hota tha, Karachi mein, if she would hear of it,
00:27:51woh jo chunun chadhaana usko kyeye nahi noo sakta.
00:27:55Aap logonko gharon se nahi nigaal sakte.
00:27:58Chahe woh ghar, unhooni kisi tarhaa bhi banaya ho.
00:28:02I think that her obsession with security of housing began at that time
00:28:12because she had experienced it herself.
00:28:14Literally we were out in the field.
00:28:16It was winter, it was raining and there we were surrounded by soldiers.
00:28:22This is what happens in evictions here also.
00:28:25Goats ka kahi... there is no map or even listing of these goats in the government official documents,
00:28:46Or even listing of these goats in the government's official documents, which is an irony because these goats, where they exist, are even before 50 years, more than 50 years, yeah, but there are many more, there are one, so what we are doing is the first step, this is a new program, but all these villages and goats, Google Maps, with the goat elders, these are being marked.
00:29:09I think we will go and do it?
00:29:10Right.
00:29:11I think we will go and do it.
00:29:12Right.
00:29:13Yeah, I think we will do it.
00:29:14We are doing all these, see all the counts.
00:29:17I joined the first thing we did was to make a job in the middle of the village.
00:29:23That is the first step.
00:29:25There is no more punishment for the government.
00:29:28We are doing that, so the situation is that the patient will not be taken from x-ray.
00:29:32Now you say that I will do heart operation, who will do lungs operation.
00:29:36So this is how we are doing it.
00:29:39We know that the gutter line is where is, where is, where is, where is, where is, where is, where is electricity.
00:29:43So just like a doctor for a x-ray is so important.
00:29:48We are doing that in any kind of planning,
00:29:52there is a certain amount of mapping and documentation is very important.
00:29:58If you don't have a map, it can be very easy.
00:30:01If you have made an estimate and didn't mark the map,
00:30:04then who knows where is the line of the valley, where is the water line of the valley.
00:30:09So there is a lot of corruption.
00:30:11In 2007, when Gulshan town was demolished in two goats,
00:30:19they were not killed.
00:30:22In 2007, the lady said that the goat has been marked.
00:30:29We don't know what we will do in Pakistan,
00:30:33or where there are goats, where there are goats,
00:30:35we will document them.
00:30:37In this way, we started making goats.
00:30:39So we started helping with Google.
00:30:41We started making a map.
00:30:43We were making a manual for 15 days or a month.
00:30:45We started to complete it in a week or 10 days.
00:30:49The mapping has spanned the entire Karachi city.
00:30:57And today, we are involved in mapping those settlements,
00:31:01which about six years back were known as rural villages.
00:31:07But when we mapped, we found that they are no longer villages, they are urban.
00:31:12Just the map itself helped the government and the people,
00:31:17the government to announce land title and the people to get it.
00:31:21Just the map.
00:31:22The government's data showed that there are only about 400 such settlements.
00:31:30But our mapping showed that there are more than 2,000 such settlements.
00:31:35The idea was to make the government understand that it's too many you cannot evict.
00:31:41How do we say?
00:31:42That it's pate accompli.
00:31:43And you can't do anything about it,
00:31:45so you might as well give land title.
00:32:05That it's the end of the earth.
00:32:06That it's a matter of time.
00:32:08You have to approach that evolution.
00:32:10That it has always been an evolution.
00:32:13That the universe has not become an evolution.
00:32:15It has to be an evolution.
00:32:17It has to evolve.
00:32:18This evolution has to be an element of evolution.
00:32:20It has to be an evolution.
00:32:22We have to be an evolution.
00:32:24If we are not to be an evolution,
00:32:27then our ability will affect it.
00:32:29This is the evolution.
00:32:30Our vision is an evolution.
00:32:32It is a great idea.
00:32:34And we did not only think about that, but we also had a feeling that we should do something in it.
00:33:04I will tell you about the issues of young people, because we did a survey of young people, which is a very explosive dilemma.
00:33:24After the 10th century, young people are very difficult to get into college.
