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Let's continue it by saying that all parties are equally responsible.

Salam Salman You are right about the trends and poor construction practices, also about the non-awareness of geo-technical issues. Kindly suggest some good names for geo-technical consultation in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. There are more stories than actual required information in geo-tech reports mostly. Regards

Despite of being a structural engineer, with due regard to above statements,i would like to disagree with I personally feel that our nation has no geo-technical awareness at all. We are ready to pay architects which in turn pay a negligible amount to structural engineer, but we never bother to consult any geotechnical specialist, and many catastrophic failures are due to failure of soil not structure. we want beauty of facade and don't care about anything below grade, which in turn don't care about our structure. and in my opinion collapse of factory in lahore was also due to soil failure. Thank you