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Karachi Vice : life and death in a divided city /

Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shackle, Samira (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021.
Subjects:
Karachi (Pakistan) > Social conditions.
Karachi (Pakistan) > Politics and government.
Crime > Pakistan > Karachi.
Political violence > Pakistan > Karachi.
Table of Contents:
  • Maps
  • Political groups
  • Timeline of major event s
  • Prologue
  • Safdar
  • Parveen
  • Siraj
  • Jannat
  • Zille
  • Ashura
  • Lyari
  • Anarchy
  • Sahiba
  • The Karachi operation
  • Bahria Town
  • Aftershocks
  • Author's note
  • Glossary.