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In spite of its sprawling unloveliness, Karachi is a bustling port (third biggest in India) and a center of the leather trade. The population swelled to almost 600,000 in recent years.
Last week Jinnah surveyed the city in which he was born. There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi.
*British soldiers chant the words to the tune El Abanico, a Spanish march.