Presently a gathering of specialists and volunteers are recovering the dividers by painting them with sprightly outlines went for taking some joy and pride back to a regularly rough, riotous and degenerate city.
Karachi, Pakistan's monetary capital and greatest city, has been overwhelmed as of late by a flood of blackmail, murder and capturing - for religious, criminal, ethnic and political reasons.
Those behind the new venture, called "Reimaging the dividers of Karachi" trust that by taking craftsmanship to the boulevards they can bring a more inspirational standpoint for its 20 million occupants.
"We are cooperating and taking back the city by recovering the dividers which are loaded with disdain graffiti," craftsman Norayya Shaikh Nabi told AFP while drawing a dynamic of the city on a divider along an occupied street.
Nabi, a craftsmanship educator at the Indus Valley School of Workmanship and Structural engineering, is one of 200 craftsmen, artisans and workers tuning in the task.
With assistance from the city powers to get the consent they require, they mean to repaint dividers in 1,600 better places - from distribution centers to schools to flyovers and underpasses.
The plan is being keep running by I Am Karachi, a philanthropy working for the social, social and abstract inspire of the city, supported by trusts from the US Organization for Global Improvement.
Pakistan brags some gifted youthful specialists, yet open workmanship is uncommon.
Munawar Ali Syed, who is driving the group of craftsmen, said it was a delight to take their work past the first class circles of displays and graduate shows.
"It's critical for society to stay included with craftsmanship and music, yet tragically such things are disappearing from our way of life," Syed told AFP.
"In my 17-year craftsmanship hone in the displays, I have delighted in living up to expectations here the most as I am straightforwardly corresponding with my viewers."
Under Syed's watchful eye, a group of craftsmen utilization stencils to make pictures of young men flying kites, jackass truck races and different pictures of rustic life.
Somewhere else, showy, brilliantly shaded depictions of peacocks and elephants have fundamentally changed the vibe of Karachi as well as drawn nonnatives, who normally move with amazing alert around what is an unstable city.
Beside day by day murders, Karachi was hit by two noteworthy dread assaults in a little more than a year.
The venture's facilitator Adeela Suleman said she was charmed the work had brought a "less unfriendly" look
Schoolchildren have likewise been made piece of the venture, in the trust of moving a feeling of responsibility for city and its appearance on to the more youthful eras.
"We included more youthful individuals so they can convey this work on further," said Nabi, as she worked with her high school little girl on a divider.
"When they grow up they will feel that they are agreeable in kind of working for the city - this is similar to planting a seed to the following eras."
The craftsmen trust the venture will inconspicuously change individuals' conduct following quite a while of viciousness, softening them a bit.
"I accept that this will yield great results in the long haul," Syed said.
"When you see positive things around you so your conduct gets to be certain and a major change tags along in one's life."