Photos show the beach dotted with the huts at the centre of yesterday's raid.
The huts, which can be rented out by tourists, were built on the beach as a result of Yorkshireman Bladen Wilmer Hawke, later the ninth Baron Hawke of Towton.
Camel rides on the beach are a popular attraction. Photo / Adnan Mehmood
Hawke had a beach house there, roughly 20km south of Karachi's city centre, in the 1930s which he used in the weekend. His friends then built other huts around him, and the beach eventually was named after him.
Hawke's Bay, Karachi, still has plenty going for it today. Endangered green sea turtles use it as a nesting ground. Photos show whales have stranded in the recent past.
Beach huts dot Hawke's Bay beach. Photo / Youtube
As with any beach that doesn't have a surf live saving patrol, its had its fair share of drownings - a Shia pilgrim in 1983, four boys in 2015 and a particularly dark day in September 2017 when 12 people from three different families died.
The area has changed a lot from Hawke's days.
Hawke's Bay Town was built around the beach, starting in the early 1980s.
The Karachi Development Authority built it as a residential scheme for low and medium income people.
Approximately 250,000 people were displaced by the establishment of Karachi's Lyari Expressway.
Some sectors of Hawke's Bay Town were assigned to those displaced residents, some sectors to media and government workers, and some were assigned in a public ballot.
