Death of MQM MPA (IV)

DOHA: I used to live in Karachi and how I long for the city as I remember it. Now it seems that blood flows like water in Pakistan and this is very unfortunate. In my time even an attack by someone wielding a knife would make it to the newspaper. There is this neighbourhood in the city, Parsi Colony, which used to have boundary walls only three to four feet high. But the last time I visited Karachi I saw that the walls were now over ten feet high and many of the residents had immigrated overseas. May Allah return to us those calm and peaceful days.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4^th, 2010.