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 quality foods atleast once. Beware of Imitators. This is Gulzar-e-Hijri Branch of McDonald’s French Fries. Delicious Finger Chips.

Babar Bhatti

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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 leave them on streets to make good money for them. But what about the unfortunate beggars themselves?

We see them every day at traffic signals and footpaths from our car windows and most of the times just throw a coin at them and try to ignore them as they don’t exist. This level of indifference in our society is sad. May be we were put on this side of the car window for a reason, to be able to help those on the other side.

Our courts are too busy solving the legal and constitutional issues, the law enforcement agencies are occupied keeping an eye on politicians or arresting and deporting them, and all of us are too busy debating all this … but, for whom? Maybe it is those who are debating the ‘big picture’ who are really missing the big picture that can only be seen in the small pictures.