Alongside the Arabian Sea at Clifton, the Bagh Ibn e Qasim holds perhaps the most significant attention for tourists arrived in Karachi. Royal architecture, amazing aura, serene sceneries and countless attractions, the Bagh symbolizes the socio recreational identity of the city. Truly Karachi has a royal distinction, and Bagh Ibne Qasim is the jewel in the crown of the city indeed.
The Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim has been developed around the Jehangir Kothari Parade and was inaugurated on February 27, 2007. It is the Pakistan’s biggest park constructed under Clifton Beach Development Project on 130 acres (0.53 km2) of land, replacing the old Toyland Theme Park. Before the project was launched, more than half of the park area was encroached with nearly 450 various encroachment sites.
The CDGK contributed Rs500 million on the 130-acre garden. The Bagh cost Rs. 600 million in total and has been completed in 300 working days. Ten thousand eight hundred trees have been transplanted in the garden. Over 3,000 stone benches and twenty canopies erected. There are 1,500 dustbins to keep the lawns clean. One hopes visitors to the park use them and keep this garden clean.
To keep the premises lively at night, 30 lighting towers — each carrying 24 powerful bulbs — twenty arena vision floodlights and over 1,000 footlights are installed. One hundred twenty acres are used for lawns and paths, walking and other structures have been built on the remaining 10 acres.
More than 10 million people visited the park per year while it is so enormous it can accommodate at least 300,000 people at a time.
While visiting the beautiful and well-maintained park provides one with a sense of ease and tranquility but it is the historical monuments in foreground that gives it a greater degree of significance. The Jahangir Kotahri Parade, the Bagh e Ibn e Qasim Mosque, the Bandstand of pink Jodhpur stone, Hindu temple of Lord Shiva and obviously the lush green as well as flowering capacity of the Park itself are just few things to name.
As a whole Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim together with adjacent monuments and sea view create such a fine setting that it surely will cast a spell on anyone who relishes a combination of history and nature.
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