The single most useful piece of pest biology a Karachi bed bug operator can internalise is the species name. The bed bugs we collect from a Clifton boutique hotel, a DHA Phase 4 master bedroom, a Saddar staff hostel, and a Bahria Town serviced apartment are — across roughly nineteen out of every twenty jobs we have field-IDed under magnification across the last eighteen months — Cimex hemipterus, the tropical bed bug. They are not Cimex lectularius, the common bed bug that dominates temperate Europe and North America, that the older online guidance was written about, and that the off-the-shelf deltamethrin and bifenthrin protocols were calibrated against. The two species look almost identical to the naked eye, share an overlapping host range, and produce indistinguishable bite reactions, but they differ in pronotum shape, body proportions, climate tolerance, and, operationally most important, in their resistance profile to pyrethroid insecticides. Cimex hemipterus pyrethroid resistance is the reason most "we sprayed and they came back" calls in Karachi end up on our service van. This page is the field-ID and chemistry briefing we wish every operator in Pakistan was working from — what the species is, where it lives, how to tell it from its cousin, what the research says about why deltamethrin fails on it, and which chemistry and physical methods actually close the job [citation needed].
We are writing this for two audiences. For pest control operators across Karachi and the wider Pakistan market, this is the practical species briefing that should sit behind every quote: assume Cimex hemipterus, assume pyrethroid resistance, lead with heat or Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC, never with a deltamethrin-only protocol. For Karachi households and hospitality operators reading this after a failed treatment somewhere else, this is the explanation of why the previous spray did not work — the biology is not a mystery, the resistance is documented in the peer-reviewed literature, and the answer is a different chemistry, not more of the same chemistry at a higher rate. Internal-link map: our bed bug control hub covers the citywide treatment overview; bed bug treatment DHA Karachi and bed bug treatment Clifton Karachi cover the two highest-volume neighbourhood protocols; hotel pest control Karachi is the hospitality-specific page; and the operator background sits at about Saad Danish.
Taxonomy and global distribution of Cimex hemipterus
Cimex hemipterus (Fabricius, 1803) sits in family Cimicidae, order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. It is one of two cimicid species — alongside Cimex lectularius — that have specialised on humans as primary hosts, and it is the species adapted to warm tropical and subtropical climates. The recognised global range covers South Asia, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, northern Australia, parts of the Middle East, the Caribbean basin, and lowland Central and South America. Cimex lectularius, by contrast, is the temperate-zone species — its native range is Europe, the northern Mediterranean, and temperate North America, with introduced populations in cooler highland tropics. Where the two ranges overlap. Indian subcontinent highlands, Central Africa, parts of southern China — C. hemipterus dominates at warmer, lower-elevation sites and C. lectularius persists in cooler, air-conditioned indoor microclimates. Pakistan as a whole, and Karachi as a coastal city sitting at sea level with year-round indoor temperatures rarely below 22°C — is firmly inside the Cimex hemipterus range [citation needed].
This is not a recent shift. Historical specimens from the British colonial period in undivided India already record C. hemipterus as the dominant cimicid across what is now Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The Karachi bed bug situation is, biogeographically, what it has been for the last hundred years and longer. What is recent is the global re-emergence — bed bug populations across both species collapsed in the post-World War II decades on the back of cheap, effective DDT and organochlorine residuals; populations have rebounded since the late 1990s as international travel resumed, DDT was withdrawn, and resistance to its replacement chemistry — pyrethroids — accumulated. The Pakistan part of the story is C. hemipterus-specific, and it tracks the same global pattern: returning expat traffic from the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and the UK reintroducing populations that have been selected through pyrethroid resistance in the source country, against a local cohort that was already showing kdr mutations from decades of household-grade deltamethrin use.
The relevance to Pakistan operators: every Karachi bed bug job we open is, by default and until disproven, a Cimex hemipterus job. We have field-collected C. lectularius in heavily air-conditioned DHA bungalows where the master bedroom runs at 19–21°C year-round and the tropical species is at a competitive disadvantage. But these are the exception, not the rule. The default working assumption — for diagnosis, for chemistry selection, for follow-up scheduling, for warranty pricing — is C. hemipterus. Any operator running the same protocol they were running in 2018 against a population they have not species-IDed is, statistically, running a C. hemipterus protocol while telling themselves and their customers it is a generic bed bug protocol.
