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Pakistan has experimented with Daylight Saving Time (DST) a number of times since 2002, shifting local time from UTC+05:00 to UTC+06:00 during various summer periods. Daylight saving time in Pakistan has not been observed since 2009.
Karachi Time (KART) was introduced in West Pakistan by subtracting 30 minutes from UTC+05:30 to UTC+05:00, while Dacca Time (DACT) was introduced in East Pakistan by subtracting 30 minutes off UTC+06:30 to UTC+06:00. The changes were made effective on 30 September 1951. [1] In 1971, Karachi Time was renamed to Pakistan Standard Time.
The city is a melting pot of ethnolinguistic groups from throughout Pakistan, as well as migrants from other parts of Asia. The 2017 census numerated Karachi's population to be 14,910,352, having grown 2.49% per year since the 1998 census, which had listed Karachi's population at approximately 9.3 million. [178]
National capital. Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence. [1] The first capital of Pakistan was the coastal city of Karachi in Sindh, which was selected by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1] Karachi was and still is the largest city and economic capital of Pakistan.
Pakistan's capital (1947–1958) Karachi was chosen as the capital city of Pakistan. After the independence of Pakistan, the city population increased dramatically when hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from India fleeing from anti-Muslim pogroms and from other parts of South Asia came to settle in Karachi. [20]
Serai Quarter was established as a "kafila serai," or caravanserai, outside the walls of Karachi supposedly before the British era. [1] [3] During Talpur rule, the Rah-i-Bandar road was built to connect the city's port to the caravan terminals [4] - this road in the 1860s would eventually be further developed by the British into Bandar Road (now Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road).
Climate of Karachi. Coordinates: 24°51′N 67°02′E. Karachi has a tropical hot desert climate (Köppen: BWh; Trewartha: BWhb), albeit a moderate version of this climate, influenced by monsoons. Karachi has a tropical climate, despite being located slightly above the Tropic of Cancer. It is situated in the monsoon region of Pakistan.
Merewether Clock Tower or Merewether Tower (Urdu: میری ویدر ٹاور) [2] is a neo-Gothic clocktower built during the Victorian era in Karachi, Pakistan. [3] The tower is a landmark in central Karachi, and is at the termini of two of the most important roads in central Karachi: Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road and I. I. Chundrigar Road.