Karachi City on the edge

THE HINDU - From the 17th floor of Avari Towers you get a bird’s eye view of Karachi, and Dinshaw Avari, director of the hotel, knows his city well. In the hazy distance he points out Jinnah’s tomb and down below the red tiled roof of what was once Ruttie Jinnah’s house, now a museum. A disused racecourse speaks volumes for the present times and the city sprawls up to the distant hills and the orderly slum of Orangi beyond. Dinshaw’s parents won the gold in the Enterprise class sailing

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