Revisiting the Areas of Old Town Karachi

Karachi is probably the youngest of its kind on the world’s cosmopolitan map with a history of not more than 200 years, but it has its own myths although its cultural and ethnic configuration has entirely changed. A sizable part of the two localities that begins from Sarrafa Bazaar (jewellery market) in the east and ends at Achchi Qabar in the west with an equal breadth from Kaghazi Bazaar to Maulana’s (Edhi) Hospital is said to have housed the fort of yore.