KARACHl: City Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Sunday announced that the first Karachi Metropolitan Museum would be open for public on March 23 at the historic Denso Hall building.

Speaking at a press conference here, he said Karachi was a historic city, so the KMC was working on the restoration and improvement of its heritage.

`Denso Hall, Frere Hall, Merewether Tower, KPT and KMC buildings, all are great heritage, which unfortunately got hidden somewhere in the politics of bigotry and hate,` he added.

To tell the future generations what had been the historical background of Karachi, the establishment of the first metropolitan museum of Pakistan at colonial-era Denso Hall was approved recently by the City Council, he added.

On this occasion, he showed the historical records and documents regarding Karachi.

Karachi Medal The mayor said the KMC would also award the Karachi Medal on Aug 14 every year to the heroes who had rendered precious and exceptional services to the city.

Cash prizes and other medals would also be given to those who made useful and informative documentaries on Karachi, he added.

He said that all the money earned by improving tax recovery system in the KMC would be spent on the welfare of the citizens as per the decision of the elected representatives of the City Council.

`The issues of parking fee between the KMC and the town administrations, antiencroachment and land departments would be resolved under the Sindh Local Government Act,` he said. `To solve the traffic problems, a project is being worked out to build parking plazas at different places in the city.

`In the next six months, we will further improve the tax system and make it more transparent. This performance is the answer for those who said they cannot work in this city owing to unavailability of powers. It has now proved that the mayor of the PPP and the administration of PPP are working,` he added.