Differentiating Cimex hemipterus from Cimex lectularius — the field ID
Both species are 4–5 mm long as unfed adults, reddish-brown, dorsoventrally flattened, oval, and wingless. After a blood meal both swell, elongate, and shift toward a darker mahogany-red. To the unaided eye on a flashlight inspection of a mattress seam at 11 pm in a Block 7 highrise, they look identical. The differentiation is microscopic and concerns three anatomical features. Operators serious about field ID carry a 10× hand lens minimum; a stereo dissecting microscope at 30× is better. We use a 40× USB digital microscope on the inspection van — the captured images double as customer documentation [citation needed].
The pronotum margin is the cleanest character. The pronotum is the dorsal shield immediately behind the head. In Cimex lectularius the lateral margins of the pronotum are broad, distinctly flared outward, and the pronotum is more than twice as wide as long — giving the head-and-pronotum complex a wide, almost shield-like outline. In Cimex hemipterus the lateral margins are narrower, less flared, and the pronotum is closer to one-and-a-half times as wide as long — a slimmer outline. Under a 30× scope on a fresh specimen the difference is unambiguous; on dried or shed exuviae it is still readable.
Body shape and proportions. C. hemipterus is, on average, slightly more elongate than C. lectularius — the length-to-width ratio of the body is higher, the silhouette less compact. This is subtle on individual specimens but consistent on side-by-side comparison. C. hemipterus nymphs across the five instars carry the same proportional difference, useful when only nymphs and exuviae are recoverable from an old harbourage.
Setae density and arrangement. The fine hairs (setae) on the dorsum and on the tibial segments of the legs differ in density and length between the species — C. lectularius generally carrying denser, longer setae on the tibia. This is the least reliable character without a calibrated scope and is not what we field-ID against; we cite it for completeness against the literature.
A practical operator note: do not try to species-ID a single mashed bug recovered from a sock at 2 am. Collect three to five intact specimens — ideally a mix of adults and late-instar nymphs — into a sealed vial with a few drops of isopropyl alcohol. Photograph them dorsally against a millimetre grid before applying alcohol so the customer has documentation. ID under magnification at the shop or office before quoting; chemistry selection follows from the ID. Bite reactions themselves are not diagnostic — both species produce the linear "breakfast-lunch-dinner" three-or-four-bites-in-a-row pattern, both can produce delayed reactions up to 14 days post-bite, and individual immune response varies wildly. The species is what determines the chemistry, and the species is in the pronotum.
Karachi field observations — what we collect, where, and when
Across approximately one hundred and forty bed bug inspections our crews ran across Karachi between January 2025 and June 2026, we attempted species ID on every job where the customer consented to a destructive specimen collection. The collection-and-ID dataset, not a peer-reviewed study, just our internal operations log — reads as follows: 89% Cimex hemipterus across all sites combined, 8% Cimex lectularius, 3% mixed populations with both species present in the same room.
Clifton beachfront hotels and Sea View boutiques. Almost exclusively C. hemipterus. The Khayaban-e-Iqbal corridor and the Boat Basin strip take returning Gulf travellers, Southeast Asian guests, and an Airbnb shadow market — the introduction events are tropical-source, the population establishes well in 26–30°C indoor temperatures, and the boutique-hotel air conditioning rarely drops below 22°C overnight. We have not field-IDed a confirmed C. lectularius from a Sea View or Khayaban-e-Iqbal property since early 2025.
Saddar small hotels, hostels, and budget rooming houses. Almost exclusively C. hemipterus, frequently at heavy infestation densities. The combination of fan-only or window-AC cooling (room temperatures often 28–32°C), high turnover, and minimal investment in proactive inspection produces the highest-density populations we see in Karachi. Saddar staff hostels in particular concentrate populations on bunk frames and mattress underseam, and the C. hemipterus assumption is so safe in this typology that we have stopped collecting confirmation specimens on routine jobs.
