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The conference on Karachi in 2013 was the first event arranged by a newly-created body, The Karachi Conference Foundation, designed to deliberate on all aspects of the city's life. This book, bringing together the papers presented at the Conference, represents a landmark in scholarship on the mega-city and its issues. It is always a matter of great interest to see how certain societies have developed, starting out as Stone Age sites and flourishing as throbbing urban centres. While not every stage of this process is always documented, the records of remnants collected often help in painting a

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With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta-"protection" money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicized. Karachi, often referred to as a "Pakistan in miniature," has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer's book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence "manageable" for its populations. Whether such "ordered disorder" is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and sometimes through-violence.

Ethnic conflict --- Political violence --- Ethnicity --- Muhajir (Pakistani people) --- Politics and government. --- Muttahida Quami Movement. --- Karachi (Pakistan) --- Mohajir (Pakistani people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- MQM --- Muttaḥidah Qaumī Mūvminṭ --- متّحده قومى موومنٹ --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmenṭ --- Kurrachee (Pakistan) --- Kurrachi (Pakistan) --- Karācī (Pakistan) --- Corporation of the City of Karachi (Pakistan) --- Karachi Municipal Corporation (Pakistan) --- Baldiyah-yi ʻUẓmā Karācī (Pakistan) --- KMC --- Karachi --- K.M.C. --- Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (Pakistan) --- Karācī Meṭropoliṭan Kārporeshan (Pakistan) --- City District Governmet Karachi --- Karācī Siṭī Ḍisṭrikṭ Gavarnmanṭ