Their number too runs into thousands or more. These people also use city's already overburdened transport. The problem has been aggravated due to apathy of the local/provincial administration and their refusal to deal with the problem in a big way. The reason given is the non-availability of funds. As a consequence, a city like Karachi with its seven million population is probably the only city in the world which has no fly overs, no mass-transit system, and the like. The city is faced with time-barred system of traffic regulation and most hackneyed and uncomfortable mode of public transport viz., buses, mini-buses, pick-ups and motor rickshaws.

As far as land use control is concerned Karachi presents a scene of utter chaos and confusion that borders on near anarchy. The d regulations agencies that matter have no doubt framed rules an to control land use in the city. However, in actual practice, these are observed largely in the form of violations rather than compliance. This is true in the case of heights of buildings as well as senseless proliferation of petty shops and stores dealing mainly in routine tertiary goods and services. The condition has worsened to the extent that one finds it very difficult to walk on side walks in almost all ma or shopping center of the city.

Along with these depressing aspects of Karachi's historic growth, the city nevertheless presents an impressive look of a growing metropolis with ever-increasing number of high-rise structures, shopping plazas, luxury hotels and a phenomenal increase in motorized transport especially private cars, pick-ups, motor-rickshaws and motor cycles.

As a National Metropolis Karachi should continue to grow, not as a city of Katchi Abadis, choked streets, and push-carts but a city where people would love to live, and of which they feel proud.