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

[Arleitter]

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My maternal Grand father shifted to Bombay in the early 1940's since he was transferred and chosen Bombai.I still have my very close relatives in Sindh from my Paternal side.

[Arleitter]

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@mahool

There are many more pictures, I will post them later…

Thank you jii for these wonderful images.

[Arleitter]

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@mahool

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

Night is a happening time in Mumbai…

But the city where I live ,Bangalore has lost it’s charm with the closure of dance bars.

[Dhoti_Main_Dhamaka]

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@mahool

Karachi’s Frere Hall and Garden with Queen Victoria’s statue in 1942.

http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/09/542408a08ebd8.jpg?r=2043357116

@SID_NY @Dhoti_Main_Dhamaka @Ali_Syed

dating point :smokin:

استاد میں پرانا ہوں مگر اتنا بھی نہیں:bummer:
اور ویسے بھی میٹرک میں فیل ہونے کے بعد سے ڈیٹ مارنا چھوڑ دی تھی
ا.

[desert_bird]

Karachi:From Paris of Asia to Hell on Earth

*Karachi ka jo zikr kiya tu ne hum nasheen
Ik teer mere seene mai mara ke haye haye *…

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[Balthier]

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What a sad journey for the city. But not only Karachi, but whole of Pakistan has gone through this sad journey.

You notice the mass exodus of hindus when Pakistan was created, and given how minorities are treated in Pakistan today, they certainly made the correct decision. I think you will have to look really hard to find a more intolerant society than the Pakistani. Unless you belong to Islam, and that to in the "correct manner", you are always going to be harassed, threatened, killed and what not.

You also notice how immigrants, for whom the nation Pakistan was created just as much as for the natives, being treated as second rate citizens. Once again you see how intolerant the Pakistani society has been from the get go.

[TS]

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Treasure trove of historic pictures.

[KKF]

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If Karachi [Sindh] was ruled by PMLN, Desert Bhai would have be singing PMLN qaseede in Karachi [the hell].

[muqawwee123]

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@Balthier

What a sad journey for the city. But not only Karachi, but whole of Pakistan has gone through this sad journey.

**You notice the mass exodus of hindus when Pakistan was created, and given how minorities are treated in Pakistan today, they certainly made the correct decision. I think you will have to look really hard to find a more intolerant society than the Pakistani. **Unless you belong to Islam, and that to in the correct manner, you are always going to be harassed, threatened, killed and what not.

You also notice how immigrants, for whom the nation Pakistan was created just as much as for the natives, being treated as second rate citizens. Once again you see how intolerant the Pakistani society has been from the get go.

coming from the land of Gujrat Massacre. What an audacity. Better luck next time

[desert_bird]

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[muqawwee123]

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What a sad journey for the city. But not only Karachi, but whole of Pakistan has gone through this sad journey.

You notice the mass exodus of hindus when Pakistan was created, and given how minorities are treated in Pakistan today, they certainly made the correct decision. I think you will have to look really hard to find a more intolerant society than the Pakistani. Unless you belong to Islam, and that to in the correct manner, you are always going to be harassed, threatened, killed and what not.

You also notice how immigrants, for whom the nation Pakistan was created just as much as for the natives, being treated as second rate citizens. Once again you see how intolerant the Pakistani society has been from the get go.

Also, when you pass these comments next time, do visit Indian Punjab and let us tell the status of ruined mosques there.

[Balthier]

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@muqawwee123

coming from the land of Gujrat Massacre. What an audacity. Better luck next time

I’m not Indian, I’m pakistani. I don’t understand why I keep on getting accused of being indian. Is it because I’m critical of the pakistani society?
Until we start recognising the faults with the Pakistani society, we will never be able to improve the situation in Pakistan.

As for the comparison with India. First of all, we shouldn’t be comparing Pakistan to India all the time. We are not on their level any more. They are sending satellites to Mars, while we are still stuck on who practices Islam correctly, and whos not worth damn all, because they are either not muslims (which is the worst sin of them all in the land of the pure), or arent’t practising Islam correctly.

And second, at least India is trying to get rid of their backward laws, while we are still stuck with ours, and no one is willing to do anything about it. Those who raise their voice, are downright murdered, and their killers are celebrated as heroes.

[muqawwee123]

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I'm not Indian, I'm pakistani. I don't understand why I keep on getting accused of being indian. Is it because I'm critical of the pakistani society? Until we start recognising the faults with the Pakistani society, we will never be able to improve the situation in Pakistan.

As for the comparison with India. First of all, we shouldn't be comparing Pakistan to India all the time. We are not on their level any more. They are sending satellites to Mars, while we are still stuck on who practices Islam correctly, and whos not worth damn all, because they are either not muslims (which is the worst sin of them all in the land of the pure), or arent't practising Islam correctly.

And second, at least India is trying to get rid of their backward laws, while we are still stuck with ours, and no one is willing to do anything about it. Those who raise their voice, are downright murdered, and their killers are celebrated as heroes.

You may not be Indian, but for being well wisher of Pakistan, try to bring /see some positiveness in Pakistani society. You are vocal about mass exodus of Hindus at the time of partition and conveniently try to forget millions of Muslims massacred in East Punjab. So don't always see glass half empty and when you see it empty and use words 'most intolerant' word for your homeland, check whats happening and what happened in the world as well.

[TS]

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You bog down any country with the kinds of international conspiracies that Pakistan has been, they would be in a similarly bad situation.
Of course this does not absolve a country and its people from their individual and collective responsibility.

InshahAllah Pakistan will rise also.

[TS]

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@mahool

A British couple soon after getting married at a church in Karachi in 1927.

http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/09/5424052f7d99c.jpg?r=1569154585

@mahool

If @TS #TS](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=TS) was there in 1927… This British couple got burqa and Sherwani… libas ka khass khayal rakhini ki hidayat hoti… werna yeh shaadi nahi hoti…

I have no problem with their dresses.
Stop making things up.

That dress is a 1000 times more modest than the costume worn by your Mehwish Hayaat.

[mahool]

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@TS

I have no problem with their dresses.
Stop making things up.

That dress is a 1000 times more modest than the costume worn by your Mehwish Hayaat.

Konsa dress?

[TS]

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Jo bride nay pehna hua hai.

[TLK]

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‘Paris of Asia?’ – Karachi

as my favorite character Lisa Simpson once said when her mother Marge Simpson referred to McGill University as the Harvard of Canada.
Anything that's the "something" of the "something" isn't really the "anything" of "anything".

[Mostar95]

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@mahool

A 1940 board laying out the Karachi city government’s policy towards racism.

http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/09/542408a04f252.jpg?r=967245677

This would have been better they were welcomed despite the apartheid in SA>

[Mostar95]

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@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!