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First zoo built to international standards opens in Bahria Town Karachi

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Karachi gets a new zoo at Bahria Town, where  Danzoo  has been opened for general public which offers quality entertainment for families. Danzoo is a modern day and night safari park which houses a variety of wild animals and birds imported from across the World.  Danzoo Bahria Town Video Bahria Town Karachi  conducted the opening ceremony of Danzoo on 15th May 2018, and general public is allowed to enjoy the joyful rides of day night safari from 16th May. The rides include buggy ride, boat ride and water cycle ride. The Safari Park is spread over a large area where wild animals and birds are kept in their reserved cages, and you can take a tour de danzoo by buggy ride. Danzoo opens daily at 12:00 noon till 11:00 PM at night. Entry ticket will be charged per person, and you can buy ticket for each ride you want. Following is the timing and ticketing information of Danzoo:

Mohatta Palace Karachi,Sindh

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The Mohatta Palace is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was built by Shivratan Chandraratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari businessman from modern day Rajasthan in India, as his summer home in 1927. The architect of the palace was Agha Ahmed Hussain. However Mohatta could enjoy this building for only about two decades before the independence in 1947, after which he left Karachi for India. He built the Palace in the tradition of stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an elegant neighborhood, characterized by Indo-Saracenic architecture which was located not far from the sea. At Partition in 1947, Mohatta Palace was acquired by the newly established Government of Pakistan to house its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When the Foreign Office moved to Islamabad in 1964, the palace was given to Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah. After her demise in 1964, her sister Shireen Bai lived...

State Bank Museum & Art Gallery

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