The Nursery at the Edge of Karachi

Almas Kasmani grew up in Rehri Goth, a fishing village the city is slowly consuming. She is planting it back, one propagule at a time.

Rehri Goth sits where Karachi finally runs out of road and cement and gives way to mud, tidal creeks, and the smell of fish left too long in the sun. It is one of Pakistan’s oldest fishing settlements, a village that has been sending wooden boats into the Arabian Sea for centuries, now swallowed administratively into the metropolis but still visibly on …