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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Karachi, Pakistan This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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
Nearly 97% of the population of Karachi is Muslim. The Sunnis follow Hanafi fiqh while Shia are predominantly Ithnā‘Ashariyyah in fiqh , with significant minority groups who follow Ismaili Fiqh , which is composed of Nizari ( Aga Khanis ), Mustaali , Dawoodi Bohra and Sulaymani fiqhs .
Religions in Karachi include Islam, ... the population of the city of Karachi was 51.1% Hindu, 42.3% Muslim, ... the most important Hindu temple in Karachi.
With this change, Dr. Tanzil-ur-Rahman—a particularly "skillful" Islamic activist and judicial activist—argued that ordering Muslims' lives "in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah," as specified in article 2A was a "supra-Constitutional" grund norm of law in Pakistan. [175]
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.
Religious tensions rose in Sindh over the Sukkur Manzilgah issue where Muslims and Hindus disputed over an abandoned mosque in proximity to an area sacred to Hindus. The Sindh Muslim League exploited the issue and agitated for the return of the mosque to Muslims. Consequentially, a thousand members of the Muslim League were imprisoned.
But majority of Muslims denounced Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a Heretic and later Parliament of Pakistan declared followers of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam as Non-Muslims. 1890: End of the Toucouleur Empire. 1895: Afghanistan got Wakhan Corridor by an understanding with Russia and British India making Afghan border touch China.