Karachi Voice

It has been quite a while since I last wrote something about Karachi on my Blog. Maybe because I have been struggling hard to get my life back into rhythm. There are a number of issues to deal with as of today when you live in a city like Karachi and when the economy and the country itself is trembling. Besides all the development and betterment Karachi has gone through lately, there are some issues that has to be addressed and taken quite seriously now. Couple of days back, almost three nights in a row I couldn't sleep because of some weddings going on in the next street. When the loud and extremely bad quality cheap Indian music took a break after almost 4 hours, come the fireworks and the gun fires! The driving force for me to write this was a post where the same issue is faced by Faisal K and I am totally with him on this one. The winter month of december is ending in its full and nippy glory here in Karachi and the never ending series of weddings just keeps going on and on...

... Ashamed! Truly I am! I've been hearing about videos on YouTube regarding frustrated / desperate couples making love right in the middle of the Mazar-e-Quaid, open air, public display of love and affection (PDA). I've been observing teenage guys watching videos of Pakistani young girls dancing like crazy on events in their schools and personal parties. I kept on wondering, what's happening to the people of Karachi! Have they forgotten their religion? Have they forgotten their identity, their own respect, their own pride! Chains of thoughts leads to blaming of almost everything around us, the TV channels, the movies, the media, the education, the parents, the children themselves, the traditions everything... Just as it began to build up and something could be said, I've been notified by a blogger on KMB (link probably doesn't work as of now), about an incident that took place in same place, under an apparently different topic . A young woman was drugged and raped...

The picture above is a sign of a good old source of light, the sweet candle, now only remembered in terms and times of a higher emotional state of mind. Yes, you guessed it right - a romantic dinner! But there is also one more occasion when the emotions are high and the candle is thought of quite desperately. And that's when you are resting on your bed, in a dark summer night, and suddenly all the sounds go quiet around you. You open your eyes - you see nothing, you try to listen - you hear nothing. The first thing that pops into one's mind is a candle. You get up and light a candle, lay back on your bed, and wonder - why! Why in the middle of the night! Why my block! Suddenly you feel like being a dinner for the mosquitoes, so you get up and start wandering around the house. You're still thinking... why did I pay the bill, why did I work all week long to pay the bill, why do I do it, Why do I have to go to the office again in the morning. What my life has been, why do I st...

There as been a previous post on Karachi Metblogs , about the digital boards located on Metropole. I noticed another digital board near the JPMC chawrangi One... Two... Three more... and Karachi would look like this... This is New York Time Square! The city that never sleeps - The life that never stops. Same is said for Karachi! The city that never sleeps! The life that never stops. Imagine this image to be of our own city center, Regal Market - Saddar! :) The digital outdoor advertising is now taking its first steps onto the roads of Karachi. I think, only if the new technology is put to use the smart way, it can go a long way into the future. This could be the future of Karachi in the next few years. If not these few boards in town might end up like the one Hassan Square (Picture N/A yet) I remember sometime back in 1993-1996 the huge TV displaying the adds and all sort of different stuff on the large screen in color! It was quite a pride for Karachi to have that in place. Unfortuna...

Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms. But that hasn't helped women forced to rely on packed buses, by far the city's most-used form of public transportation — until this week. Acting on complaints from women's groups, the city rolled out "ladies only" buses, complete with pink signs in the windshields to wave off the men. Read More... According to the report above, the Mexican's have taken action towards the most prevailing yet largely undisclosed fact of Women harassments throughout the world, by assigning separate mens' and women's buses. Karachi being a Muslim country, it is very sad that the same sort of mentality exists here, to whom the respect of...

These are the pictures form my camera, what it tell you need no words. This is an incident of which I do not know much details about. I took these pictures when I was on my way to the office in the morning, its on the road from "Kashif Center" towards "Cantt Station". I don't know what happened and how it happened, but what is left is no good! So my advice to you people is just the same, we have heard it a million times but hear it once again DRIVE SAFE PLEASE!