1001 Smart Cities

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IC3 Integrated Safe City Command Centre

Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources · effective 2026-08-27

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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of 7 claims mapped
5
source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
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exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-858d6e8f552ed390 quantitative
inaugurated in October 2016 at a cost of Rs12 billion
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Both the inauguration month and the project cost are in the report's opening sentence.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dawn — Lahore fails to accrue Safe City project potential, by Asif Chaudhry (8 September 2022)
Claim 2 clm-ecefc4319d7f12eb quantitative
put 8,000 cameras and 400 staff into the Punjab Police Integrated Control, Command and Communications Centre — a 10,000m² control and disaster-recovery building at Qurban Police Lines, joined by 2,000km of fibre and a private 4G LTE-A network
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The technical adviser's project page gives all five figures in one passage.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Arup — the Lahore Safe City project (technical adviser to the authority)
Claim 3 clm-3010539388451768 quantitative
The Punjab Safe Cities Authority that runs it now reports 19,629 cameras, 111 LTE-A sites and 321 panic buttons across 41 cities of the province
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The counters on the authority's own front page, which cover the province rather than Lahore alone.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Punjab Safe Cities Authority (operator)
Claim 4 clm-6aa6a6f59dd16d45 quantitative
By January 2020 almost half of Lahore's cameras — about 4,000 of 8,000 — were offline, as the city prepared to host Pakistan Super League matches
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report gives the share, the number and the occasion in one sentence.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dawn — Half of Lahore no more on Safe City radar, by Asif Chaudhry (13 January 2020)
Claim 5 clm-61581695a2a9bf81 quantitative
Rs266 million approved for the technology vendor had not been released, and the vendor halted maintenance from 1 December 2019
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Both the unreleased payment and the date maintenance stopped are stated in the report.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dawn — Half of Lahore no more on Safe City radar, by Asif Chaudhry (13 January 2020)
Claim 6 clm-7aeadb6bf36e41c8 quantitative
A report compiled by 2022 found 35% of the cameras still not working: 2,500 of the 7,678 installed in Lahore dark, 64 of the 66 variable message signs out of service, and almost all of the 1,000 facial-recognition cameras not functioning
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
All four figures are quoted from the same compiled report in the article.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dawn — Lahore fails to accrue Safe City project potential, by Asif Chaudhry (8 September 2022)
Claim 7 clm-391432bcc7487222 quantitative
the authority extended its reach in the cheapest direction left to it, marking 137,000 locations to be covered by privately installed cameras instead
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The authority's chief operating officer describes the marked locations and the reliance on privately installed cameras.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dawn — Lahore fails to accrue Safe City project potential, by Asif Chaudhry (8 September 2022)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Erratum on this revision's envelope. The snapshot, its hash and its permanent link are untouched.

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of 7 claims mapped
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source dossiers
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publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Punjab Safe Cities Authority / Punjab Police (PPIC3)
Actor types
regional-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
≈₨12bn (~US$100M) Huawei-led PPIC3 systems contract
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

5 source dossiers

Punjab Safe Cities Authority (operator) psca.gop.pk · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-874e0602d1089558
Publisher
Name not classified · psca.gop.pk
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-09-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The authority's own live counters for the province: 19,629 cameras, 1,647 free Wi-Fi points, 111 LTE-A sites, 321 panic buttons and 41 cities, alongside its e-challan lookup and emergency-15 service.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Arup — the Lahore Safe City project (technical adviser to the authority) arup.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-9fae29dca2e4bfa1
Publisher
Name not classified · arup.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-09-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Further information on the project.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Wikipedia — Punjab Safe Cities Authority (background) en.wikipedia.org · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-8344cc975fc6db4a
Publisher
Name not classified · en.wikipedia.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-09-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Encyclopedia article with the full story and timeline of the project.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Dawn — Half of Lahore no more on Safe City radar, by Asif Chaudhry (13 January 2020) dawn.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-331a0e4090fcbef9
Publisher
Name not classified · dawn.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2020-01-13
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-09-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Almost 50 per cent — 4,000 — of the CCTV cameras offline as the city prepared to host Pakistan Super League matches; Rs266 million earmarked for the technology vendor approved but not released; the vendor halted maintenance from 1 December 2019.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Dawn — Lahore fails to accrue Safe City project potential, by Asif Chaudhry (8 September 2022) dawn.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-77b93aeab412acd1
Publisher
Name not classified · dawn.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-09-08
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-09-05
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

A compiled report six years after the October 2016 inauguration of the Rs12 billion project: 35 per cent of cameras still non-functional, 2,500 of 7,678 in Lahore, 64 of 66 variable messaging systems out, almost all 1,000 facial-recognition cameras not working; 137,000 locations marked for coverage by privately installed cameras.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.