Karachi Odyssey II

#12, Omar, I agree with you. This is not only terrible - it requires major retribution. Normally, I am against capital punishment, but ....
Salim

#9, Khamkhwa {#9 by khamkhwa. on August 16, 2005 10:11am PT Re: # 6
[If this two-bit poet is from Karachi, he must be from Golimar, Lalukhet, or Sher Shah.]

... those areas are still in karachi which is still in pakistan inspite of peer sahab and his followers...``}

Khammy,
They said the same thing about Noakhali, Jessore, and Cox`s Bazaar. Matter of fact, they said something like what you just said about Chandni Chowk, Hazrat Gang, Aish Baagh, and Arambaagh. :)

You guys will never learn.

this is terrible to say the least

miriam:

:)

there was a lot that fell to the floor in the revisions…your comments reminded me of this edited line after i flounder:

pomfret, crabbing, sea darhsan count not!

but you are right…sea is a metaphor for a lot of what ails us…we are in perpetual denial on several levels…part angst part dilemma…

lve

t

Re: # 6
[If this two-bit poet is from Karachi, he must be from Golimar, Lalukhet, or Sher Shah.]

... those areas are still in karachi which is still in pakistan inspite of peer sahab and his followers...

nadia

what irony I don’t see the natives to take surface
There are born, worn and decomposed in the soil

and another irony…It’s where middle class resides with sealed lips and desires …

we live, breathe, laugh, cry and die on this dharti but with extremely tenuous links…such tentativeness is filled with fraught…sometimes we wake up and debate it frivolously and inconclusively… as in khuda hafez vs allah hafiz debates…no dearth of ironies

thanks for your comments

lve

t

t,

my memories of karachi are a hodgepodge really. but trips to the sea are the fondest of that medley.

the waves
untiring in their conversation
with the shore
skip over those
who live by the sea
not by the sea

i liked this…whether the waves skip over us or us over them is the question i suppose.

best
miriam

If this two-bit poet is from Karachi, he must be from Golimar, Lalukhet, or Sher Shah.

Che, #3,
You know you are definitely right. Yes, the old Sohrab Goth incident in `86 when the Pathans killed many Biharis without mercy and Zia and his troops did nothing to save lives. In fact, I heard that no one was indicted or tried or punished for all those gruesome killings.

Yes, the ChuRayl and the corrupt ``Sharif`` deliberately ``destroyed`` Karachi to move capital, business, and jobs to LaWhore.

Good that Mushy is reversing some of this evil. Jiye Mahajir. :)

Re: # 3

I`d say the place started going down the shitter in the 80`s during Zia`s reign with the Afghan war, bringing in kalasnikovs, heroin and worst of all Afghans, as well as the subsequent rise of the MQM and ethnic riots. You`re right though the Churayl and that lard laden taqla mullah without the beard made sure Karachi turned into a hell hole while spending the entire budget on LaWhore. Things are getting better now with our own people in charge, I hope for the day when Karachi will again be the nightlife capital of Southasia like it once was in the 1970`s.

In the decade of the 1990s, during the ``democratic`` regimes of Benazir and Nawaz Sharif, the ``pseudo-liberal and progressive`` Pakis destroyed Karachi, the former radiant, shimmering, tolerant, and beautiful Queen of the Arabian Sea. :(

Lamenting over Karachi is like singing:
``Woh Dilli woh Dilli ki galliyaaN kahaN ...``

it`s `` Ok ``