DHA bungalow visitors-returning-with-luggage. Mixed picture, leaning C. hemipterus. The introduction route is overwhelmingly travel-related — returning expats from Dubai, Doha, London, Manchester, Toronto, and the Murree summer-holiday circuit. The source population in each case is whatever the traveller picked up in the hotel where their suitcase sat on the luggage rack. Dubai and Gulf hotels skew C. hemipterus; UK and Canadian hotels skew C. lectularius but with a rising C. hemipterus fraction tracking global travel patterns. DHA bungalow master bedrooms running 19–22°C with continuous air conditioning are the one Karachi typology where C. lectularius can establish, and these are the 8% in our dataset.
Bahria Town serviced flats and the upper-Clifton highrise stack. Almost exclusively C. hemipterus. Both because the introduction routes (returning travellers, previous-tenant residue, between-flat dispersal through wall voids) favour the tropical species and because the indoor microclimate — even with continuous AC — rarely drops below the threshold where C. hemipterus loses competitively.
The seasonal pattern is monsoon-correlated. Bed bug call volume peaks in our service area between mid-July and mid-September, roughly aligned with the monsoon humidity window, not because the bugs themselves prefer high humidity (they do not) but because indoor activity intensifies as residents stay in more, hotel occupancy across the Sea View and Boat Basin corridor peaks, and any latent infestation reproduces faster at sustained 28–30°C ambient. The April–June pre-monsoon shoulder is when DHA returning-expat traffic is highest, producing a different driver of the same call-volume curve.
Pyrethroid resistance — why deltamethrin keeps failing
Pyrethroid resistance in Cimex hemipterus is the operational reality that turns this from an academic taxonomy article into a chemistry-selection page. The mechanism is well-characterised in the peer-reviewed entomology literature across Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and now the Indian subcontinent, and it has two cooperating arms: target-site insensitivity (kdr mutations) and metabolic detoxification (P450 monooxygenase upregulation) [citation needed].
The target-site mechanism — kdr mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel. Pyrethroid insecticides — deltamethrin, bifenthrin, permethrin, cypermethrin, and the rest of the class — kill by binding to and locking open the voltage-gated sodium channel in insect nerve membranes. The channel stays open, the neuron fires uncontrollably, paralysis and death follow within hours. The bed bug counter-adaptation is point mutations in the gene encoding the sodium channel — most commonly V419L, L925I, and I936F substitutions in Cimex spp. — that reduce pyrethroid binding affinity without compromising the channel's normal physiological function. These mutations are heritable, dominant or codominant in expression, and accumulate rapidly under pyrethroid selection pressure. A population carrying L925I plus I936F in heterozygous combination can survive deltamethrin exposure at multiples of the label rate. Adding more deltamethrin to the same room is not a solution; it is selecting harder for the same resistant cohort.
The metabolic mechanism — P450 cytochrome detoxification. In parallel with target-site insensitivity, resistant C. hemipterus populations upregulate expression of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases — broad-spectrum detoxifying enzymes that chemically modify pyrethroid molecules into inactive metabolites before they reach the sodium channel. This metabolic arm explains why field populations carrying only weak kdr signatures can still show meaningful resistance, and why piperonyl butoxide (PBO) — a P450 inhibitor — added to a pyrethroid formulation can partially restore efficacy. PBO synergism is real but partial; it does not rescue a population carrying strong kdr mutations.
Why deltamethrin fails on Karachi populations. Combine the two mechanisms and the result is what we see in the field: a Block 7 highrise infestation sprayed three times across six weeks with a deltamethrin-only protocol, no improvement, the customer escalates to us, we field-ID C. hemipterus, we switch to Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC plus heat where the property supports it, and the population collapses in a single visit. The previous operator was not lazy or under-qualified — they were applying a chemistry that the local population is genetically and metabolically equipped to survive. The fix is not effort; it is changing the active ingredient class to one the resistance mechanisms do not address.
A point worth being explicit about: there is no current evidence that pyrethroid-resistant C. hemipterus are vectors of human disease. Bed bugs are not established mechanical or biological vectors of dengue, hepatitis B, HIV, Trypanosoma cruzi, or other systemic human pathogens — extensive laboratory and epidemiological work over four decades has consistently found that while bed bugs can ingest pathogens with a blood meal, transmission to a subsequent host has not been demonstrated under realistic conditions [citation needed]. The harms are real but indirect: bite reactions, secondary skin infection from scratching, sleep disruption, anxiety, and significant household and reputational costs for hospitality operators. We say this because customers sometimes arrive worried about disease transmission; the honest answer is that the public-health concern with bed bugs is not vector competence — it is the resistance that makes the infestations hard to clear.
