The stall owners have also been warned in no uncertain terms that they should not spread out their wares beyond their legitimate territories. The happiest person is Yezdi Sethna, the grandson of the grand old B.D. Sethna, who set up shop decades ago. His shop is the haunt of not just the Parsis, but members of the other communities as well. Speaking in English in his typical Gujarati accent, he always complained about the growing encroachments and increasing unhygienic conditions. Some shopkeepers are less happy because they complain, and quite rightly so, that there has been a total ban on parking in front of the main gate, which is in fact the original parking lot.
People are reluctant to come here for shopping, because they find no parking place.
The brigadier is the one who has supervised the cleaning up of the market and its environs. One feels that the complaint of the shopkeepers is justified, particularly when you see that some of the Suzuki vans parked on the Jahangir Park side have begun to sell fruit. They have in a way replaced the pushcarts. But that is unfair to the poor thelawalas who can't afford to hire the vans for the whole day. Urban housing THE population of Karachi has increased from 450,000 to 10 million in 1998 because of migration that is changing the ethnic composition of the province.