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Pakistan military chief, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, had come to power through a military coup. Restaurants and eateries offering spicy North Indian dishes had begun to come up here and by the s, the area would become a famous food street — but highly populated and congested. By the s, though it remained famous for its eateries, it was mostly populated by lower-middle-class segments of Karachi.

New buildings housing the Karachi Stock Exchange, banks, insurance companies, newspaper offices, other financial institutions and advertising agencies sprang up. Between and , streets of this area were regularly washed with water. Later, the area was renamed II Chundrigar Road and has become extremely congested and polluted. The city eventually witnessed its first Mohajir-Pashtun riot in However, Karachi was the only city which voted against Ayub.

In the s, Pakistan International Airlines rapidly emerged as one of the top airlines in the world and the Karachi Airport became "the gateway to Asia". The Intercontinental Hotel was a popular high-end hotel in a city enjoying an economic boom and a rising number of foreign dignitaries, business personnel and tourists arriving for work and play to Karachi.

The hotel was re-named Pearl Continental in the s. It is now mostly surrounded by tall barricades and security guards due to rise of terrorism and militancy in the city from onward.

The community had grown in size in the early s, but began to shrink from the s onward. By the s, only a handful of Jews remained in Karachi. They completely vanished after late s moving abroad.

But this boom had a flip side to it as well. It also created severe economic disparities and gaps between classes and the expansion of slums like this one.

The slums did not have any running water, sewerage system or electricity and were riddled with poverty, rising crime and alcoholism. These tensions were expressed by an intense anti-Ayub movement in , largely orchestrated by left-wing student outfits, labour unions and populist political parties.

The movement forced Ayub to resign in early The Bhutto regime would also go on to build walls around such slums to stem their physical growth. In , the Ayub regime reverted it to "Republic of Pakistan". In , the inscription was changed back to the simple "Pakistan Passport". This was changed in to "Islamic Republic of Pakistan" by the Bhutto regime now written only in Urdu and English, because the Bengali-dominated East Pakistan had broken away in This has remained, even though the Musharraf regime did try to revert the inscription back to "Republic of Pakistan", but his move was opposed by conservative opposition parties.

The community was largely Catholic and its ancestors had begun to arrive in Karachi in the early s. Most had come from Goa where they had been converted to Christianity by Portuguese colonialists. The late s and s were the heydays of Christian pop bands, and most Christian youth made their living through this.

However, after nightclubs were closed down in April and a reactionary dictatorship came to power in July , such bands struggled to find work. Many from these bands slipped into depression and alcoholism and died young, or migrated abroad. Though it was still being called the Wall Street of Pakistan, the economy of the country which had boomed in the early and mids had already begun to falter. Major industries and capital, which were concentrated in private hands, began to take flight and were stashed abroad after the Bhutto regime implemented its so-called socialist policies.

Most banks and insurance companies situated on this road were nationalised and fell into disarray. The economy also struggled to come to terms with the dramatic rise in global oil prices. The s were a surreal and flamboyant era in the city. Pakistan's first nuclear-powered plan, which Bhutto inaugurated in Karachi in , is still operational. The iconic Nishat Cinema thrived in the s and even survived the impact of the VCR invasion in the s.

However, in the s, it was completely destroyed and set on fire by militant mobs incited by religious outfits. It has not been reconstructed. Saddar had been an upscale shopping area during British Raj. By the s, it began to fall into disarray and suffer severe congestion.

Today, it is a pale and an ill reflection of what it used to be. Karachi always had a prominent fishing industry fisheries , and it still does. However, ironically, it is perhaps the only major coastal city in the world where seafood is not all that popular. This is mostly due to the fact that after the creation of Pakistan in , the majority group of the city was made up of refugees arriving from various cities and towns of India.

Many of these cities and towns were landlocked and never fully developed a taste for seafood. The Bhutto regime regularised many such slums by providing their residents land ownership and some amenities. Bhutto also got walls built around the slums to stem their growth, but the increasing rate of population in Karachi, inflation, and unemployment, could not stem swelling of poverty and economic desperation.

Criminal gangs dealing in drugs mostly hashish , prostitution, pick-pocketing, gambling and black marketing grew two-fold in such slums, one of which was situated in the Lyari area. Pakistan International Airlines continued to grow into a world-class airline, and was making handsome profits since the mids.

Karachi Airport, too, remained one of the busiest in the region, accommodating flights belonging to all the leading airlines of the world. But from the late s onwards, the airline began to face a gradual decline. Its quality of service deteriorated and by the s, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. It still is. The airport in Karachi, too, lost out its "gateway to Asia" status to Dubai.