00:33:30There is no way to get into the future.
00:33:34Why is that a college, which is in the government, has a lot of work.
00:33:39Until you don't give up, you won't be able to get into the private college.
00:33:46So we have seen that young people have two routes.
00:33:50One, they get depressed,
00:33:54and some people are in their home, in their micro-enterprise.
00:34:00But they are very unhappy.
00:34:02They are doing English language courses, technical courses, computer courses.
00:34:07One, they are depressed, they are not happy.
00:34:10And the other one, they become very angry.
00:34:13And when they become angry, they become very difficult.
00:34:16And with the help of the jihadist, the jihadist elements.
00:34:21So our goal is that those young people who want to do something,
00:34:25who are depressed and are in their home,
00:34:27give them an opportunity to develop their education.
00:34:30Through the Youth Resource Center, there are English language courses, forums.
00:34:35They will meet together, so that their psychological depression will be far away.
00:34:40They will meet together.
00:34:56She made us into better people.
00:34:59Much, much better people than we really are.
00:35:03She never told us that you must behave,
00:35:10or she never told my girls that this is the way you must behave or do.
00:35:14But just by doing it and by being herself.
00:35:17We say that we need to do our work and to do our own work.
00:35:27This is also a human development aspect.
00:35:30To understand ourselves,
00:35:32what is my fault?
00:35:33What is my fault?
00:35:35If you learn your faults,
00:35:38then you can see the things that you are looking for.
00:35:42Human development aspect of OPP philosophy is very critical.
00:35:46One good human being is a good human being,
00:35:49who has to achieve its success and also knowledge of their poor.
00:35:58Before we bolt on the door,
00:36:00you must let the Lord tell us that
00:36:03in a moment,
00:36:05his wisdom was not the most.
00:36:07He saw, understood,
00:36:09his involvement had been involved
00:36:11and in its result,
00:36:12it was the decision.
00:36:14Pervin had the fact that he had seen the fact that he had made it.
00:36:25And those were the largest parameters of development in which they had to operate, they had rejected it.
00:36:34For example, they will not give money from USAID, World Bank,
00:36:39they will not give money from Asia Development Bank.
00:36:44They will not give money from their projects, beyond the analysis and analysis.
00:36:49So the first thing was this, the second thing was that the groups,
00:36:59the neighborhood, the authorities, the authorities,
00:37:03we will support them.
00:37:06And we will support them that they will be themselves, empowered,
00:37:13without all these people.
00:37:15There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
00:37:36The idea of the OPP is that we will be able to make a solution for ourselves.
00:37:43It is not that we will make our standard of living with money.
00:37:49For example, if we don't have money,
00:37:51we will take money from World Bank and ADB so that we can put a good gutter line.
00:37:57We can tell people that today's economic conditions are so bad,
00:38:0154% of your budget will go back to the government.
00:38:05And 52% will go to the defence expenditure.
00:38:07There is no other things.
00:38:09Now, if there is no other, what is the government doing?
00:38:12It is taken by loans.
00:38:14If we take loans, the cycle repeats.
00:38:16When we take loans, we take not only money, but also foreign consultants, foreign contractors and technology.
00:38:26There are so many examples that all projects are so big disasters,
00:38:30that the loan is going on and not working on loans.
00:38:34So this is an OPP model.
00:38:36The model is that, despite the fact that professionals and the government, World Bank and IMF,
00:38:45and the people.
00:38:48And that is the Sustainability.
00:39:06The development of the network designed for an increase in dimensions and is not part of the development of that,
00:39:08the government has no need to be able to find them.
00:39:09What is the best of the development of the leader for an organization?
00:39:14We all have the best of the development of the government.
00:39:16We all have to respect them.
00:39:18We all have to respect them while working on this,
00:39:20and that is why they say that the government would not reach may be able to stay the same.
00:39:22Because there is so much debate between the government and the government.
00:39:25I was really hoping for him to study that.
00:39:27Where did these other teams result,
00:39:29there was a great job with them.
