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Karachi: Megacity of Our Times
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CONTENTS LIST; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1; HOW IT ALL BEGAN; HAMIDA KHUHRO; 2; THE MAKING OF A COLONIAL PORT; HAMIDA KHUHRO; 3; THE HALCYON YEARS; HAMIDA KHUHRO; 4; THE CAPITAL OF PAKISTAN; HAMIDA KHUHRO; 5; THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF MODERN KARACHI; MUNEEZA SHAMSIE; 6; AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; SHAHIDA WIZARAT; 7; THE GROWTH OF A METROPOLIS; ARIF HASAN; 8; HALF A CENTURY OF TRENDS; NOMAN AHMED; 9; THE LITERARY SCENE-ENGLISH I; TARIQ RAHMAN; 10; THE LITERARY SCENE-ENGLISH II; NOTES AND REFERENCES; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

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Dr Hamida Khuhro was educated at the Universities of Karachi, Cambridge, London and Oxford. She is a historian and has taught at the Universities of Karachi, Oxford and lastly Sindh University where she was Professor of History. She left University teaching to concentrate of writing and politics. She has twice served as Minister for Education and Literacy, Government of Sindh. She has also served as Member and Chairperson of a large number of political, academic and government committees. She has published a number of books including Making of Modern Sindh, Mohammad Ayub Khuhro: Life of Courage in Politics, The Making of Modern Sindh, and has edited many books including Sindh through the Centuries, Papers of the Separation of Sind from Bombay Presidency and a number of memoirs etc. Anwer Mooraj was educated in India and England and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He started his journalistic career in Dawn in the 1960s as an assistant editor, was the founding editor of The Herald in 1970 and served as chief executive of the Gulf News, Dubai from 1982 to 1985. He is widely travelled and is the author of three books Sand, Cacti and People (1965) Wild Strawberries and Harbour Lights (1992), and co-editor with Dr Hamida Khuhro of the first edition of Karachi Megacity of Our Times (1997). He is a management expert and his last assignment was as chief executive of The Pakistan American Cultural Center-the world's largest bi-national centre which he served from 1990 to 2004.

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