Karachi is home to two of the busiest ports of Pakistan, the Karachi Port and Port Qasim, it is also the largest city of Pakistan with a population of roughly 20.3 million. What interests me is the Karachi’s coastline. The whole of Pakistan has a 1050-long coast line of which 250 km falls in the Sindh province.

Out of this, Karachi has a 70km long coastline. For all intents and purposes Karachi is a city by the sea but it is very hard to discover this glaring fact by ordinary visitors as unlike other cities by the sea, Karachi has none of the distinctive signage that you see in other coastal towns.

There are no distinctive seaside food outlets with imaginative names such as I found in other cities like The Catcher’s Cove, Oceanic Delights, Seaside Feast, The Seafood Shack, SaltwaterBistro, The Clamshell, etc. It is not that there is any dearth of space for putting up these signs or opening outlets that provide quality sea food.

For as long as I can remember the road from downtown Karachi and its suburbs to........

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