Pothole-riddled Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar roads turn daily travel into an exhausting ordeal

• With University Road choked by traffic, other access roads are also plagued by excavation work, bottlenecks • Neighbourhood streets are marked by broken surfaces, persistent dust and years of neglect KARACHI: Three major roads provide access to Gulistan-i-Jauhar, yet hardly any of them can now be described as a fully functional artery. Although the locality is regarded as one of Karachi’s relatively upper-middle-class neighbourhoods and continues to expand with new residential and commercial development, many of its blocks, which have been fully developed for well over a decade, present a striking picture of neglect. Instead of reflecting the area’s continued growth, many of its main…