Karachi Nights

About this episode

Welcome to Karachi Nights, a podcast about Pakistan’s famed City of Lights, its biggest and most bustling metropolis. This series dives into Karachi's forgotten nightclub era of the 60s and 70s: a dazzling scene that rivaled Beirut (the Paris of the East). Back then legendary rockers ruled the scene while Christians, Parsis, and Muslim kids mixed and mingled with foreigners, and other dreamers on the hottest dance floors. As the young country navigated its post colonial identity, a military dictatorship arose and shut it all down and changing our cultural landscape forever. Also impacted were the lives of our minority communities that were the heartbeat of this vibrant scene. In a world grappling with rising xenophobia and cultural polarization, the story of Old Karachi holds universal lessons about resilience, coexistence, cultural loss. Join Tania Mohammad and Shahjehan Khan, two Pakistani music nerds, obsessed with this moment in time. Together we'll travel back in time to Karachi's Golden era, and to the shores of North America and England today along with the legends who lived it and a few rising stars of today. We will try to understand what happened and what it all means