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

Karachi is not an ancient city. It was a small fishing village that became a medium-sized trading post in the 18th century. British Colonialists further developed this area as a place of business and trade.

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It might not be an ancient city and developed in recent centuries, but it has been inhibited for thousand of years.

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“Karachi has been dumped into the backyard of history,” he said in his presentation. We don’t think of those times (Stone Age) despite the fact that people identify Krokala with Karachi and know that Alexander the Great was here.
There are Roman accounts of Alexander’s trade in the deltaic zone, said Lashari. The Greeks came by the sea and from land, via Makran. People who were Greek by origin were stationed at Bactria (the Indo-Greek empire). They spread to the limit, which was Karachi in the south.

some excavations near Karachi University suggests that there might be some ruins which are more ancient than Moen Jo Daro.