Crossword clues for karachi
karachi
- Pakistani city
- Pakistan's most populous city
- Pakistan's first capital
- Pakistan's largest city
- City on the Arabian Sea
- Pakistani seaport and former capital
- Pakistan's capital from 1947 until 1959
- Pakistan seaport and airport
- Former world capital called "City of Lights"
- Capital on the Arabian Sea
- Birthplace of Benazir Bhutto
Wikipedia
Karachi (, / ALA-LC: , ) is the largest and most populous city in Pakistan, and 7th most populous urban city in the world. It is the capital of Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the main seaport and financial center of Pakistan. Karachi is also known as City of Lights mainly due to the city's night life; it is famous for being a city that never sleeps. Karachi metro has an estimated population of over 23.5 million people , and area of approximately , resulting in a density of more than 6,000 people per square kilometre (15,500 per square mile).
Karachi is the 7th largest urban agglomeration in the world, and the second largest in the Muslim world. It is also the world's 7th least expensive city to live based on cost of living. It is Pakistan's centre of banking, industry, economic activity and trade and is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those involved in textiles, shipping, the automotive industry, entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research. The city is a hub of higher education in South Asia and the Muslim world.
Karachi is also ranked as a beta world city. It was the capital of Pakistan until Islamabad was constructed as a capital to spread development evenly across the country and to prevent it from being concentrated in Karachi. Karachi is the location of the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, two of the region's largest and busiest ports. After the independence of Pakistan, the city population increased dramatically when hundreds of thousands of Muslim Muhajirs from India and from other parts of South Asia came to settle in Karachi.
The city is located on the Arabian Sea coastline. It is also known as the Uroos ul Bilaad, "The Bride of the Cities," the "City of Lights" and the "City of the Quaid," having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947. The term "City of Lights" was first used during Ayub era when new buildings, residential and recreational areas were constructed. During British Raj, it was also described as "Paris of Asia." According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Karachi had a total GDP of $78 billion in 2009 with conservative projections expecting it to rise to $193 billion in 2025. The city generates 35% of Pakistan's tax revenue and is a transit point for majority of its trade. According to Forbes, Karachi is the fastest-growing megacity in the world with a remarkable 80% expansion over the past decade.
Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan, one of the world's largest metropolitan cities and the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
Karachi may also refer to: __NOTOC__
- Karachi Cantonment
- Karachi Division
- Karachi District
- Garachi, Romany ethnic group of Azerbajan
- Kilinochchi District of Sri Lanka, also known as Karachchi
Usage examples of "karachi".
Martin spoke neither Urdu nor the Baluchi dialect, and the man from Karachi spoke only a smattering of Pashto, with sign language and some Arabic from the Koran they got along well.
Ironically, in the first few weeks after the bombing, he was exactly where his PIA escape ticket said he would be: Quetta, the capital of his home province of Baluchistan, 375 miles from Karachi.
Sarajevo, Maputo, Karachi, Baghdad, San Salvador, Managua, Panama City.
Beirut, Tripoli, Baghdad, out of Islamabad and Karachi, out of Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and Dubai, the wives and children of businessmen and diplomats, causing room shortages in Athens hotels, adding stories, new stories all the time.
After another three days, a dangerous double would hit Boca Stake and the thick forests of lower Kahrain and Araby, stocks of the one real wood vitally needed to shore up mine pits at busy Karachi Camp and Drake's Lake.
After another three days, a dangerous double would hit Boca Stake and the thick forests of lower Kahrain and Araby, stocks of the one real wood vitally needed to shore up mine pits at busy Karachi Camp and Drake´s Lake.
After another three days, a dangerous double would hit Boca Stake and the thick forests of lower Kahrain and Araby, stocks of the one real wood vitally needed to shore up mine pits at busy Karachi Camp and Drake’s Lake.
After another three days, a dangerous double would hit Boca Stake and the thick forests of lower Kahrain and Araby, stocks of the one real wood vitally needed to shore up mine pits at busy Karachi Camp and Drake’s Lake.
There were reports of Indian armor gathering along the rim of the Thar Desert, and air strikes at Pakistani Air Force unhs as far west as Karachi.
Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.
This Friday past, Waheed Abdullah told us we were to leave Karachi and make our way to the mountains.
He’d taken Waheed Abdullah and Ahmed Khalili, the young man from Karachi.
She said that Connie had agreed to a short course of X-ray therapy, not because he had any faith in it but because it would take a few days that he would have to spend in Karachi anyway.