Taken from the backseat of a rickshaw while traveling between interview sites. The rickshaw industry has traditionally absorbed Karachi’s rural-to-urban migrants. At first, most rickshaw drivers were Pashtuns who hailed from Pakistan’s northwest. But as Pashtun migration shifted towards the Gulf and second-generation Pashtuns took to other professions, Karachi’s newer crop of economic migrants — the Saraikis from southern Punjab — have begun to fill these roles.