00:39:30To do great job,
00:39:31A great job to do great job.
00:39:33To do great job and to do great job,
00:39:34This is a very big thing for the ladies.
00:39:37And to control everything,
00:39:41to understand every person's mind,
00:39:45and to complete their mind,
00:39:49to complete their mind.
00:39:53It's still happening now.
00:39:56Now let's take a look at the earth and the earth.
00:40:03What do you think?
00:40:05One thing he said to me is that
00:40:11in a warm season,
00:40:13there should be vegetables.
00:40:17Now let's see,
00:40:19it's not the same.
00:40:22There are vegetables in the warm season,
00:40:25but it's not the same.
00:40:27This is a great thing.
00:40:33Let's take a look at the end of the year.
00:40:40I've seen the same,
00:40:41the same,
00:40:42the same,
00:40:43that the same,
00:40:44the same,
00:40:45the same.
00:40:46It's not the same.
00:40:47It's not the same,
00:40:48I love it from the animals.
00:40:49foreign
00:41:17All the things that Allah has created in the inside of us,
00:41:21that we love as human beings,
00:41:24that we love as human beings,
00:41:26that we love as human beings,
00:41:28that we love as human beings.
00:41:47Now, how do we build ourselves?
00:41:51Yes.
00:41:56Yes.
00:41:58Yes.
00:42:01Yes.
00:42:03Yes.
00:42:05Yes.
00:42:07Yes.
00:42:09Yes.
00:42:11Yes.
00:42:13Yes.
00:42:15Yes.
00:42:16I think she was just in love with life, she was a classic romantic, on an irrational level, irrational I would say.
00:42:33So, would get excited about things which we would say, okay, there is a little achievement, but there is no such thing. There is a lot of things.
00:42:48But, there are people who, in an endless garden of sadness, can still look at the flowers, which might be few.
00:43:00I think she was one of those, and she wanted people to look at those flowers, and to plant more, instead of endlessly looking at this endless garden of sadness.
00:43:11There was also cuttings from our house, cuttings from our house, cuttings from our house, cuttings from our house, cuttings from our house.
00:43:21I don't remember which plants there were.
00:43:23She used to always say she was grazing rights over you.
00:43:26She didn't have to ask you.
00:43:29So, when did she start calling you Guru?
00:43:32All of a sudden, I remember, Arifasan Volkan, we all started calling you that.
00:43:38Just like everybody calls me Appa, including Drogsha, because Parveen called me Appa.
00:43:45No.
00:43:46I don't remember.
00:43:47No.
00:43:48But, it just happened very naturally.
00:43:49Yes.
00:43:50She started calling her.
00:43:51Yes.
00:43:52Then, she also told her that this is Guru Mandar.
00:43:55Yes.
00:43:56Yes.
00:43:57Yes.
00:43:58Yes.
00:43:59Yes.
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:02Yes.
00:44:03Yes.
00:44:04Yes.
00:44:05Yes.
00:44:06Yes.
00:44:07Yes.
00:44:08Now a a days in Karachi, what is happening?
00:44:09It's something where people don't get much chance to be together in a place to enjoy things
00:44:18in a group.
00:44:21Nowadays in Karachi what is happening is something where people don't get much chance to be together in a place, to enjoy things in a group.
00:44:36And secondly, we felt that acting out some things in which your own surroundings come into being or what you're going through, the problems that you're going through.
00:44:48Because when somebody wants to dance or sing, we're not so free about it.
00:44:52So it's so nice to dance together, to sing together.
00:44:55We felt it would be like coming out of one's suppressed shell.
00:45:01You know she would be, the minute she would enter home, she'd be singing.
00:45:17And the worst kind of songs, I mean we'd roll our eyes, Keparveen please.
00:45:25But she'd be singing that song was Sally something, you know, Shehzad Rojka.
00:45:30Can you imagine, she liked it very much.
00:45:33She liked it very much.
00:45:34And she's to make my mother sing it.
00:45:36These two would be singing, can you imagine.
