There are

bazaar A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small Market stall, stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets th ...

s in every neighborhood of

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

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. The most popular bazaars in

are: Tariq Road,

Bohri Bazaar Bohri Bazaar, also known as Bohra Bazaar, () is a bazaar located in Saddar Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest marketplaces of Karachi. Bohri Bazaar was once the most famous shopping place in Karachi. It has historical imp ...

Soldier Bazaar Soldier Bazar () is a bazaar and neighborhood in Karachi East district of Karachi, Pakistan. It was previously administered as part of Jamshed Town, which was disbanded in 2011. History Soldier Bazar was constructed in 1857 next to Mazar Rosh ...

, Sarafa Bazar,

Meena Bazaar Meenā Bāzār or Mina Bazaar (, , ) is a special bazaar to sell items to raise money for charity and non-profit organizations. It also refers to a number of modern-day shopping centres and retail stores. In the Mughal era in India During the ...

, Urdu Bazaar, etc. There are generally thousands of small individually-owned or family-owned shops and stalls in each old style

Bazaar A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small Market stall, stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets th ...

or shopping area. Only some of the newly built

shopping malls A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generi ...

in the suburban areas of city of Karachi may be managed by a large organization or a commercial company.

Saddar Town Saddar Town (صدر ٹاؤن) lies in the Karachi District (South), Karachi District South that forms much of the historic colonial core of Karachi, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. According to the 2023 Pakistani census, Saddar Subdivision ...

area is the old central shopping area in

. Main streets for your shopping pleasure are

Abdullah Haroon Road Sir Abdullah Haroon (1 January 1872 – 27 April 1942) () (also spelled Seth Haji Sir Abdoola Haroon) was a British Indian politician and businessman who made major contributions towards developing and defining the role of Muslims in econom ...

Zaibunnisa Street Zaibunnisa Street or Elphinstone Street (former name) (), is a thoroughfare and a shopping center in central Karachi, Pakistan that courses through Saddar, the city's colonial-era commercial centre. It is believed to have been renamed after Z ...

, Zainab Market and

. For meats and groceries, you can head to the

Empress Market The Empress Market (, Sindhi: ايمپريس مارڪيٽ) is a marketplace situated in the Saddar Town locality of Karachi, Pakistan. The market traces its origins to the British Raj era, when it was first constructed. Today, it is amongst t ...

. This is a vast

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structure in

Mughal Mughal or Moghul may refer to: Related to the Mughal Empire * Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries * Mughal dynasty * Mughal emperors * Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia * Mughal architecture * Mug ...

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style, with a domineering 50 meters high clock tower in the front center of the building. Empress Market houses hundreds of shops and stalls so shoppers would have plenty of choice and a wide variety of consumer goods.No hope of early renovation of Empress Market
Daily Times (newspaper), published 25 July 2017, Retrieved 6 April 2018

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