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YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
This website is dedicated to the citizens of Karachi and it needs your input. I started this effort to help preserve our past and help retain the history of the city in public memory, but currently I am very short on time. This website is still a work in progress and it seems like it will always need more information and more additions. Karachi is a big city with a big past. There are lots of stories that still need to be told and lots of information that still needs to be input.
So how can you help?
If you find any information that is missing on a page, or if you come across more information about a particular heritage site, please type out your description and email it to me.
If you feel that the format of some section could be improved or if you have any other suggestions, email them to me as well.
If you have any old photos lying around that show old Karachi, the heritage of Karachi, or if you are a photography buff who likes to take pictures of Karachi, email me your photos! If they are good or are rare, or depict some aspect of the history of Karachi, they will definitely be added to the website along with your credits.
If you have organized any sort of a mission to restore or clean some of the heritage of your area, write to me about it!
In short, anything and everything that you know about the heritage and past of this wonderful city is a welcome contribution. Send it in!
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING PHOTOS:
Make sure they are your own! Otherwise, provide the copyright information and source with them
Try to send the highest resolution image you have available
Do scan your old family photos. They are invaluable
Make sure that any current day pictures are not black and white or toned any other way. That might confuse them with historical pictures. Therefore, pictures taken recently MUST be in full color
Email all your contributions to swerveut@gmail.com This site is for your city, and it is awaiting your input.
ABOUT ME
I was getting a lot of questions from people about who is responsible for the creation and upkeep of this website, so I am including a few lines to introduce myself.
I have been a resident of Karachi since I was born, and moved to Austin TX in 2001 for college. I have recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, but have always remained passionate about Karachi. It has a character of its own. What is sad though, is that we misuse the city and don't take much care of it. Also, most of the current population of the city has migrated here from other parts of Pakistan for the purposes of earning their bread and butter, and most people presently living in the city are unaware of the city's glorious past. Consequently, the original character and identity of our city has been eroding away and dying out due to our lack of knowledge and lack of care about it. This is why I felt a need to make people aware of the exceptional history of this amazing city so that its current citizens can learn to appreciate Karachi more, and have more value for its identity. Also, there can be no better medium than the web for making this knowledge easily accessible to all.
In my effort to create this website, I was helped a lot by my sister with photography, Zain Abbas of www.urbanpk.com with webhosting, and generous contributions by visitors to this website.
I really hope you like the site and contribute to it. Please spread word about it and help increase awareness about Karachi's past, its heritage, and its identity.
Thanks for visiting.
Saad W. Ansari
For comments, please utilize the guestbook on the home page. For contributions and corrections, please email me on the email address given above in the contributions section.