 "One
day she will be the Queen of the East", said Charles
Napier a hundred year ago about Karachi. It was then only
a small village. Today Karachi bursts upon the visitor
as a vast commercial and industrial center, a sea of people
teeming with human activity, its population having already
exceeded nine million mark and still growing.
This metropolitan city of Karachi was until 1725 A.D. just a
barren piece of land , washed on three sides by the blue waters of the Arabian Sea. A few fishermen lived in a small huts on the sunny creek. There was a pool of water on this
barren piece of land which was known as Kalachi-jo-Kun. Kalachi was the name of
fisherman whereas kun meant a deep kitch. Therefore, "Kalachi-jo-Kun" meant the deep
ditch of Kalacahi, the fisherman.
A few mud huts sprang around this point and their numbers increased.
Gradually a village came into being . This village was
called as Kalachi-jo-Ghote, which as time passed grew
into prominence.
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