* 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.

Karachi especially after the 1970s has emerged as one of the largest Pashtun cities in the world with its Pashtun population estimated to be around five to seven million which is more than Peshawar, Kabul or Kandahar easily.

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.

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.

There are several large cities on the Arabian Sea coast including Karachi, Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Aden, Muscat, Mumbai, Mangalore, Kochi, Keti Bandar, Salalah and Duqm.

Many of Pakistan ’ s independent television and radio stations are based in Karachi, including world-popular Business Plus, AAJ News, Geo TV, KTN, Sindh TV, CNBC Pakistan, TV ONE, ARY Digital, Indus Television Network, Samaa TV and Dawn News, as well as several local stations.

The western state was politically dominant and composed of three Governor's provinces ( North-West Frontier, West-Punjab and Sindh Province ), one Chief Commissioner's province ( Baluchistan Province ), the Baluchistan States Union, several other princely states ( notably Bahawalpur, Chitral, Dir, Hunza, Khairpur and Swat ), the Federal Capital Territory ( around Karachi ) and the tribal areas.

According to the report, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency rushed Omar to a hospital near Karachi where he was operated on, treated, and then released several days later.

The Indian Navy reportedly fired 13 Styx missiles during the war, 12 of which hit, sinking several ships and damaging the petroleum storage facilities at Karachi .< ref name =" The Missile Boat War ">

Per Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, several raids in Karachi in early February netted dozens of suspected Afghan militants.

Karachi was then home to a very diverse set of ethnicities including Urdu and Gujarati speaking immigrants, Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Baluchis and foreigners from several South Asian countries.

Three years into its existence, MQM won the November 1987 local body elections in Karachi and Hyderabad and had several mayors win unopposed.

Dards have also migrated heavily and set up colonies in several of Pakistan's major urban centres such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

Star Air Aviation ( SAA ) was formed from several aviation veterans in July, 2000 in Karachi.

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

These developments in Karachi resulted in large influx of economic migrants: Parsis, Hindus, Christians, Jews, Marathis, Goans, Chinese, British, Arabs and Gujaratis.

After independence of Pakistan, large number of Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab, Kashmiri Muslims from the Kashmir Valley, and Gujarati Muslims settle in Karachi.

Karachi is furthermore host to a large number of western expatriates in Pakistan.

After the independence of Pakistan, Karachi received a large number of refugees from all over India, whose influence is now evident in the city's different sub-cultures.

In recent years, a large number of architecturally distinctive, even eccentric, buildings have sprung up throughout Karachi.

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

Recently, large CNG busses have been put onto the streets of various cities, primarily Karachi, Lahore and recently Islamabad as minivans which were originally used were beginning to cause large traffic problems.

* 2007: In June, a large dust storm generated by Cyclone Yemyin struck Karachi, Pakistan and areas of the Sindh and lower Balochistan, followed by a series of heavy rainfalls which resulted in a death toll of nearly 200.

They are also found in large numbers in the Pakistani city of Karachi, and with sizable numbers in Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Lahore, Sialkot, and Hyderabad.

Inner-city youths in large South Asian cities including Karachi, Mumbai, and Colombo enjoy gully cricket in their freetime and it is often played as an extremely competitive game with players often having raging emotions.

On 7 February 2012, a large whale shark was found floating off the coast of Karachi, Pakistan.

In recent years, local Pakistani hip hop artists have begun to emerge in underground scenes in large cities such as Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.

There are also large groups of Zikris in the Pakistani city of Karachi and a few numbered in the Pakistani province of Sindh and in Iranian Balochistan.

In Pakistan, samosas of Karachi are famous for their spicy favour, whereas samosas from Fasilabad are famous for being unusually large.

The river Indus was an important artery of communication between Karachi and Jhirk Near Kotri Sindh, was an important river port, the Indus Flotilla used large quantities of firewood and it was kept to fuel steamboats.

Wheat, generally grown in the northern part of the Presidency, but specially in Sind and Gujarat, was exported to Europe in large quantities from Karachi, and on a smaller scale from Bombay.

Indus then flows through a gorge near Sukkur, flows through the fertile plains region of Sindh, forming large delta region between border of Gujarat, India & Pakistan and finally terminates in the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in Pakistan.

In addition to Bangladesh, a large number of Rohingya have also migrated to Karachi, Pakistan.

Gulshan-e-Iqbal () is a large residential and commercial neighbourhood of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.