Illustration by Abro The tiresome and perpetually ill-informed debate regarding the supposed superiority of Lahore over Karachi manifests with regularity across social media. It is contested as if it were a zero-sum existentialist struggle. The discourse is often stripped of nuance and weaponised for partisan gain. The noted architect and researcher Arif Hasan once told me that cities really cannot be compared. He argued that every urban sprawl possesses its own unique geographical, hist...