Sunday, 13 May 2012

M H Gazdar Govt Secondary School Community and govt debate over who wants it gone

KARACHI: Adjacent to the Ranchore Lines Bazaar and hidden away in the heart of Marwari Lines is a school – the M H Gazdar Government Secondary School.


It’s been there for more than 60 years and looks like it is falling apart.

After the Partition of the Sub-continent in 1947, the Muslim Marwari Silwata Community migrated to Karachi to find work as masons and stonecutters and became known as the Silawata (‘sil’ meaning stone) Community. They settled in Marwari Lines and built the

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