1/4/2023 0 Comments Sindhi rasoi![]() This building faced at least four terrorist attacks between 20 and survived them all. The visa section was moved to Islamabad, before returning to Karachi in 2012 (in a different building and compound). ![]() (Photo courtesy of eBay.)Ĭompleted in the late 1950s, the building became an iconic structure on Karachi’s Abdullah Haroon Road.Īpart from having a busy visa section, it also housed a state-of-the-art projection hall and a widespread library, which was used by generations of Karachi’s school and college students before it was closed down in the late 1990s.Įasy to access across the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s – the building was gradually barricaded and heavily fortified after the tragic September 11 episode in 2001. It (in a tongue-in-cheek manner) addresses those traveling to Karachi and getting injured during a ‘camel crash.’Īmerican Embassy building under construction in Karachi, 1957. The trend hit a peak in the late 1970s before starting to dwindle and peter out in the mid-1980s. The number of American and British tourists visiting Pakistan began to grow from the early 1960s. ![]() This is a 1967 press ad published in LIFE magazine for the American insurance company, Continental Insurance. It regularly featured in all the prestigious top-10-airline lists for over 20 years, before dropping out in the mid-1980s. ![]() PIA was one of the first airlines in the world to introduce in-flight entertainment. Ī series of apartment blocks, bungalows, fast-food joints and restaurants have sprung up in the area today – but no tourists, especially not the bikini-wearing kind.Ī 1964 PIA press ad featuring famous Hollywood comedian and actor Bob Hope. Pakistani fans and artistes gather around the main cast of Bhowani Junction on the film’s sets in Lahore.Īmerican tourists enjoy a camel ride at Karachi’s Clifton beach in 1960. Ava Gardner shooting a scene at the Lahore Railway Station in 1954. ![]()
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