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The demographics of Karachi are important as most politics in Karachi is driven and influenced by ethnic affiliation. The success of the MQM has always been patronized by the fact that city's population is dominated by the Muhajir people who remain loyal to the party, which was originally created and led by Altaf Hussain as a means to fight for the community's rights.
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
Karachi is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, [33] 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. [34] [35] [36] Karachi is now Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre.
Throughout the 20th century, Ethiopia witnessed prolonged political turmoil. Starting from fascist Italian occupation (1935–1941), imperial Haile Selassie period (1930–1974) and Derg regime (1974–1991), political violence has increasingly engendered Ethiopia to instability and severe human rights violations. [51] Meles Zenawi in 2012
Millions of dollars in aid to Ethiopia, a key security ally in the region, are at stake. Last month The Associated Press exposed the killing of an estimated 800 people in the city of Axum, citing ...
The view espoused by Ethiopian nationalists is that Ethiopian civic nationalism is in contrast to and in opposition against ethno-nationalist supremacism fueled by ethnic federalist policies introduced by the EPRDF in which Ethiopian nationalists claim that regional subdivisions of the state were segregated according to ethnicity brought about by the partitioning and dissolution of ...
To ensure the federal government's autonomy, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was carved out of Karachi District in 1948. [6] The FCT remained the capital of Pakistan until 1960 when the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi. While Karachi's status as the federal capital ended, it continued to be a major economic and financial hub of Pakistan. [7]
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 ...