( 10 ) Karachi Stock Exchange ( KSE ) index rose to 14, 000 points from 1000 points in 1999.

* Business Plus ( TV Channel ), a 24-hour Pakistani business channel with hourly updates from the Karachi Stock Exchange

* Karachi Stock Exchange

Lahore Stock Exchange ( Guarantee ) Limited ( LSE ) is Pakistan's second largest stock exchange after the Karachi Stock Exchange.

* Karachi Stock Exchange

* Karachi Stock Exchange

It is now listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange.

Category: Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange

Karachi Stock Exchange 100 Index ( KSE-100 Index ) is a stock index acting as a benchmark to compare prices on the Karachi Stock Exchange ( KSE ) over a period.

Category: Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange

The Bank is also publicly traded on the Karachi Stock Exchange.

* 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.

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.

By 1899, Karachi had become the largest wheat exporting port in the East.

It confirmed Karachi ’ s status as Pakistan ’ s largest economy, well ahead of the next two biggest cities Lahore and Faisalabad, which had a reported GDP ( PPP ) in 2008 of $ 40 billion and $ 14 billion, respectively.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

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.

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 hosts the largest middle class stratum of the country and is the most liberal city in Pakistan.

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

* In Karachi, Pakistan more than 5, 000 radical Islamist students mount the largest demonstration yet against possible U. S. military action against Afghanistan.

Port of Karachi, Pakistan's largest port

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.

One of the two major air force bases in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, is named " PAF Base Faisal " in honour of King Faisal.

Municipal political conflict in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, often pitted native Sindhis against immigrants.

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.

After Karachi, Sialkot is Pakistan's second largest source of foreign exchange earnings through its exports and remittances from the overseas manpower.

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Lahore, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dhaka.

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kanpur, Lakhimpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, in India, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Multan, Hyderabad and Karachi in Pakistan.