00:45:38So they were skyping with my grandson.
00:45:41And so, you know, they wanted to sing something.
00:45:44My daughter said,
00:45:46Kala yeh ga ana to nahi sukha yeh ga usko ke woh gali sekega.
00:45:51But you know, she, this is what she was.
00:45:54She took everything the world offered.
00:45:57Had a lot of fun with it.
00:45:59And yet, when she wanted to give of herself, she gave it to people who needed it.
00:46:06She never deprived herself of anything.
00:46:09Never.
00:46:10She was not deprived.
00:46:11But after the flood, she gave up on all this.
00:46:14When I became a lover, my sister did it.
00:46:23After the flood, it was very long.
00:46:26After the flood, may be a long time for me,
00:46:29and can I say to you,
00:46:30it was a last long time for the flood.
00:46:35In everyone I said that,
00:46:38I have, I have, I have, I have,
00:46:42I have seen this. I have never seen that. I have never seen that.
00:46:47I have never felt that we are in this world.
00:46:50This is what kind of a group of people.
00:46:52We have all these different people here.
00:46:55There are all these country who are not seen.
00:46:57I have never seen this group.
00:46:59In the first place, we have talked about this group.
00:47:04This is a very good idea.
00:47:06Where was it? I didn't know where it was.
00:47:09And she said to me, what is such a thing
00:47:14that you have reached so much pain?
00:47:19And she has never answered us.
00:47:24I felt that it was not a thing.
00:47:27When we would talk on the phone and things,
00:47:30she would always be discussing the floods.
00:47:32The floods.
00:47:33Dadu said, can you imagine,
00:47:35there is a house of Wadere,
00:47:37these people are dying here.
00:47:39She would say, I am going to buy the quilts for them.
00:47:42Shall I take your money and buy this?
00:47:44You know, it was always about the people in the flood.
00:47:46And the women, mostly.
00:47:51By the way, a person has changed the whole city.
00:47:56A person has changed the whole city.
00:48:07My friends said to me, leave the NGOs.
00:48:09They were also from the NGOs.
00:48:11That the NGOs is not a good job.
00:48:13It is just a person who is running away.
00:48:15It is a work that they are going to leave.
00:48:17But when they met Madame Praveen,
00:48:19when Madame Praveen came in the first time,
00:48:21when the flood came,
00:48:22we had a food.
00:48:24I was sitting there,
00:48:26I was sitting there,
00:48:27I was sitting there,
00:48:28I was sitting there,
00:48:29I was sitting there.
00:48:30They were saying,
00:48:31they will go and sit with their men.
00:48:33My daughter was sitting there,
00:48:35but when I am going to visit,
00:48:36my daughter came to visit,
00:48:37I have been to the hospital.
00:48:38I laughed at them.
00:48:39I was saying that my husband could not go there.
00:48:40And therefore,
00:48:41they would say that...
00:48:42...
00:48:43...
00:48:44...
00:48:45...
00:48:46They would say that my daughter gave me the help,
00:48:48...
00:48:49...
00:48:50...
00:48:51...
00:48:52...
00:48:53...
00:48:54...
00:48:56you have to do the work in every way.
00:48:58Madam Praveen's personality,
00:49:00my friends and family,
00:49:02changed my eyes.
00:49:21On February 17th,
00:49:23we were at the Beach Luxury Hotel
00:49:27for the Karachi Literature Festival.
00:49:29Four of us siblings,
00:49:31Praveen is the youngest,
00:49:33and after years,
00:49:35I think after about
00:49:3715 years or more,
00:49:39or more even,
00:49:41all four of us were together
00:49:43for the first time.
00:49:45And who knew, you know,
00:49:47two weeks later, that was our last
00:49:49meeting with the four of us together.
00:49:51I mean, she was blooming.
00:49:53She was so,
00:49:55I mean, she was blossoming.
00:49:57As if, you know, having everyone
00:49:59there with her,
00:50:01was giving her extra energy.
00:50:03And that was the last time I saw her.
