Burns Road (also spelled Burnes Road, and formally known as Muhammad Bin Qasim Road) is a

street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...

located in

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...

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. It is well-known in the city for its many restaurants and street food vendors.

History

Burns Road was named after the Scottish doctor and spy, James Burnes, who worked in

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in 19th century. After the foundation of Pakistan, the name of street was officially changed to Muhammad Bin Qasim Road, after Arab military commander

Muhammad bin Qasim Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqāfī ( ar, محمد بن القاسم الثقفي; –) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (part of modern Pakistan), inaugurating the Umayya ...

. The street has restaurants that were founded in the 1940s. The street is considered a

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and is home to people of different ethnicities, including

Punjabi Saudagaran-e-Delhi The Punjabi Saudagaran-e-Delhi ( ur, پنجابی سوداگران دہلی ), sometimes referred to as the Qaum-e-Punjabian (Urdu: قوم پنجابیان), Delhi Walay ( ur, دہلی والے ), Aldehlawi ( ar, الدهلوي ), or simply ...

Memons The Memon are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that originated in the Sindh region of Pakistan. The majority of the Memon people around the world follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. The Memon people have cultural similarities with the Khoja, Khat ...

Gaddis The Gaddi is a semi-pastoral Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic tribe living mainly in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Overview The origin of the Gaddi Tribe is Gaderiya (Dhangar) they also additionally believe that ...

, and Qureshi Baradri.

Notable retailers

* Fresco Sweets * Delhi Rabri House * Waheed Kabab House

References

{{reflist Restaurants in Karachi Streets in Karachi Food markets Karachi South District