Bunder Road, Karachi (1964)

Bunder Road, Karachi (1964)
A photograph of shops on Karachi's Bunder Road taken in 1964.

An article about Pakistan in the August 1958 issue of the The Rotarian said the following about Karachi:

"Karachi presents an interesting mingling of the East and West. The cobbled lanes which wind through parts of the old city, the wayside markets where traders haggle and women bargain, the thatched refugee huts on the edge of the city, contrasts with Bunder Road, the shopping center of Saddar, with its innumerable coffee houses, and the aristocratic residential section along the Clifton Beach, which is an architect's dreams.

"All kinds of vehicles crowd its streets: cycle jinrikishas and modern diesel buses; horse-drawn buggies next to sleek taxicabs of American origin, giant trucks hauling goods beside camel and donkey carts."