The VICE Guide to Karachi | The VICE Guide to Travel. One of Pakistan’s famous decorative buses gets hit by one of Karachi’s infamous outbursts of violence. Photo by Zia Mazhar/Associated Press. Interviewing a “target killer” in Karachi was probably the scariest thing I’ve done in my 17 years at VICE. His gun sat between my feet in the backseat of our car as we drove in circles around his neighborhood.
After our chat about killing people for a living, I felt like vomiting for three hours. So who hires these people? On the outskirts of Karachi, children search for scraps in one of the largest garbage dumps in the world, which is next door to what is rumored to be one of the mafia’s favorite hiding spots for its kidnap victims, Surjani Town. I have visited Pakistan many times and know my way around the rest of the country, but this was my first time working in Karachi. Karachi has a rich history of violence, dating back to 1947, when Pakistan rose from the ashes of the British Empire.
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