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*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/largeimage57526.html Bird's eye view Napier Barracks Karachi c 1900] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho000000425u00027000.htm description] [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/largeimage57527.html A second view c 1900] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho000000425u00028000.htm description] British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.telstudies.org/discussion/service_years/karachi_photos.shtml Snapshots of Drigh Road RAF Depot, Karachi, now PAF Base Faisal] c 1927. [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]] , as Aircraftman T E Shaw, was stationed here in 1927-1928. telstudies.org. Retrieved 21 August 2014
*"Every Day A Bonus" by Ken Clarke from ''Regimental Association of The Queen's Own Buffs (PWRR): The Journal''issues No 11-14 Autumn 2005- Spring 2007. The pages covering the voyage to India in 1933, time in India, and voyage back to England in 1938 are (11)48-49; (12)29-39; (13)15-25; (14)38.:[http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-11-Autumn-2005.pdf Issue 11], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-12-Spring-2006.pdf 12], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-13-Autumn-2006.pdf 13], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-14-Spring-2007.pdf 14] thequeensownbuffs.com:Issue 13 includes his experiences with the [[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment]] in Karachi.*"Last stop Karachi 1946!'' " by John ‘Dusty’ Miller [https://web.archive.org/web/20140624065252/http://www.qissa-khwani.com:80/2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946.html Part 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20161221004433/http://www.qissa-khwani.com/2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946_16.html Part 2]. He was a driver in the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] and was in India 1945-1947, his last posting in Karachi. www.qissa-khwani.com, now archived.
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-K.htm#Karachi RAF Karachi] (including Drigh Road) rafweb.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-M.htm#Mauripur RAF Mauripur], in the vicinity of Karachi. rafweb.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014
====Historical books online====
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''An Account of the Kurachee Municipality, from Its Commencement to the 1st Jan. 1860''] by A F Bellasis, late Collector and Magistrate of Kurachee. 1860 Google Books*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036228#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&z=0%2C-256.4058%2C2842%2C2800.8116 ''The Sind Directory. With a map ... Also, a plan of Kurrachee ... A general description of the Punjab, etc.''] by George Bease 1862 British Library Digital Collection. Note: There do not appears to be any maps.**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036228#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=269&z=0%2C-256.4058%2C2842%2C2800.8116 A List of the European and Eurasian Inhabitants in Sind at 1st April 1862] page 252*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005D3D8 ''The Tourist's Guide from Delhi to Kurrachee, describing the various towns ... commerce: railways: river communications: &c: &c: with a map'']. Lahore [c 1865?]. British Library Digital Collection*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.110482/page/n3/mode/2up ''Kurrachee: Past Present And Future''] by Alexander F Baillie 1890. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7678/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] with images correctly rotated. Archive.org. [http://www.newsanipanhwar.dlicom/Kurrachee%20Past%20Present%20and%20Future%20.pdf Another version] transcribed by sanipanhwar.com*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.ernetorg.Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities inIndia (Bombay, Calcutta, '''Karachi''', Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, Singapore, Penang and Shanghai, and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/handlen5/2015mode/548423 2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org* ''The Karachi Handbook & Directoryfor 1922-23''] edited by Sir Montague de P Webb 1922. Pdf downloadPublished by ''The Daily Gazette'', Karachi. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548423/page/n17 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The print quality of some pages is poor.
=====Booklets=====
* [http://www.cbi-theater.com/karachi/karachi.html ''Guide to Karachi]'' Booklet produced for US Soldiers during WWII. cbi-theater.com
====Video====
* [http://www.chaltatv.com/video/14368/Christian-Cemetery-Karachi-Pakistan-BBC-Report Christian Cemetery, Karachi] BBC Urdu report (in Urdu)
* [httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOhCaFkojhY&sns=fb A Very Rare Old G9wfetvoanI Karachi Video 1942 and Bombay at the End of the Raj] as seen by a British Soldiersoldier sometime between 1942 and 1947: (updated commentary from the earlier posting [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtldMcawFA Karachi at the End of the Raj] You TubeYouTube video* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CRiJs7vXWg Churches of Karachi] Short documentary on their construction/architecture (in Urdu) on youtube
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