Punjab Punch...History, Politics & Culture: Save Old Buildings of Lhore? Listen and Unlearn

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Save Old Buildings of Lhore? Listen and Unlearn

Save Old Buildings of Lhore?

Radio program LOK LHAR ONLY @ FM 103Monday November 30, 2015

4 to 6 Pm (Pakistani Time)

With Afzal Sahir (host) and Aamir Riaz (Co-host & Producer)

Guests: Maryam Hussain, Dr Imdad Hussain, Punjab Government representative (If available)

Cick and listen Save Old Lhore

Issue is not the construction of Orange Train but Safeguards regarding Old & Ancient Buildings of Lhore. Yet some over-smart players are trying to use safeguards of old building campaign in their own interests. Such players are more dangerous in many ways. It is important to adopt a clear program and agenda and try to create a political consensus so that preservation of ancient and old buildings gets more attention throughout Pakistan.

What is the issue? Why bureaucracy is hiding information as usual? Who want to use this issue for its politics? What is the role of respected elected tier? Why some media groups have so much reservations? If transparency is not their then rumors always get more space. Why some groups have so much love for trees of Gulberge and Canal but they did not show interest for Old Wall City which is in real danger for some decades due to whole sale markets like Azam Cloth market, akbari mandi, shalmi market etc.

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Maryam Hussain is . Associate professor and taught at the Nca for 17 years. Born in Lahore, she studied at Slade School of fine art & Chelsea College of art and design London. She is a teacher, Painter. Writer.

Dr. Imdad Hussain is an engaged academic and social activist. He teaches courses on Urban Policy, Multiculturalism and Environment Policy at Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore. He is also Lead Researcher of USAID-CPPG research project entitled Program Design for Policy, Institutional, and Regulatory Reform in the City of Lahore. Besides he undertakes advocacy projects with Punjab Urban Resource Centre in Lahore. He undertakes pro-poor advocacy for drinking water, low-cost housing, urban land, and affordable transport. He has published research on drinking water, housing, trade, governance, Islamization and cultural change. He is an active member of The Lahore Project which is a voluntary initiative working on the social organization of the low-income settlements and conservation of old city of Lahore. He also works with Muawin, which helps low-income urban communities undertake self-help development, and Saiban, which undertakes incremental housing projects entitled Khuda Ki Basti. All of these initiatives replicate and extend Orangi Pilot Project Karachi’s low-cost, community based development methods.