Ranked shortlist · 10 of 17 pharmacies and drug stores
Best pharmacies and drug stores in Karachi
The 10 most notable pharmacies and drug stores in Karachi, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Kausar Medico
Capitol Building, Muhammad Ali Jinnah Rd, opp. Khalikdina Hall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.545, percentile 100 of 17
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2
The Pharmacy Services
Shop#2 Indigo Tower, Clifton
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.366, percentile 93.75 of 17
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3
BK Homeopathic Clinic and Pharmacy
BK Homeopathic Clinic, Shop #21, Dilawar figar road, 5 Nazimabad No. 5, opp. Matric Board office
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.211, percentile 87.5 of 17
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4
Time Medico
12 National Stadium Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.186, percentile 81.25 of 17
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5
I Health Pharmacy
55c, A-Market
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.169, percentile 75 of 17
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6
Health Icon Medical and Diagnostic Centre
ST-21/A Main University Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.168, percentile 68.75 of 17
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7
Mehar Impex Homeopathic Store and Free Consultation Clinic
Mehar Impex Homeopathic Store and Clinic, Aram Bagh Rd, opposite Hamdard Matab, near Civil Hospital
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.009, percentile 62.5 of 17
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8
K & H Pharmacy
Street 6 A3
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.970, percentile 56.25 of 17
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9
Sajjad Piles Clinic
Nagan Chowrangi Flyover
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.798, percentile 50 of 17
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10
99 Pharmacy and General Store
Shop No.1, Plot No.37, Sheet No.5, Abbasi Market, Hashim Raza Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.798, percentile 43.75 of 17
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).