India was to be a predominantly Hindu country while Pakistan was to have a Muslim population. The partition of the British ...

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Mira Sethi reviews "Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City" by Laurent Gayer A WSJ editor becomes a soap star in Pakistan. Mira Sethi reviews a history of Karachi.