Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth

[Arleitter]

Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth

@mahool

Lyari in 1930 - Karachi’s oldest area (and first slum): Even though Karachi emerged as a bastion of economic prosperity (with a strategically located sea port); and of religious harmony in the first half of the 20th century, with the prosperity also came certain disparities that were mainly centred in areas populated by the city’s growing daily-wage workers. By the 1930s, Lyari had already become a congested area with dwindling resources and a degrading infrastructure.

http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/09/542408a1828e9.jpg?r=1636588592

My relatives are still in Lyari