And due to rising incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, traffic at the airport was drastically reduced, despite the fact that the airport was shifted to a brand new building in With rising violence in Beirut in the mids, the Bhutto regime planned to divert the wealthy European and Arab tourists from the crumbling casinos of Beirut to Karachi.

By , both buildings were almost complete when Bhutto was overthrown in a reactionary military coup. Work on the hotel and casino was halted. The empty casino building was finally torn down in the s, whereas the incomplete structure of the hotel still stands, rather aimlessly.

The so-called recreational wealth that Bhutto was trying to attract to Karachi eventually moved to Dubai. Its appearance symbolised a brief respite from economic turmoil which the city had fallen into in the late s. A new class of nouveau-riche began to emerge, which was comfortable with combining the accumulation of wealth and material exuberance with exhibitions of public piety encouraged by the Zia dictatorship.

Many members of this new class could be found holding business lunches and dinners at the Taj Mahal. The hotel still exists but in a more depleted state. It is now called the Regent Plaza and has become a 2-star resort. Much of this area, located along the Clifton Beach, had just been about the sea, sand and shrubs. But in the early s, town-houses and small bungalows began to come up, mostly catering to the growing middle-class sections of Karachi.

Today, it has become a widespread residential area with shopping malls, exotic restaurants and tall office buildings. However, the sea water here has become extremely polluted. It also has an excellent medical university attached to it. The first picture is from and second from He began a "bottom-up community development program" in Orangi which, at the time, was a large slum. He often got into tussles with the many land-grabbing, extortion and drug gangs operating here.

But the Orangi Pilot Project was a huge success. Situated off Shara-e-Faisal Road in Karachi, it was inaugurated in and was the first hockey ground in the country to have an Astroturf field.

The club held various international tournaments between and Most of them were won by Pakistan which was a force in international field hockey between the s and early s. The Hockey Club of Pakistan stopped holding international events. The last major event here was actually a pop concert in On April 15, , year-old Mojahir student Bushra Zaidi was run over by a bus while getting off a mini-bus. The accident sparked a series of deadly riots between the Mohajirs and the Pakhtuns of Karachi.

Hundreds of people lost their lives. These riots triggered a cycle of ethnic conflicts which became an uncomfortable norm in the city.

Drug and land-grabbing mafias became interwoven with corrupt security personnel and some politicians and guns became easily available on the black market. This was also the start of ethnic ghettoisation in Karachi, in which ethnic communities began residing in areas mostly populated by their respective ethnic group.

Karachi was the destination of the first-ever Emirates flight to Pakistan, which arrived from Dubai. Ironically, from the late s, as Emirates was beginning its gradual rise, Pakistan International Airlines had already begun its eventual decline.

The militants had entered the plane dressed as security personnel. They shot dead an airhostess from India, Neerja Bhanot, before Pakistani army commandos entered the plane in the dead of the night. Twenty passengers lost their lives in the gun fight between the commandos and the militants.

The dead included Indian, Mexican, American and Pakistani passengers. The militants were captured alive. The World Cup was the first major cricket tournament held in Pakistan jointly held with India. Both Pakistan and India reached the semi-finals of the event but lost.

Australia beat England in the final to win its first cricket World Cup trophy. It would go on to win it four more times! The National Stadium had a history of crowd trouble. But when in , the stadium was upgraded and a roof constructed over the general stands to keep out the angry Karachi sun , incidents of pitch invasion and crowd violence decreased dramatically. Heroin addiction was almost non-existent in Karachi till But by the end of the s, Karachi had one of the largest number of addicts in Pakistan, numbering in millions.

Heroin first began proliferating in the metropolis when it was introduced by drug peddlers, who had accompanied Afghan refugees arriving in Karachi after the start of the Afghan Civil War in December Peddlers first handed out the drug free of cost calling it meethi chars sweet hashish. Users were not told it was physically addictive. But once the users were hooked, the peddlers began to charge them. Growth in drug addiction also led to more violent drug gangs and crime among addicts who soon ran out of money to satisfy their addiction.

In this comparison we focus our interest over the city of Karachi. It is the heart of the Pakistani economy, crossed by the Indus River and has experienced enormous expansion over the last few decades. Karachi has quickly become the second most populous city in the world after Shanghai.

This comparison of Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 images, shows the urban development of the city during the last 29 years, and highlights the large increase of urbanisation in the north west and south east of the original city area. Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals or third party mission free catalogue , where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community.

View large format slider. Karachi, Pakistan. Karachi, Pakistan Karachi is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Karachi Overlay images In this comparison we focus our interest over the city of Karachi.