Thursday 21 July 2011

"karachi port history"baloch tribes established a small fishing village


The ancient Greeks were the names of many of the port of Karachi. The camp of Alexander the Great to Krokola was deported to Babylon after the battles in the Indus Valley. Admiral Alexander Nearchus sailed from Morontobara. The Barbarikon port in the Indian Greek Bactrian kingdom. And called on Arabs to the port of Karachi Debal. In 712 AD, was the starting point of the Army of Muhammad bin Qasim. Baloch tribes established a small fishing village near the site of the port of Karachi today, and their descendants are still living on the island of Abdullah Goth near the port of Karachi. In the 1550s, visited the Ottoman Admiral Sidi Ali Reis city. Reported for the first time in the port of Karachi in an article Arabic, Muhit, on the navigation on the west coast of India and the Persian Gulf region. The paper advises sailors to seek shelter in the port of Karachi, if they were in trouble. The myth of the existence of a thriving coastal town, Kharak, in the centuries to the late 18 early 17. Salt heavy rains hit the port in 1728, dealers Kharak moved to the area of ??the modern port of Karachi. Steadily grown old fishing village, and by the late 18th century, was traded soon with Muscat cross the Arabian Sea with ports in the Persian Gulf. To protect the village and the port of Karachi, traders built a fortified city they called Kolachi and armed with guns from Muscat. The new town surrounded by mud walls and 5 meters of wood with two gates, gun towers and portable. Occupied by the British East India Company is concerned about the Russian incursion in the region, and the port of Karachi in 1839 when the fort surrendered without resistance. When the region of Sindh was defeated at the Battle of Miani in 1843, and attached to the port of Karachi in the British Empire in India. Kumpany Bahadur troops entered the city in 1839, create a new partition in the city, and military camps. This was the beginning of what will be known as the "white city" in India, where it can not enter without permission. In the 1840s, made the port of Karachi, the capital of Sindh, and despite the resentment of the local population, and later became part of Bombay Presidency. Recognizing the potential importance of the port of Karachi as a military base and export outlet, put Britain at the port for shipping and lay the foundations for the municipal government and infrastructure. The city began growing rapidly. Began the modern port of Karachi to mature in 1854 when he was directing traffic, drilling and construction of a bridge linking the port with the city. The city was divided into two main sections. The "white" in the city center for Europeans, with the work and residential areas were separate. Held a "black" part of the Indian commercial city of the growing population. During the First Indian War of Independence, 21 Infantry Division, the original allied with the rebels in 1857, but was soon crushed the British uprising.In 1864, the first telegram was sent from the port of Karachi in India to England. In 1878, was connected by rail in the city with the rest of India. In the latter half of the 19th century, there have been many new buildings, including the Frere Hall and the Empress Market. Before 1876 when I was born founder of Pakistan Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in the port of Karachi, the port of Karachi, the city was crowded full of mosques, churches and civic buildings, streets paved, and the Port of impressive. Between 1856 and 1872, trade has increased dramatically in the port of Karachi. Stimulate the growth of the American Civil War so much, and the port of Karachi to export cotton, which was earlier supplied to the British textile industry of the southern states in the United States. After opening the Suez Canal in 1869, the port of Karachi, began to export oil from the region only in Balochistan province in British India (today's west central region of Pakistan). Has started the first modern docks at the port of Karachi in 1882. Before 1899, the port of Karachi, the largest port of export of cotton and wheat in the east, the city was home to more than 100,000 people. Included residents in the port of Karachi, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians, and speaking many languages ??in the streets. Included indigenous people of the port area of ??Karachi, Europeans, Persians, and Lebanese. At the beginning of the 20th century, was blocked in the port of Karachi streets, was the establishment of the first tram line in South West Asia. Britain established the Public Works installed a sewage transport and colonial rulers army camps, and a quarter of Europe, and places of organized market. Has become the port of Karachi, when she moved the capital of British India to Delhi in 1911, is more important as a gateway to India. During the First World War, and the port of Karachi, the first Indian port is important for ships to travel through the Suez Canal and the entrance to both Afghanistan and the Russian empire. Before 1914, was completed from the port of Karachi in a boat and Mole and Napier Wharf Quays East. Between 1927 and 1944, gained the port of Karachi, new facilities, which included many of the western docks, lighterage berths, and berths for ship repair. Unfortunately, the most ancient of these facilities by the year 1947. Karachi port working again as a military base important during World War II, as was the point for the supply of supplies to the Russian front. Most of the Hindu population port of Karachi when Pakistan was formed in 1947, was expelled from the country to India. By that time, the port city of Karachi a modern world with the beautiful architecture and many modern amenities. Has been chosen to be the port of Karachi, the capital of Pakistan. And reached many new residents as Muslims left India, and thus a population boom and a radical change in the culture of the city and its economy. In 1958, the country's capital was moved to Rawalpindi and Islamabad after that to 1960. This has begun to move in the decline of the port of Karachi in a new development, little has happened. In the 1970s, and work conflicts erupted in the port of Karachi industrial fields. Today, most have faded older tensions. Port of Karachi to maintain its position as an important center of industrial and financial in Pakistan, and he was dealing with more than the country's foreign trade.

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