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Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan and the twelfth-largest city in the world. It is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Ranked as a beta-global city, it is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of $164 billion (PPP) as of 2019. Karachi is Pakistan's most cosmopolitan city, linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse, as well as one of Pakistan's most secular and socially liberal cities. With its location on the Arabian Sea, Karachi serves as a transport hub, and is home to Pakistan's two largest seaports, the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, as well as Pakistan's busiest airport, the Jinnah International Airport.
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#IndianLivesMatter goes viral in Pakistan, help offers pour inKarachi-based humanitarian group Edhi Foundation on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering a fleet of 50 ambulances and services to address the Covid crisis. For providing services, the..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Indian flight makes emergency landing in Karachi after passenger suffers cardiac arrestIndigo Flight 6E1412 was coming from Sharjah and was bound for Lucknow. The plane was at the Karachi airport for 2 hours before leaving for Ahmedabad.DNA - Published | |
Pakistan v South Africa: Debutant Nauman Ali takes 5-35 as hosts win first TestDebutant Nauman Ali claims 5-35 as Pakistan wrap up a seven-wicket win over South Africa with a day to spare in the first Test in Karachi.BBC Sport - Published | |
Pakistan v South Africa: Kagiso Rabada reaches 200 Test wicketsKagiso Rabada reached 200 Test wickets but South Africa suffered a late mini-collapse on the third day of the first Test against Pakistan in Karachi.BBC Sport - Published | |
Pakistan v South Africa: Fawad Alam hits century on day two in KarachiFawad Alam hits a century as Pakistan finish day two of the first Test against South Africa in Karachi with an 88-run lead.BBC Sport - Published | |
'Woh Hamsafar Tha' poet and lyricist Naseer Turabi passes away at 75Renowned Urdu poet, lyricist and intellectual Naseer Turabi passed away in Karachi on Sunday.DNA - Published | |
Pakistan: Hazaras intensify protest against Machh killing in KarachiThe protests, though largely peaceful, are not dying down in a country already embroiled in a deep political crisis.DNA - Published | |
Pakistani woman becomes village head in UP's Etah, probe orderedBano Begum came to India from Karachi, Pakistan, to be a part of the wedding of one of her relatives in the Etah district never to go back.DNA - Published | |
What is Navy Day? How India won 1971 war?: All you need to knowIndia observed Navy Day on Friday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending greetings to navy personnel and their families on the occasion. Indian Navy Day is celebrated every year on December 4 to..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Sri Lankan boat with 100 kg heroin seized by Indian Coast Guard; six crew members arrestedInitial investigation revealed that the contraband was transferred to the Sri Lankan boat from a Pakistani dhow from Karachi.DNA - Published | |
Sena's Sanjay Raut to Fadnavis: Wrest back PoK before talking of KarachiIndiaTimes - Published | |
Karachi will be part of India one day, says FadnavisIndiaTimes - Published | |
BSF detects tunnel, sand bags with Karachi markings at international border in JammuThe BSF team got suspicious in the Basantar area near Whaleback area Gallar in District Samba at the International Border and detected a tunnel near the border fencing.DNA - Published | D-company: In-depth look at Dawood Ibrahim's crime syndicateIn looking for a way out of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, the Imran Khan-led government in Pakistan ended up admitting that Dawood Ibrahim, India's most-wanted mobster since 1994..DNA - Published |
Indian security agencies reveal Dawood Ibrahim's passport details, hours after Pakistan admits mobster lives in KarachiAccording to the security agencies, the fugitive gangster, whose full name is Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, holds several passports that mention different names and addresses in India, Pakistan, Dubai, and..DNA - Published | India rejects Pakistan's 'absurd' comments on Karachi terror attackIndiaTimes - Published |
Had detailed discussion on Taj hotels bomb threat with CP & DCP of Mumbai police: Maha Home Minister Anil DeshmukhSecurity outside Mumbai's two Taj hotels, at Colaba and Bandra, and the nearby areas were tightened on Tuesday morning after a bomb threat call from Karachi, the Mumbai Police said on this day.DNA - Published | Mumbai: Security beefed outside Taj hotels after cops receive 26/11-like bomb threat from KarachiThe police further added that the call from Karachi came in the late hours on Monday.DNA - Published |
