WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

• WSF
• POLYCENTRIC EVENT
• 24-29 JANUARY 2006
• KARACHI

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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

• SOCIO-ECONOMIC
• INFRASTRUCTURAL
• STRENGTH
• OF
• KARACHI

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Infrastructure

• Karachi a city of over sixteen million people
  has a developed civic social infrastructure. It
  is connected with all major cities of Pakistan,
  South Asia and rest of the World by road air and
  sea through an elaborate network of bus, rail,
  airlines and ferries.

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Infrastructure (Cont.)

• Karachi has adequate number of hotels, hostels,
  camping sites and if need be vacant apartment
  blocks as well as restaurants and food courts. It
  has accessible internal transport, social
  recreational facilities to cater accommodate
  any reasonable number of local and visiting
  guests.

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WSF- Venue

• Karachi Expo Centre Complex spread over 500
  acres in the heart of the city. It includes the
  centre itself and several spots stadiums etc.
  The Centre offers modern communication,
  infrastructure facilities for hosting the Forum.
• Centre routinely hosts Education, Trade and
  different kind of conferences during the course
  of any year.

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CENTRES BIRDS-EYE VIEW
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Centres Layout
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WSF- Venue

• The Centre could accommodate 6 plenary sessions
  simultaneously and around 60 self organized
  events. The surroundings of the complex houses
  National Stadium, National Coaching Centre, City
  Sports complex, seven major universities ,
  offices of various Trade Unions and civil society
  organisations etc.

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Services for Special Persons

• Exclusive Pathways are available at Expo Centre
  the same will be ensured for the Camps.
• Courtesy Edhi Trust wheel chairs, crutches
  walkers shall be available at Expo Centre Camps.

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Residential Facilities- Camps

• Camp Sites to accommodate up to 30000 people are
  available at
• 1. National Stadium
• 2. National Coaching Centre
• 3. Roti Plant area
• many more

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Residential Facilities- Hostels

• 1. NILAT YMCA - YWCA
• 2. Urdu University
• 3. Sir Sayed University of Eng. and
  Technology
• 4. University of Karachi
• 5. NED University
• 6. PILER and
• several hundred vacant apts.

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Residential Facilities- Hotels

• 5-star Hotels 4 (with accumulative capacity of
  over 1000 rooms). Rate US 150-200
• 3-4star hotels 11 (with accumulative capacity of
  2300 rooms). Average rate per day US 30-70
• Others Over 100 hotels (with at least capacity
  of over 6000 rooms) Average rate US 2-20.

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Food and beverage

• - Food Stalls at the Centre.
• - Gulshan food district stretches over 5 kms
  of University Rashid Minhas roads.
• - Food Stalls will also be established in
  residential camps.
• - Vegetarian non-vegetarian food will be
  made available.
• - Food from 23 countries regions is
  currently available in Karachi.

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Transport

• Public transport remains available from Airport,
  Bus Railway Stations for the proposed camp
  sites hotels and hostels round the clock.
• Buses, Coaches, Radio regular cabs Rickshaws
  are normally available round the clock.
• . Inter-city buses ploy to and from all major
  cities of Pakistan
• Karachi is linked with Indian, Iranian, Afghan,
  Middle Eastern and Central Asian cities through
  rail, road and boats.

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Communications

• The Centre has over 250 dedicated telephone
  lines.
• Adequate Internet infrastructure is
• available at the Centre.
• The cellular phone companies have indicated that
  they could provide any reasonable temporary
  connections for visitors.

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SECURITY
A Security Plan is being developed in
collaboration with Citizen Police Liaison
Committee DIG Police (Security) Karachi. We
shall also coordinate with, 1. Private Security
Firms 2. Fire Brigade Bomb Disposal
Squad 3. Traffic Police will set up a Traffic
Plan for the area
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Volunteers (Over 2500)
Member Organizations of PSF 82 District
Chapters of PSF Community voluntary
organizations Labour Organisations Boy Scouts
Girls Guides University College Students
Community Workers Members of Sports
Organizations
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Health Cover Medical Facilities

• Edhi Ambulance Service with Wireless base at the
  Centre and Camps.
• Unicef EPI will arrange the medical
  Immunization Camps.
• Pakistan Medical Association promises to provide
  doctors at the Centre Camp sites round the
  clock.

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Health Cover Medical Facilities

• Peoples Doctors Forum agrees to provide doctors.
• Sindh Peoples Para Medical Staff Association will
  provide para Medic staff
• Other ambulance health services including St.
  John Hilal-e-Ahmar will be approached

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23 Hospitals within 5 km radius

• Citys major medical facilities
• are located in the neighborhood
• Aga Khan Hospital
• Liaquat National Hospital
• Ashfaq Memorial Hospital
• Nadeem Medical etc.

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PARALLEL FORUMS

• Arrangements could be made for parallel forums
  through camps and other auditoriums for
• 1. World Parliamentary Forum.
• 2. World Fisher Folk Forum.
• 3. World Youth Forum.
• World Health Forum.
• and
• many more.

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Cultural Activities During WSF

• 1. Nightly music performances.
• 2. Theatre festival
• 3. Documentary film festival
• 4. Paintings Photograph exhibition
• 5. Handicraft exhibition
• 6. Puppet shows
• 7. Childrens theatre
• 8. Replica of cultural expressions

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Peace Ship

• Special arrangements shall be made to receive
  Peace Ship laden with the participants of World
  Social Forum to voyage from Asian port cities to
  Karachi.

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PEACE TRAINS

• Pakistan Railways is being requested to run
  additional trains
• to accommodate participants of WSF Polycentric
  event-2006. We also hope that an additional
  Train link with India would have established
  by December-2005

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Visa Facility

• Pakistani visa is available to all nationalities
  of the World except Israel.

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Translation Services

• English
• Urdu
• Arabic
• Persian
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Thai

• Hindi
• Gujarati
• Sinhalese
• Tamil
• Malayalam
• Bengali
• Marathi
• Korean

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PLACES TO VISIT

• BEACHES
• CLIFTON, SANDSPIT
• BUNAWARI BAY, GADANI
• MUSEUMS
• 1. JEWEL IN THE CROWN _at_ MAHOTA PALACE
• 2. NATIONAL MUSEUM
• 3. Sadeqain Gallery _at_ Frere Garden

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PLACES TO VISIT

• ART GALLERIES There are eleven major art
  galleries in Karachi.
• MARKETS There are numerous markets in Karachi
  to suit all tastes e.g. Zainab market in Saddar,
  Tariq rd, ParkTowers Forum etc
• Historic Karachi Port Trust
• and much more

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Cinemas and Theatre halls

• Over 60 cinemas and theatre halls for Film
  festivals, theatre performances,
• About 11 large auditoriums with seating
  capacities ranging from 150-2500 are available
  for activities including concerts and other
  cultural activities.