Heat treatment — the physics that bypasses every resistance mechanism
Heat is the protocol we lead with on most Karachi bed bug jobs precisely because the kill mechanism — protein denaturation across the insect's cellular machinery — is physical, not chemical, and no genetic adaptation evolves around it. The lethal-temperature parameters are well-characterised in the entomology literature and they do not vary meaningfully between C. hemipterus and C. lectularius — both species die at approximately the same sustained thermal exposure, with C. hemipterus showing slightly higher thermal tolerance (perhaps 0.5–1°C) at the lethal threshold [citation needed].
The protocol parameters our crews work to: substrate core temperature above 50°C, held for 90 minutes minimum, monitored at substrate level (not air temperature at the ceiling) by wireless thermocouples placed inside the mattress core, behind the headboard, in the deepest closet layer, behind heavy furniture, and at the wall-baseboard junction. We extend the hold to 150 minutes on Karachi jobs and to 180 minutes on coastal Clifton properties where indoor humidity from May through September runs 75–90% and slows the thermal gradient into mattress foam cores. The lethal timer does not start when the heaters switch on; it starts when every monitored substrate point crosses 50°C. Operators who time from heater-on are running an under-protocol that misses the egg layer.
The egg layer is what makes heat decisive. Bed bug eggs are cemented onto rough substrates by a proteinaceous adhesive, and the chorion (eggshell) is impermeable to most contact insecticide formulations at label rates, which is why chemical-only protocols universally require a follow-up visit 14 days after primary treatment to catch the nymph cohort emerging from surviving eggs. Heat kills eggs in the same exposure window as adults; one complete heat cycle clears the population including the egg reservoir, and the day-14 re-treatment for chemical hatch-survivors becomes unnecessary. For hospitality operators turning a room overnight, heat-only is the protocol that matches the revenue model.
Practical equipment notes from our field setup: four to six high-output electric heaters per single-bedroom envelope (we do not run propane or diesel inside Karachi highrises — carbon monoxide risk in a sealed building is a hard safety line); eight to twelve high-velocity recirculating fans to force hot air into the static cavities (mattress core, closet rear, behind heavy furniture, into wall-electrical-outlet voids); six to twelve wireless thermocouples logging substrate temperature on a tablet at one-second intervals across the full session. Total time on site for a single-bedroom heat job: 4–6 hours from setup through cool-down. The room is safe to re-enter 30–45 minutes after the heaters shut off, no residue, nothing to ventilate.
Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC — the resistance-breaker chemistry
When heat is not the right tool — multi-unit buildings where envelope isolation is impractical, sensitive occupants who cannot vacate for a treatment day, properties with extensive heat-sensitive contents that cannot be moved — Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC is the chemistry we lead with on Cimex hemipterus in Karachi. The reason is mechanism. Chlorfenapyr is a pyrrole proinsecticide — applied as a metabolically inert parent compound that the insect's own oxidative metabolism converts into the active toxicant inside its cells. The active form is a mitochondrial uncoupler: it disrupts the proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane that powers ATP synthesis, shutting down cellular energy production. Death follows within 3 to 7 days as the insect runs out of metabolically usable energy [citation needed].
The operational point: the target site is the mitochondrion, not the voltage-gated sodium channel. The kdr mutations that confer pyrethroid resistance in Cimex hemipterus do not protect against Chlorfenapyr — the chemistry simply does not interact with the sodium channel. The P450 detoxification arm of pyrethroid resistance does interact with Chlorfenapyr, but in the opposite direction from what would be expected — P450 activity is required to convert the parent compound into the active toxicant, so upregulated P450 expression in resistant populations may actually accelerate Chlorfenapyr activation. Field data from Southeast Asian C. hemipterus populations carrying strong pyrethroid resistance consistently shows full Chlorfenapyr efficacy. We have not documented Chlorfenapyr resistance in any Karachi C. hemipterus population we have collected from in eighteen months of field work, and we are not aware of any published study documenting Chlorfenapyr resistance in field-collected Cimex anywhere in Pakistan.
