In Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood (a densely populated district of nearly 950,000 people in Pakistan's largest city), boxing coach Younus Qambrani has spent decades training young athletes — including girls — at his Pak Shaheen Boxing Club, challenging the area's internationally projected image as a hub of crime and violence. Lyari gained global notoriety through Bollywood's blockbuster Dhurandhar franchise, which depicts the neighbourhood as a lawless gangland, but locals say this portrayal ignores its rich cultural heritage as a centre for football, hip-hop, and boxing — a sport so beloved there that Muhammad Ali visited in 1989. Qambrani's club has produced notable champions, including Aliya Soomro, Pakistan's first woman to win a world boxing title, underscoring how the neighbourhood has moved well beyond the gang warfare of the mid-2000s to early 2010s, which was largely dismantled following a government crackdown in 2012.