Bibliograph

Karachi Vice, life and death in a divided city, Samira Shackle

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Karachi Vice, life and death in a divided city, Samira Shackle

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Karachi Vice

Oclc number

1262667985

Responsibility statement

Samira Shackle

Sub title

life and death in a divided city

Summary

Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful, as dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power

Table Of Contents

Maps -- Political groups -- Timeline of major events -- Prologue -- Safdar -- Parveen -- Siraj -- Jannat -- Zille -- Ashura -- Lyari -- Anarchy -- Sahiba -- The Karachi operation -- Bahria Town -- Aftershocks -- Author's note -- Glossary

Target audience

adult

Classification