Football is especially popular in Lyari Town, which has a large Afro-Balochi community and has always been a football-mad locality in Karachi.

In colloquial Urdu especially in the city of Karachi, the word " pati " is also used to denote one Lakh rupees.

The Zikris in urban areas are now giving up their Zikri beliefs and moving towards orthodox Islam especially in Karachi.

Most of the new guns were a prominent part of the many “ youth festivals ” that began to do the rounds in Karachi and Lahore, especially after one such show was specially conducted and televised by PTV in late 1989, ( Music ‘ 89 ).

Some of these, especially the two concerts held in Karachi in late 1989, were one of the best concerts by the band.

His arrest enraged the people of Sindh, especially Karachi and they launched public movements for his freedom.

The cities of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad, Faisalabad, and Quetta are especially known for the great contrast in shopping experiences from burgeoning bazaars to modern multi-story shopping malls.

With the Makran Coastal Highway now reaching Jiwani from Gwadar and also connecting Karachi, Jiwani is a place to be seen especially by those who are interested in observing history more closely.

The tribesmen own several, tightly bound carpet and fabric businesses in the Middle East and Pakistan, especially in the major city of Karachi.

The traffic to and from most airports is usually low, although flights to Karachi, especially, get a large number of passengers.

The SPSSF was first given shape by NSF leaders at Saint Patrick's Government College in Karachi, Pakistan, especially by Nadeem F. Paracha, Ali Kazmi and Umair Chapra.

* 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees ( US $ 200 million ) in damage.

The area of Karachi was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley ; ' Morontobara ' ( probably Manora island near Karachi harbour ), from whence Alexander's admiral Nearchus set sail ; and Barbarikon, a port of the Bactrian kingdom.

Many countries sought to emulate Pakistan's economic planning strategy and one of them, South Korea, copied the city's second " Five-Year Plan " and world Financial Centre in Seoul is designed and modeled after Karachi.

The Pashtuns ( Pakhtuns or Pathans ), originally from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and northern Balochistan, are now the city's second largest ethnic group in Karachi after Muhajirs.

When Pervez Musharraf was returning from an official visit to Colombo his flight was denied landing permissions to Karachi International Airport after orders were issued from the Prime Minister's office.

The plan failed after soldiers in Karachi surrounded the airport control tower.

Soon after he returned during 1948, he was made a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, but spent part of the years 1949 and 1950 in Pakistan as Archaeological Adviser to the Government, helping to establish the Archaeological Department of Pakistan, and the National Museum of Pakistan at Karachi.

Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division.

* In October 2009, Iraqi Airways resumed Karachi, Pakistan after 19 years.

After her six month imprisonment in Sukkur jail, she remained hospitalized for months after which she was shifted to Karachi Central Jail, where she remained imprisoned until 11 December 1981.

* New Zealand are forced to abandon their tour of Pakistan after a bomb explodes outside their hotel in Karachi

Later in 1950s the majority of Urdu speaking refugees who migrated after the independence were settled in the port city of Karachi in southern Sindh and in the cities of Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah and Mirpurkhas.

Traffic at the airport increased after Karachi was partitioned to Pakistan and as many as 40 daily internal and foreign services operated by 1949.

Karachi Grammar School named its second-oldest house " Napier " after Sir Charles Napier ( the oldest House is named Frere after Sir Henry Bartle Frere ).

Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad.

In 2003, Allama Iqbal International Airport was inaugurated and is now the second largest airport in Pakistan after Jinnah International Karachi.

. It ranks as the third largest industrial centre in the country, after Karachi and Faisalabad, in view of the availability of raw material and skilled labour.

Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire ( playing for Whitehaven ), in the face in 1993.

Another special variety available in Karachi is called kagazi samosa after its thin and crispy pastry.

* December 27 – An Air India Douglas C-48C-DO crashes into Korangi Creek shortly after takeoff from Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 23 people on board.

* June 12 – The Air France Douglas DC-4 Ciel de Picardie crashes into the Persian Gulf southeast of Bahrain while on approach to land there after a flight from Karachi, killing 46 of the 52 people on board.

* June 14 – The Air France Douglas DC-4 Ciel de Gascogne crashes into the Persian Gulf southeast of Bahrain while on approach to land there after a flight from Karachi, killing 40 of the 53 people on board.

The 1970s saw major labour struggles in Karachi's industrial estates ( see Karachi labour unrest of 1972 ).

She is a founding member of a Karachi hospital the Kidney Centre and Life member of the Association of Children with Emotional and Learning Problems ( ACELP, where she also taught music and mime at ACELP's school, as a volunteer in the 1970s.

* Strong population growth combined with economic stagnation has created urban conglomerations in Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, Karachi, Dhaka, and Jakarta each with well over 12 million citizens, millions of them young and unemployed or underemployed.

Located on the coast, Karachi has an arid climate with low average precipitation levels ( approx.

A substantial part of Sindh ’ s gross domestic product ( GDP ) is attributed to Karachi ( the GDP of Sindh as a percentage of Pakistan ’ s total GDP has traditionally hovered around 28 %- 30 %; for more information, see economy of Sindh ).

Recently, Karachi has seen an expansion of information and communications technology and electronic media and has become the software outsourcing hub of Pakistan.

Karachi has several large industrial zones such as Karachi Export Processing Zone, SITE, Korangi, Northern Bypass Industrial Zone, Bin Qasim and North Karachi, located on the fringes of the main city.

In addition, Karachi has a vibrant cottage industry and there is a rapidly flourishing Free Zone with an annual growth rate of nearly 6. 5 %.

An average of six people per day are killed in Karachi and Police chief Ahmed Farooqi has said that the violence is beyond the control of law enforcement.

Again in 2011, City District Government of Karachi has been de-merged into its five original constituent districts namely Karachi East, Karachi West, Karachi Central, Karachi South and Malir.

With as high as 7 million by some estimates, the city of Karachi in Pakistan has the largest concentration of urban Pakhtun population in the world, including 50, 000 registered Afghan refugees in the city.

Karachi has been sometimes regarded as an ethnically segregated city, with 75 % of the city regarded as being segregated along ethnic lines.

Karachi has many museums that present exhibitions on a regular basis, including the Mohatta Palace and the National Museum of Pakistan.

Karachi has a rich collection of buildings and structures of varied architectural styles.

Being a cosmopolitan city of Pakistan, Karachi has variety of restaurants from fast food to conventional restaurants and international.

Karachi has always been proactive in organizing large events but because of the political and economic crisis in the country, activities have recently been slowed down.

Karachi has many glitzy shopping malls in the Clifton area, Tariq Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Hyderi shopping area, such as Park Towers, The Forum, Dolmen Mall and Millenium Mall.

The city has been host to a number of successful domestic cricket teams including Karachi, Karachi Blues, Karachi Greens, and Karachi Whites.