Old pictures of Pakistani Cities

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Karachi

 

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Karachi port, 1950

 

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Karachi 1930

 

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Peshawar 1980's

 

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Bohri Bazar, Karachi 1960's

 

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Mall road Lahore, 1968

 

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Karachi 1985.

 

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Elphinstone Street. Karachi 1910

 

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Manan Chowk, Suraj Gung Bazar, Quetta, 1950's

 

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Mall road Lahore, 1968

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Beetle appears to have been a popular car.

 

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Karachi

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Some type of house of worship?

 

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Murree, Punjab, Now Pakistan, 1861 (c).

An early John Burke photograph captioned "View of the Murree Hills," shows William Baker's Peshawar business and branch office, which opened in Murree in 1861.

© John Burke / Philip Thornton

Restored photo and colorized, right?

Buildings are stunning.

 

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Some type of house of worship?

Looks like Frere Hall

Bohri Bazar, Karachi 1960's

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Literally a block or two away from our apartment when I was a kid. I used to walk past/through it on my way to school

 

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Looks like Frere Hall



Literally a block or two away from our apartment when I was a kid. I used to walk past/through it on my way to school

Nice.

BTW, nice school you went to as well.

 

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Nice.

BTW, nice school you went to as well.

Thanks.

I am sure there is more choice now but, in those days, the upper middle class kids went to Karachi Grammar School, while regular middle class kids like me went to one of the convent schools -- St, Paul's, St. Patrick's, or St. Joseph's (girls only) -- or to Parsi (Zoroastrian) run schools (BVS for boys and Mama Parsi for girls).

These schools provided the same quality education as KGS for a fraction of the cost. KGS had a bit of a reputation as a place for spoiled rich kids who already had a ticket to wealth anyway, LOL.

The kids from really wealthy families went to the Karachi American School but that was on a different level entirely.