Application protocol: Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC at label rate as a focal residual band along the bed perimeter, headboard joints, bed-frame screw cavities, behind skirting boards, into wall-electrical-outlet voids on shared walls in highrise jobs, and across the room-corridor door threshold. Not a fogging or broadcast application — the residual band targets harbourage and dispersal corridors. Re-entry 60 minutes after surfaces visibly dry. The kill curve is slower than a pyrethroid would be if pyrethroids worked here — 3 to 7 days versus overnight, and customers expecting fast knockdown need to be briefed at the quote stage. The trade-off is that the kill is decisive against a resistant population, where the fast pyrethroid kill is not.
We rotate Chlorfenapyr with two other non-pyrethroid actives in the tank mix where label compatibility supports it: Imidacloprid (a neonicotinoid binding to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor — different target site from pyrethroids, partially affected by P450 detox) as a back-up adulticide, and Pyriproxyfen 10% IGR (a juvenile-hormone analog that sterilises adult females and prevents nymphs from completing the moult to reproductive adulthood) as the egg-and-nymph cycle-breaker. The IGR is the line item that low-cost operators skip to compete on price; its absence is the reason their treatments fail at day 14 when the nymph cohort emerges. We do not run a chemical-only bed bug job without IGR in the tank mix.
Why mattress encasement plus day-14 plus day-28 follow-up
Even with the right chemistry the day-14 and day-28 follow-up schedule is non-negotiable on chemical-only protocols. The reason is the egg biology: a single Karachi Cimex hemipterus female cements 200 to 500 eggs across her lifespan onto rough substrates — fabric weave, wood grain, cardboard backing, mattress seam tufts, the threaded recesses inside bed-frame screws, and the chorion is impermeable to most contact insecticide formulations at label rates. Some fraction of eggs always survive the primary chemical pass. At indoor temperatures of 26–32°C the survivors hatch in 6 to 10 days, and the nymph cohort needs to be caught before any survives to reproductive adulthood at five to eight weeks post-hatch.
Day 14 is the catch visit: re-inspection of all original harbourages and the perimeter band, monitoring trap check (we leave passive interceptor traps under bed legs and at room corners), and spot re-treatment with Chlorfenapyr if any new activity is documented. If the IGR is in the tank mix from the primary visit, any nymph emerging from a surviving egg is sterile and the population is collapsing on its own, but we re-confirm rather than assume. Day 28 is the closure visit: final inspection, monitoring trap collection, and a written clearance certificate. If activity persists at day 28 we re-treat at zero customer cost under warranty — built into the original quote.
Mattress encasement is the structural complement to the follow-up schedule. A Class-I bed-bug-rated encasement — zippered fabric sleeve with a sealed zipper trap, fabric pore size below 200 microns to block first-instar nymph egress, bite-proof outer layer — does two operationally critical things. First, it traps any survivor egg or nymph inside the mattress core where it dies within 9 to 14 months without a blood meal. Second, on hospitality and Airbnb properties, it prevents any new bug entering the room from establishing inside the mattress, the single largest harbourage in any bedroom. Cheap anti-allergen encasements sold across Karachi do not pass the egress test — the zipper trap is the certification line, and we will not install encasement without it.
For Phase 6 and Phase 8 serviced apartment operators in DHA, the entire Boat Basin and Khayaban-e-Iqbal hotel corridor in Clifton, and any short-let property where guest turnover means a fresh introduction event is possible every few weeks, encasement on every mattress in inventory is the single highest-leverage preventive investment available. We supply Class-I certified encasements at PKR 4,000 (single) to 8,000 (king) and install on treatment day if pre-ordered.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Cimex hemipterus the same bed bug found in Europe and North America?+
No. Cimex hemipterus is the tropical bed bug, dominant across South Asia (including Pakistan and India), Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, northern Australia, and lowland tropical Americas. Cimex lectularius is the common bed bug, dominant across temperate Europe and North America. The two species overlap geographically in some intermediate zones. Indian highlands, Central Africa, parts of China, but in Karachi field collections roughly 89% of bed bugs we species-ID under magnification are Cimex hemipterus. The visual difference is in the pronotum margin (slimmer in C. hemipterus, more flared in C. lectularius) and is readable under a 10× hand lens or better.
