Ali Bhutto

Cruelty and chaos in Karachi

Two journalists report on the violence simmering beneath a city where the lines between crime and law enforcement are constantly blurred

A mother mourns her six-year-old daughter who was raped and murdered in Karachi in April 2018. Credit: Getty Images

  • Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

    Samira Shackle

    Granta, pp. 272, £14

  • The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation

    Declan Walsh

    Bloomsbury, pp. 352, £20

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