* 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.

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.

Today, Karachi continues to be an important financial and industrial centre and handles most of the overseas trade of Pakistan and the world, mainly the Asian countries.

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 headquarters are located in the financial capital of Pakistan, Karachi with its second headquarters in the capital, Islamabad.

In addition to the University sponsored financial assistance and scholarships, Karachi campus also receives scholarships for meritorious students under the Sindh Endowment Board by the Education and Literacy Department of the Government of Sindh at both undergraduate and graduate levels of studies.

However due to financial difficulties, Bhoja Air suspended its operations in 2000, although its airline licence issued by CAA – Pakistan remained valid and it maintained a fully functional headquarters office in Karachi and a flight ops and ramp office at Karachi Jinnah International.

He then confessed to arriving in Delhi with his cousin Shaukat for studies, coming into contact with SAR Gilani while studying in Delhi University, surrendering before Border Security Force in 1993 on the advice of his family members, returning back to his native place Sopore and doing commission agency business, coming into contact with one Tariq of Anantanag at that time, who motivated him to join Jihad for liberation of Kashmir and assured him of financial assistance, Tariq introducing him to one Ghaziabad, Karachi who was a proclaimed offender in Kashmir who further exhorted him to join the movement and apprised him of the mission to carry out attacks on important institutions in India like Parliament and Embassies and asked him to find a safe hideout for the ' Fidayeens ' in Delhi.

In 1970, Mahmood was promoted as Chief Engineer ( CE ) at the KANUPP-I, country's first commercial nuclear power plant, in Karachi with the support of his mentor, Dr. Naeem Ahmad Khan.

Multan is a commercial and industrial centre, as it is connected with the rest of the country through rail and air including the other industrial hubs such as Lahore, Karachi, Gujranwala, Quetta and Faisalabad.

When the Pakistani establishment failed to gain the control of Karachi via this planted group, it began an operation against MQM and accused MQM of the widespread political violence that affected Pakistan's southern Sindh province, particularly Karachi, the port city that is the country's commercial capital.

In 1932, JRD Tata landed at the Juhu aerodrome, inaugurating India's first scheduled commercial mail service from Karachi and marking the start of Air India ( then known as Tata Airlines ), which was initially based out of a palm thatched hut at Juhu Aerodrome.

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

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.

The commercial airport at Jacobabad, about 300 miles north of Karachi and 300 miles southeast of Kandahar, is located on the border between Sindh and Balochistan provinces.

It was the capital of Pakistan until Islamabad was constructed as a forward thrust capital in order to spread development much more evenly across the country and to prevent it from just being concentrated in Karachi.

" Karachi was made the capital of Sindh in the 1840s.

Karachi was chosen as the capital of Pakistan, which at the time included modern day Bangladesh, a region located more than away, and not physically connected to Pakistan.

In 1958, the capital of Pakistan was moved from Karachi to Rawalpindi and then in 1960, to the newly built Islamabad.

The province was composed of twelve divisions and the provincial capital was established at Karachi, but later moved to Lahore and finally the state capital was established in Islamabad in 1965.

With the imposition of the martial law led by then-Army Commander-in-Chief General Ayub Khan, the state capital was moved from Karachi to Army Generals Combatant Headquarters ( The GHQ ) at Rawalpindi in 1959, whilst the federal legislature was moved to Dacca.

Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairpur with the capital at Karachi.

After Pakistan's creation, the province lost the city of Karachi, as it became the capital of the newly created country.

At the 1956 SEATO ( Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ) Ministerial Council Meeting held at Karachi, capital of Pakistan at the time, it was stated: Pakistan withdrew from SEATO on November 7, 1973, and the organization was finally dissolved in June 1977.

The ceremonies for the transfer of power were held a day earlier in Karachi, at the time the capital of the new state of Pakistan, so that the last British Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, could attend both the ceremony in Karachi and the ceremony in Delhi.

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Karachi the former provincial capital of Sindh from 1936 was made the Federal Capital Of Pakistan.

There is also a thriving Afghan music industry in neighboring Pakistan, primarily located in the cities of Peshawer, Karachi and the capital city, Islamabad.

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.

In 1960 the federal capital was moved from Karachi to Rawalpindi and then Islamabad when it was completed, followed in 1961 by the merger of the Federal Capital Territory into West Pakistan.

The newspaper has offices in Karachi ( Sindh ), Lahore ( Punjab ), and the federal capital Islamabad, as well as representatives abroad.

After the creation of Pakistan, Hussain moved the newspaper to the then federal capital, Karachi.