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The British developed Karachi as a major port which attracted non-Muslims from rest of South Asia. At the time of independence of Pakistan on August 14, 1947, only half the population of Karachi was Muslim. The emigration of Hindus and Sikhs to India and the settlement of Muslim refugees in the city turned Karachi once again into a ...
At the time of independence, the population of the city of Karachi was 51.1% Hindu, 42.3% Muslim, with the remaining 7% primarily Christians (both British and native), Sikhs, Jains, with a small number of Jews. [8] The Independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw an influx of Muslim refugees from India fleeing to settle. While the original Hindu ...
On 14 August 1947, when it became the capital city of Pakistan, its population was about 450,000 inhabitants However, the population rapidly grew with large influx of Muslim refugees after independence in 1947. By 1951, the city population had crossed one million mark. [1] in the following decade, the rate of growth of Karachi was over 80 ...
In 1941, Muslims were 42% of Karachi's population, but by 1951 made up 96% of the city's population. [103] The city's population had tripled between 1941 and 1951. [ 103 ] Urdu replaced Sindhi as Karachi's most widely spoken language; Sindhi was the mother tongue of 51% of Karachi in 1941, but only 8.5% in 1951, while Urdu grew to become the ...
In Karachi, the Urdu speaking Muslims, now known as Karachiwala form the majority of the population. [7] The Muslim refugees lost all their land and properties in India when they fled and some were partly compensated by properties left by Hindus that migrated to India. The Muslim Kutchi people Gujaratis, Konkani, Hyderabadis, Marathi ...
Pakistan has over 240 Million adherents of Islam (including the administrative territory of Azad Kashmir [6] and Gilgit Baltistan [7]) making it the second-largest Muslim population. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As much as 90% of the population follows Sunni Islam and around 97% of Pakistanis follow Islam . [ 11 ]
The demographic history of Karachi of Sindh, Pakistan.The city of Karachi grew from a small fishing village to a megacity in the last 175 years. The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites found by Karachi University team on the Mulri Hills, in front of Karachi University Campus, constitute one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in Sindh during the last fifty years.
[99] 1.1 million Muslims from Uttar Pradesh, Bombay Presidency, Delhi, and Rajasthan settled in their place; half in Karachi and the rest across Sindh's other cities. [100] [94] By the 1951 census, the migrants constituted 57 percent of the population of Karachi, 65 percent in Hyderabad, and 55 percent in Sukkur. [101]