* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

* 2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.

Karachi (, ; ) is the largest city, main seaport and financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh.

Karachi is the most populous city in the country, one of the world's largest cities in terms of population and also the 10th largest urban agglomeration in the world.

Karachi is ranked as a Beta world city.

Karachi is the location of the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, two of the region's largest and busiest ports.

Descendants of the original community still live in the area on the small island of Abdullah Goth, which is located near the Karachi Port. The original name " Kolachi " survives in the name of a well-known Karachi locality named " Mai Kolachi " in Sindhi.

Mirza Ghazi Beg, the Mughal administrator of Sindh, is among the first historical figures credited for the development of Coastal Sindh ( consisting of regions such as the Makran Coast and the Mehran Delta ), including the cities of Thatta, Bhambore and Karachi.

However, he remains unpopular in areas of Karachi to this day, and is known by some locals as ' chicken ' or ' च ि कन '.

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.

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.

Karachi is located in the south of Pakistan, on the coast of the Arabian Sea.

Karachi is the financial and commercial capital of Pakistan.

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 ).

Karachi ’ s GDP is around 20 % of the total GDP of Pakistan.

Karachi is the nerve center of Pakistan's economy.

The Karachi Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Pakistan, and is considered by many economists to be one of the prime reasons for Pakistan's 8 % GDP growth across 2005.

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 %.

Among projects of note, Emaar Properties is proposing to invest $ 43bn (£ 22. 8bn ) in Karachi to develop Bundal Island, which is a island just off the coast of Karachi.

The waterway network in Pakistan is in its infancy with Karachi being the only major city situated next to the Arabian Sea.

* Thursday, November 8-Pakistan, being the only nation that still had diplomatic ties to the Taliban, asked Afghanistan's rulers to close their consulate in the city of Karachi.

Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ), the flag carrier of Pakistan, uses Allama Iqbal International Airport as a major hub, second only to Jinnah International Airport in Karachi.

Nuwan Zoysa of Sri Lanka is the only bowlers to achieve a hat-trick in the first three balls in test cricket dismissing Murray Goodwin, Neil Johnson and Trevor Gripper of Zimbabwe, in 1999, while Irfan Pathan of India also holds the distinction of achieving a hat-trick in the very first over of the test match but of the 4, 5, 6 deliveries when he dismissed Salman Butt, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf of Pakistan in 2006, Karachi.

Not only are they located in the province of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Province, but also located in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan.

Karachi Grammar School also took part in Harvard Model United Nations 2012 in Beijing, China, winning the coveted ' Best Large Delegation ' award, an honour that is bestowed upon only one of the 120 participating delegations.

It was established in 1966 in collaboration with the IBA Karachi, but is currently only affiliated with the University of Dhaka.

Bhoja Air have indefinitely suspended operations since 29 May on orders by CAA for not meeting criteria of minimum three operational aircraft in their fleet, at the time Bhoja were only operating one Boeing 737-200 with a 737-400 stored at Karachi airport, this aircraft has since been controversially transferred to Shaheen Air and repainted in their livery.

His first exposure to jazz came when he saw a concert by Duke Ellington and his 60-member orchestra at the Metropole Hotel in Karachi, West Pakistan in 1959 ; he and his brother were the only Pakistanis in attendance ( the rest of the audience was white ).

The city is well connected with whole country by road. It is the only city in country which is situated at the cross of two National Highways which are N70 Quetta to Lahore and N55 ( Indus Highway ) Karachi to Peshawar.

During his career, Justice Siddiqui served as civil judge, senior civil judge, additional district and sessions judge, district and sessions judge at Sukkur and Dadu, registrar of the SHC twice, customs judge thrice, special judge anti-corruption, special judge Banking Court, chairman Commercial Court and Drug Court, member Appellate Insurance Tribunal, presiding officer Labour Court, member Supreme Appellate Court / Tribunal, chairman Institute of Business Administration ( IBA ), Karachi, and member Board of Governors of Indus Valley School of Karachi.

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.

Many more high-rise buildings are under construction, such as Centre Point near Korangi Industrial Area, IT Tower, Sofitel Tower Karachi and Emerald Tower.

Sindh Industrial Trading Estate ( SITE ) is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

* S. I. T. E Industrial Area, an area in Karachi, Pakistan

The Karachi Electric Supply Company ’ s 220 MW Korangi Combined Cycle Power Plant is also located at Korangi Industrial Area.

Educational Research Department of Education, Federal Urdu University, Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi: Mohamedali Educational Society, second edition, 1970.

The newly built shopping center Port Grand Food and Entertainment Complex is located at Port of Karachi near Native Jetty Bridge.

Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, which is also the country's industrial center, is more humid than Islamabad but gets significantly lesser rainfall.

Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and the country's economic hub ; the Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar Road of the city, often called the " Wall Street of Pakistan ," acts as Karachi's main financial district and is essentially a center of economic and industrial activity.

The city is located on the banks of the Chenab River in the geographic center of the country and is about from the capital Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi.

Lyari River () is a small ephemeral stream that flows through the Pakistani megacity of Karachi from north east to the center and drains into the Arabian Sea at the Monora channel.

Rahim Yar Khan is a commercial and industrial center, it is connected to the rest of the country through Railway Transport and Air Traffic including the other industrial hubs such as Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Quetta and Faisalabad.