00:50:05her niece,
00:50:07my brother,
00:50:09myself and Praveen,
00:50:11we were sitting.
00:50:13The two of us were sitting at the back.
00:50:15We were just happily passing through.
00:50:17There were many, many cars.
00:50:19And then suddenly,
00:50:21she sees this.
00:50:23Okay?
00:50:24I would never even have noticed it.
00:50:26She sees this.
00:50:27And she says,
00:50:28okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
00:50:30Okay.
00:50:31And so we said,
00:50:32why?
00:50:33And she said,
00:50:34illegal hydrant.
00:50:36Illegal hydrant.
00:50:37Take a picture.
00:50:38Take a picture.
00:50:39And two people came running.
00:50:41Praveen was here.
00:50:42She wanted to get down
00:50:43to take a picture.
00:50:44We said, no way.
00:50:46We don't need water in Karachi.
00:50:47We have to have to apply water like that.
00:50:49No matter how many water is in Karachi,
00:51:02In Karachi,
00:51:05we don't have to apply water like that.
00:51:09In Karachi,
00:51:10we have to apply water like that in Karachi.
00:51:14And there's less water like that.
00:51:15and hub dams, 2 sources.
00:51:19It's about 30% of the area.
00:51:23Where the deficit area is,
00:51:25why do we not get the deficit area?
00:51:27This is why,
00:51:29where the bulk of the water supply lines are,
00:51:33or from the industry,
00:51:35from the industry,
00:51:37from the industry,
00:51:39from the industry,
00:51:41from the industry,
00:51:43from the industry,
00:51:45from one branch,
00:51:47from one branch,
00:51:49from the Sharae Faisal route,
00:51:51the defense and layari supply it.
00:51:53We surveyed about 650 million gallons of water,
00:51:59or 65 crore gallons,
00:52:03from that,
00:52:0524 crore gallons siphoned.
00:52:0941% of the water is removed.
00:52:13It's removed from the bulk,
00:52:15from the big pipelines,
00:52:17and it's removed from the big pipelines.
00:52:19And those who are removed,
00:52:21are not the poor people.
00:52:25There are a very big group of people,
00:52:27who have full support
00:52:29from the government,
00:52:31agencies,
00:52:32councilors,
00:52:33and all of them.
00:52:35We say there is a very big partnership to symmetry,
00:52:36and a very big partnership to us.
00:52:39I think,
00:52:41the issue of the water supply is about
00:52:43far out of the water.
00:52:45It's a massive issue.
00:52:47In this case,
00:52:48you can also take the 0,000 million make-up.
00:52:50But,
00:52:51the water supply has left me.
00:52:53The water supply is over 41%.
00:52:55There is a huge majority of water,
00:52:57which is approximately a year of 50 Arab rupees.
00:53:02We control it.
00:53:27The water comes here for 13-15 days.
00:53:31We don't have to worry about it.
00:53:33So the water is falling.
00:53:35Look, it's falling for 800-900 rupees.
00:53:38Now, if you buy the water, you can eat food.
00:53:42I don't understand.
00:53:46If you don't have to drink water in the house,
00:53:48you won't have to drink water.
00:53:50You won't have to drink water.
00:53:52You won't have to drink water.
00:53:57You won't have to drink water.
00:53:59I've got a lot.
00:54:01Hello, darling.
00:54:03Come on!
00:54:05Come on, come on.
00:54:09Here we go!
00:54:13There you go!
00:54:15I can't get it!
00:54:17I can't get it!
00:54:19At the Literary Festival, I asked Parveen to say,
00:54:31Parveen, why don't you publish this research?
00:54:37He said, no, no, if it is published,
00:54:43so anything can happen to me.
00:54:49So, I think that she was in danger.
00:54:56Two days ago, when I told her,
00:54:59you know, the law and order situation is so bad,
00:55:02the polio workers are killing me,
00:55:05Parveen, you are doing a little bit.
00:55:07She said, no, no, nobody knows me.
00:55:10But everybody knew her.
00:55:12She was targeted.
