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 of land, replacing the old Toyland Theme Park. Before the project was launched, more than half of the park area was encroached.
The Bagh cost Rs. 600 million in total and ten thousand eight hundred trees have been transplanted in the garden. Stone benches and twenty canopies erected. There are dustbins to keep the lawns clean. One hopes visitors to the park use them and keep this garden clean.
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 Kotari Parade, the Bagh e Ibn e Qasim Mosque, the 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.
Mohsin H.Chinoy
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