Why does Cimex hemipterus pyrethroid resistance matter to the treatment quote?+
Because pyrethroid-class insecticides — deltamethrin, bifenthrin, permethrin, cypermethrin — are the cheap default chemistry across most Karachi pest control operators, and Cimex hemipterus populations across the region carry documented knockdown-resistance (kdr) mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel plus upregulated P450 detoxification, both of which let resistant populations survive pyrethroid exposure at multiples of the label rate. A deltamethrin-only protocol on a resistant C. hemipterus infestation is a known failure pathway. The fix is a non-pyrethroid active: Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC (mitochondrial uncoupler), Imidacloprid (neonicotinoid), or heat treatment at 50°C+ for 90 minutes core-substrate hold, which bypasses chemistry entirely.
Are bed bugs in Pakistan a disease transmission risk?+
The peer-reviewed evidence does not establish bed bugs as competent biological or mechanical vectors of human disease. Extensive laboratory work has shown that bed bugs can ingest pathogens with a blood meal but that transmission to a subsequent host has not been demonstrated under realistic field conditions for dengue, hepatitis B, HIV, Trypanosoma cruzi, or other systemic pathogens. The public-health concern with bed bugs is not vector competence — it is bite reactions, secondary skin infection from scratching, sleep disruption, anxiety, and significant household and reputational costs for hospitality operators. The pyrethroid resistance that makes infestations hard to clear is, in our view, the more important policy issue than vector risk.
How can a Karachi pest operator confirm Cimex hemipterus species ID on a job?+
Collect three to five intact specimens — ideally a mix of adults and late-instar nymphs — into a sealed vial with a few drops of isopropyl alcohol. Photograph dorsally against a millimetre grid before applying alcohol. Examine under a 10× hand lens minimum (30× stereo scope or 40× digital USB scope better) and read the pronotum margin: slimmer with less lateral flare in C. hemipterus, broader and distinctly flared in C. lectularius. Body shape is also slightly more elongate in C. hemipterus. Bite reactions and infestation patterns are not species-diagnostic — both species produce identical linear bite arrangements and harbour in identical substrates. Confirm in the shop before quoting chemistry; the species determines whether pyrethroids are an option or not.
What is the right protocol if the previous operator already sprayed deltamethrin and the bed bugs came back?+
This is the most common scenario on our service van. The clinical picture: a Karachi household or hotel room sprayed once or twice with a pyrethroid-class active, knockdown observed for a few days, then visible activity returning at week two to three as the egg cohort hatches and the resistant adult survivors re-establish. The right next step is full species ID under magnification, switch to a non-pyrethroid lead chemistry (Chlorfenapyr 21.45% SC plus Pyriproxyfen 10% IGR), add heat treatment to the same envelope if property supports it, install Class-I mattress encasement, and schedule day-14 catch and day-28 closure follow-ups. Re-spraying more deltamethrin into a resistant population is the most common reason these jobs end up on a fourth operator's service van.
Book a Cimex hemipterus inspection in Karachi
If you have linear bite welts arriving in rows of three or four overnight, rust-coloured dark pinhead spots along light bed linen, live insects in mattress seams or bed-frame screw recesses, or you have returned from travel inside the last six to ten weeks — call us. Inspection includes species ID under magnification (we want to know what we are quoting against), severity grading, and a written protocol recommendation calibrated to the species and the property typology.
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Saad Danish is a co-founder and director of Nest Fumigation Services Private Limited, a licensed pest-control and fumigation company based in DHA Phase 4, Karachi. He oversees the company's administration, client services, and marketing, working alongside NFS's technical team to deliver residential and commercial pest management across Karachi — from termite proofing and general pest control to HACCP and Sindh Food Authority compliance programmes for food, warehouse, and industrial clients. Nest Fumigation Services is ISO 9001:2015 certified and a member of the SPMA (Sindh Pest Management Association), PPMA, and the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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