Old pictures of Pakistani Cities

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McHinch Memorial Seamen’s Rest provided reading rooms and refreshments for seamen of all classes and creeds, as well as was a place for Sailors' Home.​

Built by the Karachi Port Trust in 1904. An amount of Rs. 11,102 was raised to commemorate the late Mr. Alexander McHinch, who was a very well-known merchant of the city and was chairman of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce.

Further contributions came from the Port Trust Rs. 8,386, the Municipality Rs. 3,000, the Chamber of Commerce Rs. 3,350, and Government Rs. 5,000. It costed Rs. 30,833.
Courtesy Sohail Ansari

 

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Karachi



1970's

 

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Karachi Saddar Post Office .

 

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Karachi Harbor 1910

 

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Hamdard, Karachi

 

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Karachi

 

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Saddar area

 

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Karachi

 

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Looking towards Sind Club and the Frere Hall. The road curves where the Clifton Bridge was built later.
Karachi, 1900s,,,

 

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Karachi.
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed's first clinic in Karachi.

 

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Karachi 1972

 

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(GPO) General Post Office, Lahore c.1933.

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A good location, similar to other pictures I saw in this thread
We find ourselves even more wealthy in South Asia till 1930s-40s

Here, if we see pictures of other non-South Asian members, being posted here, I find only this thread to maintain our "honour"

 

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Karachi PC 1970's


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A good picture
Now We find new shops in place of our these old infrastructure now......

Here, I'm not sure how these foreign investment reduced our "Life Satisfaction rating" since then?
How's losing these old infrastructure of South Asia to new ones is justified?

 

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Karachi 1961

 

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Karachi Cantt. Railway Station, 1902.