Karachi, Pakistan’s troubled heart, is known to cast a seductive spell over residents and visitors alike. In Karachi Vice, the award-winning journalist Samira Shackle writes that the city’s penchant for extremity and eccentricity kept luring her back from London for almost a decade. During these visits, made between 2012 and 2019, she navigates the darkest corners of the metropolis’s maze and documents some of the lives that exist on the peripheries of society.
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

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