Re: Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth
I think its linked with nearby Shahi Muhalla.
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Aren't muleri hills in safari park?
Milri hills Is part of uneven alluvial plain that stretches from hill park, mazar qaid naval karsaz and safari hills.
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:Dtaxi
i forgot this terminology and heard it after a very long time
and a taxi near minare pakistan ..something is fishy fishy lol!
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so it was not a joke 
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taxi is a derogatory term to call someone a prostitute but it is not a very common term…and is usually used among lower middle class … most of the burgers for instance in lahore will not understand it but yeah if you are standing in purana lahore asking people that you need a taxi, they may laugh although hey will understand you need a cab
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Let me investigate… 
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I thinks these people mostly live in Saddar and Soldier Bazar and work mostly in education sector.
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I don’t know the name of movies but some days back I was watching an Indian movie about these people. couldn’t watch whole movie but that was very sensitive and have read in novels that they were educated people.
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I don't know the name of movies but some days back I was watching an Indian movie about these people. couldn't watch whole movie but that was very sensitive and have read in novels that they were educated people.
Benjamin sisters?
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Benjamin sisters?
I think they were Christians but not sure about Anglo-Indian.
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Chairman of the left-wing PPP, ZA Bhutto addressing a rally in Karachi just before the 1970 election. The PPP became the country’s new ruling party in 1972. After the end of the ‘One Unit’ (and separation of East Pakistan), Karachi became the capital of Sindh. Bhutto was eager to win the support of Karachi’s Mohajir majority. In various memos written by him to the then Chief Minister of Sindh, Bhutto expressed his desire to once again make Karachi the ‘Paris of Asia.’
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Karachi’s ‘Three Swords’ area in 1974. It was ‘beautified’ during the Bhutto regime but today has become a busy and congested artery connecting Clifton with the centre of the city. It was during the Bhutto government that the city’s first three-lane roads were constructed (Shara-e-Faisal), dotted with trees; the Clifton area was further beautified; foundation of the country’s first steel mill laid (in Karachi); and the construction of a large casino started (near the shores of the Clifton Beach) to accommodate the ever-growing traffic of European, American and Arab tourists.
@Arleitter Casino and Night clubs… :smokin:
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A 1973 Karachi brochure for tourists who were visiting Karachi in the 1970s.
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A newspaper report on the 1972 ‘Language Riots’ in Karachi: Bhutto failed to get the desired support of the Mohajirs. This was mainly due to his government’s ‘socialist’ policies that saw the nationalisation of large industries, banks, factories, educational institutions and insurance companies. This alienated the Mohajir business community and the city’s middle-classes. Also, since Bhutto was a Sindhi and the PPP had won a large number of seats from the Sindhi-speaking areas of Sindh, he encouraged the Sindhis to come to Karachi and participate in the city’s economic and governing activities. This created tensions between the city’s Mohajir majority and the Sindhis arriving in Karachi after Bhutto’s rise to power.
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From ‘elitist’ nightclubs …
@TS #TS](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=TS) … The decade when TS born… :hehe:
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… to seedy ‘low/middle-income’ dance and drink joints, Karachiites looked to escape a melancholic existence by heading towards the city’s many recreational outlets in the 1970s.
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A 1973 press ad (in DAWN newspaper) of one of Karachi’s many famous nightclubs of the 1970s, The Oasis.
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Nishat Cinema 1974: Cinemas in Karachi were usually packed with people in the 1970s.
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Playland 1975: One of Karachi’s most famous recreational and amusement areas for families was the (now defunct) Playland.
