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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Pakistan on the Arabian Sea. Developed as a trading center in the early 1700s, it passed to the British in 1843 and was the capital of newly independent Pakistan from 1947 until 1959.

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  • proper noun The capital of the province of Sindh, Pakistan, situated along the Arabian Sea. It is the largest city in Pakistan.

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  • noun the largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan

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  • KARACHI: Tanvir Ahmed was 11 years old when he ran away from home and got drawn into life as a sex worker on the streets of Karachi.

    The Himalayan Times RSS 2010

  • KARACHI (Reuters) - The arrest of the Afghan Taliban's top military commander in Karachi has raised concern about militants in the city but security analysts said Pakistan's commercial capital was unlikely to become an Islamist bastion.

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  • Railways official says passenger train driver ignored red signal 3 november 09 KARACHI: At least 17 people were killed and 42 others wounded when the Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express collided with a freight train near Jumma Goth, Landhi, on the outskirts of Karachi on

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  • KARACHI (AFP) - Tanvir Ahmed was 11 years old when he ran away from home and got drawn into life as a sex worker on the streets of Karachi.

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  • KARACHI, Pakistan - Stocks in Karachi fell after Pakistan's central bank decided to raise the discount rate in an effort to combat rising inflation and a widening fiscal deficit.

    Asia Times Online 2010

  • KARACHI: The continued massive foreign buying worth $10 million in this single session helped the Karachi bourse restoring above 9,600

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  • KARACHI: A bomb went off outside a Pakistan Navy office in the southern port city of Karachi, killing at least one person and injuring three others.

    The Times of India 2010

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