Owais Mughal I first saw this photo by Raja Islam at Metroblogging Karachi and since then I am spellbound. The photo is self-explanatory but I do want to translate it for our English readership. For our Urdu readers I want to mention that punch line is written just above the McDonald’s sign. Translation: Try our […]
Darwaish Back in January 2007, I wrote about beggars on the streets of Lahore, Karachi and the growing indifference in our society towards these extremely poor and forgotten people. Hundreds of organized gangs are operating in almost every big city of Pakistan who amputate the organs of little kids, old and young people and then […]
Owais Mughal The photo is of a suzuki pick-up transporting freshly manufactured ‘lotay’ in Karachi. When I first saw this photo at Flickr.com, the photographer Fayyaz Ahmed had captioned it ‘Election Preparation 2007’. I thought that was too funny. Photo Credits: Fayyaz Ahmed
