Peeping into the musty pages of history, we perceive that Alexander the Great invaded Sind. Karachi itself has been identified with Deval Bunder, where one Raja Dahir ruled more than 2,000 years ago.

From the eighth century, when Sind was overrun by the Arabs, this province was under Mahomedan rulers till the British conquest in 1843.

A small port called Khatak, about ten miles from Karachi and formed by Cape Monze and the Hub River served the hinterland of Baluchistan and other inland places in the north, and when this place began to silt up, wealthy Hindu merchants abandoned it for a place known as Kalachi Kot (later changed into Karachi).

The growth of Karachi from this slender beginning is almost incredible. The city now has an area of 71.42 square miles. According to the census of 1941, the population of the city is 3,59,492, but of late there has been a steady increase, and today, the city has more than seven lakh people...

Like Bombay, Karachi is a cosmopolitan city, it contains a large number of Gujaratis, Punjabis and Goans. Trade and commerce are monopolised by outsiders...