Fellow Raja reports live from Hassan Square that some “bhia log” (his exact word) have just arrived to get all shops closed down. He reports panic in locality though nothing untoward seen. According to him few bhai logh came and started telling shop keepers to close the shops and open them on Sunday (Monday).

There is much WEIGHT in the argument that If establishing the WRIT of the government and Militancy ( another IN-fashion word among elite) is what all noise in upper Pakistan is about then is Karachi not facing the same issue since writ of the gov. is absent here now for around 2 decades. Do we have any wise heads around on how to clean Karachi from Militancy. Is Operation Clean up the solution? What people think . . .

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Every now and then we hear horror stories about reckless driving. I got to know of one such case where a person who was driving at speed of 120 without any reason. He first hit two motorcycles subsequently, killing both the commuters and then while he was being chased by the police, he lost control completely, he hit another car and now that guy is hospital in serious condition including fractures and head injury, and if he pulls it through then he will be in hospital for 3 months minimum. I hope he recovers. No good reason for anyone who is in such practice, even for the high which is sometimes stupidly proclaimed by some people.

This reminds me that there was some event of Car Racing organized in Hamara Karachi festival this year about which I wanted to write way back but I somehow forgot. Sab choro I mean how can you allow racing on the roads in the first place, even with whatever safety arrangements you claim. This decision was utter foolishness. Can’t we bring in some stuff except the boating, eating and racing?! C’mmon, wake up! I guess we seriously need some brains working.

I am one of the guys strongly affected by pillion ride. The other day i was questinoning myself if the crime graph has lowered or not. Surprisingly that very day when i was going to my place from my work place and just for the record, Pillion ride ban was in place, I saw these two guys riding pillion robbing these other two guys who were also riding pillion on the road behind Mazar-e-Qaid.

I always wondered why people dont stop when they see someone being mugged!! That day I saw those guys being robbed and did nothing, i just stood there and watched the whole show, i was stunned by that shining piece of metal pushed against that guy.I think now the Government should unban pillion ride as it doesn’t affect increasing crime rate. What do you think?

People are becoming so frustrated by this that the other day i saw these two lads riding pillion, they were stopped by police. They tried to argue with the police. The aftermath… yes you are correct if you are thinking they were beaten up, i stood there and felt pity for the poor chaps, it was around 1:30 AM, near gulshan’s Ashfaq Memorial hospital. At that time they were calling their relatives.

Feel so sorry for this young man. They could have shoot him as he looked arguing once. Young man starts crying after incident and understandably so. God knows what might be his family condition. Might have to borrow some cash for a month. Imagine the anger and the frustation he will grow inside and the worst, even more lack of trust on our police and system as whole. While your tax being spent on VIPz security awaam are at the mercy of luck. Video itself is secondary here. (Related : Cowasjee)

You have to “appreciate” the ease with which they performed their “duty”. Found this video of an ATM branch caught on tape.

Apparently all those tales about a white corolla car roaming the streets of our posh Defense and Clifton areas were quite true.  What the fickle among us dismissed as rumors to scare the population has in fact been confessed by a “Ali Mohammad Hajiyano” who along with his friend Umair khan rented a white corolla and then robbed, raped and looted with impunity for a number of weeks in and around the defence and Clifton area.

There are about 32 FIRS registered against “Ali Mohammad Hajiyano” in various area of clifton and it is feared according to his explicit confessions that there are many more out there who have not reported their plight due to the brutality of his crimes.

The criminals were finally caught as they were found by a police mobile robbing a girl outside Nisar Shaheed Park in Defence. Many of the families which suffered at the hands of these monsters have called for exemplary punishment to teach other wanna be’s a lesson.

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January has been a month full of stress and fear for parents of school going children in Karachi. There have been a number of kidnapping cases of children going to or coming back from school in this month and the cities police has been ordered to keep an eye outside major schools.

The exact number of kidnapping cases of school going children last month were 3, all of a short term basis with the kidnappers typically targeting children 10-13 years of age and asking for ransoms from 70,000 to 500,000 rupees upon payment of which the child was returned to their parents.

Parents are thus been advised by school authorities to take different routes to and from school with their children as well as making sure a supervising adult “from the family” is there when the children are picked up. Most schools have already adopted an ID card system without the presence of which children are not released to whoever arrives to pick them up.

Hopefully the city government will take an active interest in ensuring that our young citizens are not robbed of their rights of freedom even before they realize what they mean.

Yesterday, driving from Hasan square towards the nation stadium my heart skipped a beat when suddenly in the centre of the road I spotted a cat lying still, it’s blood splattered on the cold tar of the road, lifeless. Apparently a driver didn’t had the audacity to pause for a few split seconds to spare the life of a poor cat. The cats lifeless body lying in the centre of the city and it’s tail pointing towards us citizens, a sign that we have become so insensitive that we have stopped respecting life, of fellow human beings, of animals and of all God’s creations.

A student, a child, an old man, of a father, mother sister, wife, daughter, who once back in the timeline who too were lying lifeless just like this cat, on a Similar road, and like the cats tail their gaze pointing towards to city asking only one question. “Was the rush really worth taking away a life ?” The city is silent, maybe of guilt or too insensitive to understand the question.