00:55:26It was really, I think, incredible,
00:55:30the kind of work that she was doing,
00:55:32not only because it exposed all the injustices,
00:55:37or a lot of the injustices,
00:55:39that the citizens of Karachi face,
00:55:42particularly the underprivileged,
00:55:44in terms of access to land,
00:55:47access to housing,
00:55:49access to resources like water.
00:55:53She did expose all that.
00:55:56But at the same time, you know,
00:55:59her work, it empowered people.
00:56:03And in that process,
00:56:06she obviously stepped on some very powerful toes.
00:56:11She challenged their control over resources.
00:56:17So her work actually was obviously very important
00:56:20for Hurangi pilot project.
00:56:23But I think if you see it in a broader perspective,
00:56:26it was very important for Karachi.
00:56:30It isn't that they can't work on it.
00:56:31But since the day of the country,
00:56:32there are no more people in the country that have been
00:56:33named for the country.
00:56:34This has been said that there is a land mafia in the city,
00:56:44no land mafia.
00:56:46There is a land mafia government,
00:56:48land mafia government agencies,
00:56:50who just leave any land,
00:56:52they will not leave any land.
00:56:57Now there is a lot of interest in the whole world,
00:57:01who always look at where we can invest,
00:57:05that we get more and more profit.
00:57:07In their view, it is Karachi,
00:57:09which is why we have seen that in the past 5 years,
00:57:13there is no supply of land in the past 5 years.
00:57:17So, the Sahil is the same as BC.
00:57:22In our view, there are mega-projects lines
00:57:26or mega-transport lines
00:57:29or mega-road projects.
00:57:32Instead of mega-projects,
00:57:35there is a lot of mega-management.
00:57:37In the mega-management,
00:57:39you need a lot of knowledge,
00:57:41you need a lot of coordination,
00:57:43you need a lot of dialogue.
00:57:45What do you need in mega-projects?
00:57:47You need a lot of money,
00:57:49and you need a lot of money.
00:57:51So, there is a lot of mega-management.
00:57:53Mega-management,
00:57:54that also comes to mind,
00:57:56why our treatment plans are being closed,
00:57:57why they are not maintained,
00:57:59why their land is being removed.
00:58:01This is all the management.
00:58:02This is only concrete,
00:58:08construction,
00:58:10and the building,
00:58:11and commission,
00:58:12and nothing.
00:58:13This is not development.
00:58:14Development is human development.
00:58:16Development is concrete.
00:58:18Development is not five-star hotel.
00:58:20I also understand that Dubai is not a model.
00:58:25How can Dubai be a model?
00:58:27Our Karachi has so many history.
00:58:29Our Karachi is Karachi.
00:58:32How can one say that
00:58:34Dubai will become Singapore?
00:58:35Why do they become Karachi?
00:58:37Karachi will become Karachi.
00:58:38It is our history,
00:58:39our people's history.
00:58:50And every time I tell her,
00:58:59you know,
00:59:00you have seen this scene so many times.
00:59:02She says,
00:59:03it is so full.
00:59:04I mean,
00:59:05this is like life,
00:59:06beginning all over again.
00:59:08The happiness,
00:59:09and the joy.
00:59:10And the sea is therapy.
00:59:12The sea breeze is therapy.
00:59:14How could this have happened to her?
00:59:22I don't know.
00:59:44I don't know.
00:59:45I don't know.
00:59:46I don't know.
00:59:49I don't know.
00:59:50So I didn't know how good this is.
00:59:51yeah
00:59:53Yeah
00:59:55Oh
00:59:56I don't know.
01:00:05So I happened to walk with you.
01:05:37I have always visualized her smiling.
01:05:41Even at that time.
01:05:43I don't know why.
01:05:45I went to the funeral.
01:05:47even then the only image I could have is her smiling.
01:06:17I must show you some beautiful birds here. Look at these birds who come from interior
01:06:26swim. These are known as neel cut. You know when they fly their wings are neel. We have
01:06:33these five birds.
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