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

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

@mahool

Commuters board a tram in Karachi’s Saddar area in 1951: As if overnight, the 50-40 ratio of the city’s population (50 Hindu, 40 Muslim) drastically changed after 1947. Now over 90 per cent of the city’s population was made up of Muslims with more than 70 per cent of these being new arrivals. A majority of the new arrivals were Urdu-speaking Muslims (Mohajirs) from various North Indian cities and towns. Since many of them had roots in urban and semi-urban areas of India and were also educated, they quickly adapted to the urbanism of Karachi and became vital clogs in the city’s emerging bureaucracy and economy.

http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/09/54240ad4317ba.jpg?r=612545858

Rode on this as a child in late 60s and early 70’s!