Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has initiated the renovation and restoration work of Frere Hall 16 years after the project was granted approval. Administrator Karachi Iftikhar Ali Shallwani inaugurated the renovation and restoration work. He said the work would be carried out under the heritage preservation rules.
Frere Hall is located in central Karachi’s colonial-era Saddar Town, in the Civil Lines neighbourhood that is home to several consulates. The building was intended to serve as Karachi’s town hall. In 1877 at Frere Hall, the first attempt was made to form a consistent set of rules of badminton.
The hall’s ceilings were decorated by the world-renowned Pakistani artist Sadequain in the 1980s, with one mural remaining incomplete after his death in 1987. Several other works by Sadequain are found in the hall, and form what is known as the “Galerie Sadequain.”
