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My friend my dad was in Karachi of late 1950s. Karachi was incrediblyu clean, well planned city with only some slums of the recently arrived mohajirs from India. Apparently the military regime of Ayub Khan launched massive housing projects to house them. However you must bear in mind that the British had just left. What you saw then was shadow of the British. In addition massive US aid/grants/loans during Ayub era propped up the Pakistani economy giving rise to a bubble that was artificial and dependant on aid. Pakistan has never recieved that level of financial support since.We were quite ahead in 60s and 70s. Then 80s and Zia happened and we went back 50 years. The stories I hear from my father of the Karachi of the 60s and early 70s are so cool. It was no less than Beirut or Cairo, with drive in cinemas and jazz nights in hotels.
Graph below demonstrates my point. Note the aid in mid 1950s through to 1960s. Read this graph with the knowledge that Pakistan's population in 1950s was four times less. So that aid per capita during that period would have been four times more then what we see during 2000s.