Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
The II Chundgrigar Road in 1962: It was in the 1960s that this area began to develop into becoming Karachi’s main business hub. It began being called ‘Pakistan’s Wall Street.’
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
1963: Construction underway of the Habib Bank Plaza on Karachi’s II Chundrigarh Road. The building would rise to become the country’s tallest till the 2000s when two more buildings (also in Karachi) outgrew it.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Liyari is dangerous area of Karachi… 
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Karachi holds a special place in my heart ,that I have mentioned here over many a times.We have close relatives there also the city never gave me a stranger look.Hope I will return to Karachi soon. I thought right after Mr.Modi became the P.M and there were high talks regarding a renewed India-pak relations,I would be able to take part in the 2015 April Hinglaj Yatra.But as of now it seems to be a distant possibility.
But I LOVE KARACHI. I MISS YOU :)
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Saddar area in 1965: Trendy shops, cinemas, bars and nightclubs began to emerge here in the 1960s and it became one of the most popular areas of Karachi. With Karachi’s regeneration as an economic hub, its traditional business and pleasure ethics too returned that consisted of uninterrupted economic activity by the day and an unabashed indulgence in leisure activities in the evenings.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Yes… 
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Visa policy is very soft for all kind of religious journey… You need to contact Pakistan Embassy in Dehli… 
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
A Pakhtun rickshaw driver at Karachi’s Clifton Beach in 1962. Though the Ayub regime moved the capital to the newly built city of Islamabad, the economic regeneration enjoyed by Karachi during the Ayub regime’s first six years attracted a wave of inner-country migration to the city. A large number of Punjabis from the Punjab province and Pakhtuns from the former NWFP (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) began to arrive looking for work from the early 1960s onwards. But with the seat of power being moved from Karachi to Islamabad by the Ayub regime, the Mohajirs for the first time began to feel that they were being ousted from the country’s ruling elite. @marwati
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
One my uncle ,running a textile business in Karachi and is around 75, had told me once how Karachi had been during the 60's. Night clubs,bars and it was truly a cosmopolitan city.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
A 1963 newspaper clipping with a report on how Pakistani pop fans gate-crashed their way into a bar at the Karachi Airport where members of the famous pop band The Beatles were having a drink. They had arrived in Karachi to get a connecting flight to Hong Kong.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Yes.Been to Hinglaj before.She is our family goddess. 
Or Kul Devata
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Night club culture was quite open and free till 70s…
Now this culture is not public, but there are night clubs and party locations…
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
A local pop band playing at a nightclub in Karachi in 1968: It was during the Ayub regime that the term ‘City of Lights’ was first used (by the government) for Karachi as brand new buildings, residential areas and recreational spots continued to spring up.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Western tourists shopping in the city’s Saddar area in 1966.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
A donkey-cart owner and his son in Lyari (1967): Karachi once again became a city of trade, business and all kinds of pleasures, and yet, the industrialisation that it enjoyed during the period and the continuous growth in its population began to create economic fissures that the city was largely unequipped to address. The economic disparities and the ever-growing gaps between the rich and the poor triggered by the Ayub regime’s lopsided economic policies became most visible in Karachi’s growing slums. @Mir_Baloch
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Many shanty towns like this one sprang up in the outskirts of Karachi in the 1960s. Criminal mafias involved in land scams, robberies, muggings and drug peddling in such areas found willing recruits in the shape of unemployed and poverty-stricken youth residing in the slums.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Police and military troops patrol the streets at Karachi’s Club Road area during a 1968 strike called by opposition parties against the Ayub government. Resentment against Ayub among the Mohajir middle and lower middle-classes (for supposedly side-lining the Mohajir community), and the growing economic disparities and crime in the city’s Baloch and Mohajir dominated shanty towns turned Karachi into a fertile ground for left-wing student groups, radical labour unions and progressive opposition parties who began a concentrated movement against the Ayub regime in the late 1960s (across Pakistan). Ayub resigned in 1969.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
Yes.But not that open.
Clifton.
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
How is night club culture in India?
Night clubs of Mumbai are very famous. DJ Aqeel 
I think, we need to discuss this topic in culture…
@muqawwee123
Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
There are many more pictures, I will post them later… 