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The mall by the sea: The city’s largest shopping area, the Dolmen Mall, began being built during the Musharraf regime.
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Karachi’s massive Bin Qasim Park was completed during the Musharraf era.
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The Karachi Stock Exchange: During the first five years of the Musharraf regime, Karachiites were doing more business.
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Karachi, May 12, 2007: Body of a young man lies on a road. He was one of the many who died during clashes between MQM, PPP and ANP militants during Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s aborted visit to Karachi. By 2007, the upbeat economic and cultural disposition of the Musharraf regime and its achievements began to steadily crumble due to the gradual erosion and rollback of the economy. In 2007, this polarisation came out with a force when the economy began to fold and a wave of angry religious conservatism began to sweep the country. The regime came under attack from two sides: A powerful political movement (‘Lawyers Movement’) and the private media outlets on the one side, and a more violent and assertive brand of religious extremism on the other. The MQM did not support the anti-Musharraf movement.
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The aftermath of a suicide bomb blast that targeted the procession accompanying Benazir Bhutto on Karachi’s Karsaz Road (2007). Dozens were killed in the carnage. Though Benazir survived the attack, she was finally taken out by terrorists in December 2007 in Rawalpindi. The Karsaz attack was also one of the first clear signs that banned extremists/sectarian organisations had begun to use Karachi as a base of their operations.
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MQM supporters celebrate MQM’s victory in Karachi during the 2008 election. The party formed a coalition government with PPP and ANP in the centre and Sindh.
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ANP’s Shahi Syed being welcomed by ANP supporters outside Karachi’s Jinnah Airport. Syed and ANP enjoyed a brief rise to power in Karachi after the 2008 election but was brutally cut to size by various extremist organisations that began to infiltrate the Pakhtun-dominated areas of the city.
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Rangers get hold of a trouble-maker in Lyari – an area plagued by poverty and violent ‘gang wars.’ Though Lyari is a PPP strong-hold, action here was approved by the PPP regime in Sindh.
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Fire rages from a naval base in Karachi that was attacked by extremists in 2012.
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A Ranger’s van patrol one of Karachi’s many sensitive areas.
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Hoping for a better tomorrow: Women waiting to cast their vote in Karachi during the 2013 election.
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Pictures were visual delight! My grandfather remember visiting it as a Child.
Pictures were visual delight, but why was capital changed to Islamabad then?
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Pictures were visual delight! My grandfather remember visiting it as a Child. Pictures were visual delight, but why was capital changed to Islamabad then?
because Islamabad was near Ayub Khan's village.
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because Islamabad was near Ayub Khan's village.
Good one. It is better for us that Gandhi's didn't move it to Allahabad :D
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Absolutely,amazing images Mahool. :)
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@mahool why is that you are tagging me for rikshaw and shahi syed? I actually went through all of the thread and you should tag me for the any thing interesting or worth reading, not necessarily pashtun tag on it. You think i am some foriegner or what that i wont be interested in rest of the aspects of karachi?. Do tag me if you have some questions for me about pashtuns and their history and culture but dont assume that my interests doesnt extend beyond that.
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As you only post Pashtun stuff on site, therefore I assumed that you are only interested in that.
I will tag you other than Pashtun posts. :k:
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I am mostly interested in pakistani politics and current affairs, for that i use siasat.pk and defence.pk. While my activity on this site is indeed limited to history section. But think about it, tagging only me for riksha picture is giving wrong vibes, you being karachiites has more to do with that riksha driver, see him more as karachiite rather than just a pathan. And perhaps you are not aware, i am PTI supporter so my sister you dont have to tag every pathan with ANP. Again shahi syed is as much karachiite as you. I hope you are not offended by my advises.
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I am mostly interested in pakistani politics and current affairs, for that i use siasat.pk and defence.pk. While my activity on this site is indeed limited to history section. But think about it, tagging only me for riksha picture is giving wrong vibes, you being karachiites has more to do with that riksha driver, see him more as karachiite rather than just a pathan. And perhaps you are not aware, i am PTI supporter so my sister you dont have to tag every pathan with ANP. Again shahi syed is as much karachiite as you. I hope you are not offended by my advises.
No, I cannot be offended easily by anyone.... :D
I will tag you.
Where do you live?
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Abbotabad