My favorite section of the web site. Once complete, this section shall have a varied collection of images encompassing still life, architecture, people and places. At the moment there exists only a fraction of what is to be.
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The current set of images consist mainly of Karachi, Pakistan - pictures
taken in the old quarter of Kharadar - and those taken in northern Iran.
Karachi ::. (Urdu: كراچى, Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the most populated city in Pakistan. It is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea in southeastern Pakistan, northwest of the Indus Delta. The city is the financial and commercial centre as well as the largest port of Pakistan.
The site of an ancient community of fishing villages, the modern port-city of Karachi was developed by authorities of the British Raj in the 19th century. Upon the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the city was selected to become the national capital, and was exposed to a massive influx of immigrants from India, which radically expanded the city's population and transformed the demographics and economy. Karachi has faced major infrastructural and socio-economic challenges, but modern industries and businesses have developed in the city, and the population expanded even after the capital was moved to Islamabad in 1959.
Karachi is the most ethnically and religiously diverse city in the nation. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Karachi witnessed a major influx of refugees from the war in Afghanistan, and increasing political and sectarian violence between the Punjabi and Sindhi communities, and the Mohajirs (descendants of immigrants from India). The intervention of the Pakistani army and martial law scarred the city, but a national economic boom in the early 21st century has resulted in economic growth, peace and prosperity for the city.
Kharadar ::. is one of the localities of Saddar Town in Karachi, Pakistan. Kharadar plainly means salty gate in both Sindhi and Urdu; the neighborhood might have received this name because it is situated near the Arabian Sea. There are quite a few ethnic groups in Saddar Town including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis. Over 99% of the residents are Muslim.