Karachi

كراتشي

Largest city and port of Pakistan on the Arabian Sea; first capital of the new state, it grew from the Kolachi fishing village into the country's commercial capital and home of its Urdu-speaking muhajir population.

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Region
South Asia
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Birthplace of
Bapsi Sidhwa· Benazir Bhutto· Bilquis Edhi· Edulji Dinshaw· Fawad Khan· Fehmida Mirza· Humayun Saeed· Ilyas Qadri· Junaid Jamshed· Kamila Shamsie· Mahira Khan· Maulana Nizamul Haq Thanvi· Mufti Muhammad Naeem· Maulana Imran Attari· Nazia Hassan· Pervez Hoodbhoy· Shahid Khaqan Abbasi· Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy· Shaukat Aziz· Shoaib Mansoor· Yasir Naqvi· Zoheb Hassan
Place of death of
Bilquis Edhi· Bundu Khan· Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman· Fatima Jinnah· G. M. Syed· Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah· Hakim Muhammad Said· Mehdi Hassan· Muhammad Saleemullah Khan· Muhammad Shafi Usmani· Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi· Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan· Ruth Pfau· Sadequain· Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah· Sulaiman Nadvi· Talib Jauhari
Home of
Hassam Khan· Mohammed Hanif· Owais Raza Qadri· Lady Abdullah Haroon· Zubaida Sirang
Burial place of
Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar· Muhammad Shafee Okarvi

People and things also explored

London· The Naqshbandi order· Delhi· Nazia Hassan· Zoheb Hassan· Bhutto Family Mausoleum· The Deobandi movement· Abdul Sattar Edhi

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Karachi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/karachi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-10.

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