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One day she will be the Queen of
the East", said Charles Napier a hundred year ago about Karachi.
It was then only a small village. Today Karachi bursts upon the
visitor as a vast commercial and industrial center, a sea of people
teeming with human activity, its population having already exceeded
nine million mark and still growing.
This metropolitan city of Karachi was until 1725
A.D. just a barren piece of land , washed on three sides by the blue
waters of the Arabian Sea. A few fishermen lived in a small huts on
the sunny creek. There was a pool of water on this barren piece of
land which was known as Kalachi-jo-Kun. Kalachi was the name of
fisherman whereas kun meant a deep kitch. Therefore, "Kalachi-jo-Kun"
meant the deep ditch of Kalacahi, the fisherman.
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