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Karachi
Karachi is Pakistan's beating economic heart — a sprawling, chaotic, magnificent port city of over 20 million souls perched at the edge of the Arabian Sea. Born as a fishing hamlet called Kolachi in 1729, transformed by British colonialism into the Empire's largest grain-exporting port, and then remade overnight by the tidal wave of Partition refugees in 1947, Karachi is a city that has never stopped reinventing itself. It is simultaneously the birthplace of Pakistan's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the home of sacred crocodile shrines, the source of the world's best Sindhi biryani, and the engine that generates nearly half of Pakistan's national tax revenue. Chaotic and contradictory, it is a city that overwhelms before it seduces — and once it seduces, it never lets go.
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