Karachi Burning

Arjun-Not agreed with you....
These are not Jehadi`s but some people really near to you...
Jehadi`s may be doing worst but shouldn`t be blammed for every worst....

Thanks bat and flyhighkites

labyrinth1: You can`t just blame outsiders. Everyone in Karachi was an outsider once. It is an immigrants city. My parents immigrated there. We have to own up to our problems.

Jay: I agree the problem is all over Pakistan. I am a Karachiite and therfore wrote specifically about it. If not for the title of the poem it could be about anywhere in Pakistan.

arjun_m: Thank you for your simplistic, but nonetheless useful contribution

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Here is yet another poem. The problem is not in karachi, it is in the minds of pakistanis, every where. Read dawn, read about the killings in india, and the most elitist pak news papaer, with omar as the asst editor, calls the killers `freedom fighters``

The problem is in this world view, where ordinary people are extolled to go and kill kafirs. It is the ordinary pakistani who gives a few paise to the mullah in the mosque who is behind the karachi killings.

Write about the lasker meetings at madreke, write a poem about the minds of the millions who attend the madreke meet.

The roots of karachi killings is at nadreke.

Things are tough in Karachi but I think we (Karachites) are used to it , the only thing which really bothers us are the strikes !
thanks to Nawaz Sharif, Karachi got a image of a `state within a state` , it was Gauher Ayub who wanted to be the don of Karachi (back in his fathers days) , it was Jamat-e-Islami who bought guns in KU, it was our own MQM who brought t-t`s in Karachi(eye for a eye) , it was armed forces which treated Karachi like a coloney (not anymore but in early 90`s) , it was BiBi Bhutoo who always had been envy of Karachi, it has always been outsiders most of the times , its always been. It`s Afgans who brought heroine and guns into Karachi they brought crimes see Haji Camp, Sorab Goth just go there and watch.
Today my city is burning, we need to project a good image I am far from my city very far but I feel the pain I feel ashamed I feel Karachi :(
i love you, Karachi ...

Simple words for the simply painful questions the mind of an ordinary Pakistani asks. Karachi ko kya hogaya hai!?

Keep yearning and my advice to you is, play that song from Evita and subsitute the word ``Argentina`` with ``Karachi``.

Ciao

``How must it feel, O martyr
to be a few murders away
from meeting your glorious Maker?
For your sin, how much we pay? ``
Absolutely poignant...poetry conveys so much in a few words..