Diverse cultures, countless spoken languages, brilliant architectural heritage, and full of history, Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is the heart of the country. 

What started out as a small fishing village, courtesy of an old fisherwoman named Mai Kolachi, has now become the most populated and largest revenue-generating city of the country. Karachi, also known as the City of Lights is the largest city, main seaport and the financial capital of Pakistan, and the capital of the province of Sindh. It is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade. Karachi is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those that are involved in textiles, shipping, automotive industry,entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research. The city is a major hub of higher education in South Asia and the wider Islamic world. Karachi is ranked as a Beta world city. Karachi enjoys its prominent position partly because of its location on a bay, making it the financial capital of the country. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Now majority people who reside outside Pakistan are always excited and filled with gratitude to pay a visit to Karachi. The best thing about Karachi is the convenience to buy absolutely everything that money can buy. SHOUT OUT TO THE FOODIES! Pakistan, generally, is home to hearty, food lovers. Karachi is not far behind when it comes to having a wide range of food eateries. The world famous Burns Road, also known as Banns Road, is a street in the very heart of the city, neighbored by the hustling and bustling of Saddar, and is famous for its traditional food items such as Nihari, Karahi, Haleem, Katakat, all sorts of barbequed Kababs, fried fish, desserts such as Rabri, and traditional drinks such as Lassi and Gannay ka Rus. Plus, Karachi is the birth city of people like Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mehdi Hassan, and Anwar Maqsood. Quite a lot of legends, that! The City of Lights houses one of the largest public transport systems of Asia, with beautifully painted trucks, buses, mini-buses, rickshaws, and Tuk-Tuks spread around in the city. Finally, why is Karachi the greatest city in Pakistan? Because it has the sea, damn it!  Not a canal or a river or a dam or a fountain, but the whole friggin’ sea! For starters, we have Clifton Beach, which in all honesty isn’t that fancy. But then we have the French Beach and Gadani, which, quite frankly, would pass as beaches of high, international standards!

Karachi is the centre of exchange and monetary exercises; in past, it was viewed as the city of lights as it was splendid and sparkling. The streets were washed consistently at night and the light posts were there to light every spot. Today’s Karachi is the inverse of what we knew about it from our guardians. The Karachi we discover today is loaded with problems. Sewerage problem is the most serious problem of the day. The streets are generally blocked as a result of chocked sewerage lines. These lines were implied for a smaller population’s needs; however with the extension of populace, they clearly turned out to be lacking. The line, which is settled today, chocks the following couple of days and in this manner, the filthy water is seen standing all over and causes ailments. Another serious problem is the deficiency of drinking water. Water is the essential need of everybody.

Karachi has long been enduring the lack of water and people are left on the mercy of Tankers. The most woeful thing is that sooner or later sewerage water blends with the drinking water. The problem is not over at this stage and when summer arrives, it aggravates further. The previous city of light is currently called the city of obscurity and darkness. The unannounced and steady power outages hits everybody. The healing centres, Factories, organizations and houses endure severely and standard work of life stops. It is height of apathy that protests are not heard or if something is done to restore power; it ends up being brief. In short we can say that problems of Karachi are various, and people are languishing and looking for a reformer to venture forward and take care of these problem.