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Karachi is home to some of Pakistan's important cultural institutions. The National Academy of Performing Arts [27] is located in the newly renovated Hindu Gymkhana. The All Pakistan Music Conference, linked to the 45-year-old similar institution in Lahore, has been holding its Annual Music Festival since its inception in 2004. The festival is ...
Karachi was known as Khurachee Scinde (i.e. Karachi, Sindh) during the early British colonial rule. An old image of Karachi from 1889 Karachi map, 1911 St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi An image from 1930 of Elphinstone Street, Karachi Karachi Municipal Corporation Building, inaugurated in 1932
Immortal Characters of Karachi (Vol-I), [27] [9] a biographical collection of the personalities who contributed to the development and diversity of Karachi. Sindhu Ji Safar Kahani (The Travel Story of Indus), a travelogue of his journey along the Indus River from its source to its delta.
Karachi is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, [32] and has significant communities representing almost every ethnic group in Pakistan. Karachi holds more than two million Bengali immigrants, a million Afghan refugees, and up to 400,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar. [33] [34] [35] Karachi is now Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre.
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.
Sind through the centuries : proceedings of an international seminar held in Karachi in Spring 1975. Karachi: Oxford University Press. pp. 35– 42. ISBN 978-0-19-577250-0. Dyson, Tim (2018). A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882905-8.
The story goes: There was a small fishing village in old Karachi, where a woman named Mai Kolachi lived with her seven sons, the youngest was Moriro who was handicapped and could not walk properly, the other children were healthy went fishing in the sea every morning, while Moriro stayed at home with his mother.
Bilquis Bano Edhi HI (Urdu: بلقیس ایدھی; 14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a Pakistani nurse who helped save the lives of over 16,000 children. [2] During her career as a nurse and marriage to Abdul Sattar Edhi, she was one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan.