STREETS OF KARCHI - stock photo

The way the vegetables are being sold at Lear Market of Karachi -one of the oldest locality of city. It is about an insight to the streets of Karachi, showing people engaged in doing different sort of activities to earn their livelihood. Lea Market, a vital component of urban heritage developed in the early 20th century, is named after a British engineer Measham Lea who had extensively served in Karachi. The market is located on a trapezoidal piece of land. The area has remained in use as a wholesale trading space for vegetables, fruits and other forms of agricultural produce since 1927.