Karachi’s Prostitution Economy Is a Government Business

The city arrests women on its roads while poverty supplies them, customers use them, traffickers control them, and police power keeps the market profitable.

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A woman waits beside a commercial road in Defence and a car slows beside her. That is the part Karachi sees. It sees the lowered window, the few words exchanged over traffic, the woman getting in or stepping back, and perhaps a police mobile turning into the lane. The city sees enough to become offen…