Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "تاریخ یهودیان در پاکستان" in Persian language version.
In 1911 they constituted 0.3 per cent of the city’s population and at the time of partition their number had reached 2,500.
When in 1948 Israel came into being a lot of Jews migrated to Israel, and after the Arab-Israel war a majority of them left the city.
In a paper titled "Karachi Ke Yahudi" ("Jewish Karachi"), Kalmatti indicated that Jews arrived in Karachi from Maharashtra (now the state in western India that includes Mumbai) in the 19th century – when, of course, there was no Pakistan, as the British ruled over all of the Indian subcontinent.
