Associating Lyari with only violence and crime termed an ungrateful act
(WorldNews Pakistan)

History and people of Lyari and how the once war-torn area was recovering from the ills of the gang war that persisted for several years were the subject of one of the sessions on the second day of the Karachi Conference on Saturday. The conference is being held at the Institute of Business Administration. Authors Ramzan Baloch and Umair Razzaq and educationist Abdul Jalil Ibrahim participated in the session, titled ‘Lyari Revisited’, which was chaired by scholar Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari. Baloch spoke about harmony among people that had been a constant feature of Lyari even before it was colonised by the British. According to him, the locality was inhabited by fisherfolk before it...