I have always come across Karachi in places I can never expect. While walking in Colombo, Sri Lanka, I came across the Karachi Restaurant which was offering Nihari for breakfast. I was checking on Google maps, where I found out atleast 7 streets in the world named after Karachi (listed in Appendix below). For example look at the photo to the right. This book title Assignment Karachi comes up everytime you search for a book on Karachi at amazon.com. But the funniest way that I have ever across Karachi was in professional wrestling.
I was reading a Wrestling blog (yes i am a big fan of wrestling and i know that it is fake) where I noticed a wrestling stable or gang known as the Karachi Vice. I thought for a moment that it must be the name of a new political party and wondered if our politicians have finally seen the light but this feeling was short lived. The Karachi Vice wrestling guys were pretty active in the 70s and 80s. See their photo to the left. And you know what, now the kids of Karachi Vice guys have started their own wrestling group called the New Karachi Vice.
This group was active in Stampede Wrestling which is a famous name in Canadian Wrestling circles. As per Gama Singh, the leader of the gang
Everybody still talks about the Karachi Vice…It was an accidental thing, how it came about. There was myself and Mike Shaw, who I had changed his name to Makhan Singh, and we had Steve DiSalvo and Kerry Brown. I think we were all doing an interview together, we did a few interviews for a few weeks in a row, and then it just sort of came out. ‘This is the Karachi Vice’, because Miami Vice, the TV show, was quite hot at the time. And then the people just picked up from that. The following week, we saw all kinds of signs coming out — Karachi Ice, Karachi Mice and that sort of thing [laughing]. We just kind of followed through and kept it going from there. It became quite a hot thing for a couple of years at least.
Following is the photo of the New Karachi Vice.
Have you come across Karachi in strange places?
Appendix
1. Karachi Street, Midway Point, Tasmania, Australia
2. Karachi Street, Crestmead, Queensland, Australia
3. Karachi Way, Socorro, TX, United States
4. Karachi Street, West Bloomfield Township, MI,
5. Karachi Close, Tidworth, United Kingdom
6. Karachi Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand
7. Karachi Street, Lenasia, Gauteng, South Africa
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Unfortunately it was out of stock so I couldn’t get it. Nice bag though.
Karachi in records
Longest continuous distance at sea: There are several possible ways to travel along a great circle for more than the antipodic length of 19,840 km. Some good examples of such routes would be:
From the south coast of Balochistan province somewhere near Port of Karachi, Pakistan (25°25′N 66°25′E / 25.417°N 66.417°E / 25.417; 66.417) across the Arabian Sea, south-west through Indian Ocean, near Comoros, passing Namaete Canyon, near the South Africa coastline, across the South Atlantic Ocean, then east across Cape Horn, then north-west across Pacific Ocean, near Easter Island, passing the antiopodal point, near Amlia Island, through the South Breang Sea and ending somewhere on the east-north coast of Kamchatka near Ossora (59°38′N 163°24′E / 59.633°N 163.4°E / 59.633; 163.4). This route is almost 32,000 km long.[citation needed]
From the south coast of Hormozgan province, Iran (25°35′N 58°22′E / 25.583°N 58.367°E / 25.583; 58.367) across the Gulf of Oman, south-east across the Arabian sea, passing south of Australia and New Zealand, near the Antarctic coastline, then north-east across the South Pacific Ocean, passing the antipodal point and ending on the Mexican south-west coast somewhere near Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (17°57′N 101°57′W / 17.95°N 101.95°W / 17.95; -101.95). This route is at least 24,500 km long.[citation needed]
From Invercargill (46°37′S 168°59′E / 46.617°S 168.983°E / -46.617; 168.983), New Zealand, across Cape Horn, then off the coast of Brazil close to Recife, passing north of Cape Verde, passing the antipodal point and ending somewhere on the south-west coast of Ireland (52°09′N 6°34′W / 52.15°N 6.567°W / 52.15; -6.567). This route is approximately 21,000 km long
Karachi Bombay Restaurant I saw in Zurich, Switzerland.
And Rabbi Shergill’s song “Karachi valie”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjwYs0MWdg
There is a Cuban music group by the name of “los Karachi”. Their video can be see on Youtube. Here is one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77BWrYRqqkg&feature =related