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Saddar in central Karachi, Pakistan. North end. Garden Square (intersection with MA Jinnah Road. South end. Inverarity Road. Zaibunnisa Street or Elphinstone Street (former name) (Urdu: زیب النساء اسٹریٹ), is a thoroughfare and a shopping center in central Karachi, Pakistan that courses through Saddar, the city's colonial-era ...
Gurumandir to Merewether Tower. 3. Named for Muhammad Ali Jinnah arterial road connecting to Karachi's main seaport. Napier Road [6] I. I. Chundrigar Road to Lea Market. 2. Named for Charles Napier. Zaibunnisa Street. Hotel Metropole to Mohammad Ali Jinnah Road.
Serai Quarter was established as a "kafila serai," or caravanserai, outside the walls of Karachi supposedly before the British era. [1] [3] During Talpur rule, the Rah-i-Bandar road was built to connect the city's port to the caravan terminals [4] - this road in the 1860s would eventually be further developed by the British into Bandar Road (now Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road).
Saddar. Saddar (Urdu: صدر), also known as Saddar Bazaar, is a neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan. [1] The locality was developed as the primary commercial district during the period of British-era rule in Karachi. As a result, Saddar contains the large concentration of colonial-era architecture in Karachi. [2][3][4]
Geography of Karachi. Karachi is Pakistan 's largest city and is the capital of Sindh; it lies on Pakistan's southern coast, on the Arabian Sea just northwest of the Indus River Delta . Originally a tiny fishing village, Karachi became a trading center in the 18th century. The British, after gaining control of the region in the 19th century ...
The Wazir Mansion, birthplace of Pakistan's founder Muhammed Ali Jinnah is located in Kharadar. The neighbourhood was named after one of two gates to the old city of Karachi built in 1729 [3] – the other being Mitha Dar or "Sweet Gate," (referring to the potable, fresh water of the Lyari River) which is now the name of the neighborhood adjacent to the northern edge of Kharadar.
Karachi (/ k ə ˈ r ɑː tʃ i /; Urdu: کراچی; Sindhi: ڪراچي ; IPA: [kəˈraːtʃi] ⓘ) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.It is the largest city in Pakistan and the 12th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million.
Culture of Karachi. The cultural history of Karachi dates back at least five thousand years to the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization in the third millennium BC. [citation needed] The early culture was mostly predominantly Neolithic, characterised by the widespread use of small tools and semi-precious stones.