Requiem for Karachi: Pakistan. (social, political, economic deterioration)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 13, 1994 | Copyright information

The port city's continued political, social and economic deterioration threatens the wellbeing of the entire country. Bad government and low investment has resulted in high unemployment. The rich flock to better neighborhoods while the poor riot.

"OUR beloved city of Karachi is dying," mourns an advertisement by the Committee for Citizen's Welfare in the city's leading newspaper, "please hurry and register with us, or else the deluge."

That Karachi is in a bad way is not news. In the 1980s weapons destined for the Afghan war started falling into the hands of Pakistanis more ...

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