Taj Hotel receives bomb threat call from Pakistan; security beefedSecurity tightened outside two Taj hotels in Mumbai on Tuesday after a call was received on an intervening night threatening to blow up the hotels with bombs. The call was traced to Karachi, Pakistan..IndiaTimes - Published | Twitter abuzz in Pakistan with users claiming IAF activity near KarachiIAF sources have denied any such activity by its fighter aircraft over Pakistan.DNA - Published |
Pakistani aviation authority says PIA pilot ignored air traffic controlPakistani aviation authorities have told Pakistan International Airlines that the pilot of a passenger plane that crashed into a residential district of Karachi last month had ignored air traffic..Reuters India - Published Also reported by •Reuters | Black boxes from crashed Pakistan jet head to France for analysisAir crash investigators were en route from Pakistan to France on Monday with two 'black box' flight recorders of a Pakistani airliner that crashed in a residential area while trying to land in the port..Reuters India - Published Also reported by •Reuters |
Covid-19 Lockdown: 26 from Gujarat stranded in Pakistan seek MEA help to returnThey had gone to Karachi in February-March to attend weddings and meet relatives but were forced to stay after lockdown for coronavirus came into force in India, trains and flights were canceled and..IndiaTimes - Published | Crashed Pakistan A320 jet insured for $19.7 million: airline documentThe Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Airbus SE A320 jet that crashed into a crowded residential district of Karachi last week killing 97 people on board was insured for $19.7 million, an airline..Reuters - Published |
Crashed Pakistan plane hit runway three times on first approach, minister saysThe captain of a Pakistani airliner that crashed last week, killing 97 people on board, approached Karachi airport without announcing he couldn't open his landing gear and hit the runway three times, a..Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India | Investigators scour Pakistan air crash site for clues and cockpit voice recorderA team of Pakistani and French investigators on Wednesday sifted through the wreckage of a Pakistani airliner that crashed in the southern city of Karachi last Friday, searching for clues around what..Reuters India - Published Also reported by •Reuters |
'No Eid in our home': Pakistani families mourn crash victimsAs Fazal Rahmaan, 80 and his wife, Wahida Rahmaan, 74, boarded a plane in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday, their family's biggest fear was that they might get catch the coronavirus on their way..Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India | Death toll from Pakistan airliner crash 97, black box foundThe flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the death toll rose to 97.Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India |
PIA spokesman says blackbox recovered from Karachi plane crash siteThe flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from site of a place crash in Karachi, an airline spokesman said on Saturday.Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India | Pakistani airliner carrying 99 plunges into Karachi housesA Pakistan International Airlines Airbus jet with 99 people aboard crashed into a crowded residential district of the city of Karachi on Friday afternoon after twice trying to land at the airport, a..Reuters India - Published Also reported by •Reuters |
Karachi hospitals receive at least 56 bodies from plane crash site: hospital officialsKarachi hospitals received 56 bodies from the site of a commercial jet that crashed into a residential neighbourhood while landing in Pakistan's largest city, hospital officials said on Friday.Reuters - Published | Confirmed Pakistan plane crash death toll at 41: airline CEOAt least 41 people are confirmed to have been killed in a plane crash in a residential area of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) chief executive said on Friday.Reuters - Published |
Pakistani PIA plane carrying 99 crashes in Karachi, many feared deadAn Airbus plane with 99 on board crashed into a residential area of the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday while on approach to the airport, with at least one passenger surviving but many others..Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India | At least one passenger survived Pakistan plane crash - government officialAt least one passenger survived the crash of a Pakistani airliner that went down on Friday in a residential area of Karachi, a government official said.Reuters India - Published Also reported by •Reuters |
Karachi mayor says does not expect survivors from crashed planeThere are expected to be no survivors among those on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying 99 passengers and crew that crashed into a residential area of Karachi on Friday, the..Reuters - Published Also reported by •Reuters India | |
