Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

With a population exceeding twenty million Karachi is one of the worlds largest megacities. It is also one of the most violent. Since the mid 1980s Karachi has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence which revolve around control of the city and its resources. These struggles for the city have become ethnicised in the process Karachi often referred to as a Pakistan in miniature has become increasingly fragmented socially as well as territorially.