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Quetta-The Little London Of Pakistan

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I am not sure from where to start. I am having difficulty with coherency as all this blood, hate, apathy is weighing my heart down and down and I am afraid my words will not be enough to carry the ache of the population of Quetta who have been mourning for their dead for so long. Bomb blast site-Quetta mourners with their dead in front of Quetta press club There have been six bomb blasts in Quetta in single day who left around 102 people dead. Imagine six blasts in one day. Mourners didn't bury their dead and protested in front of press club in Quetta, with their dead bodies, asking for army control in province. Quetta's minister has been in Dubai with his family and he was on a transit flight to Frankfurt. Today. The chaos is all over Pakistan and our Political leaders are busy with their own (filthy) tricks of politics. And us, people around Pakistan are also apathetic to the situation in country to some extent. We just sit behind our screens and write some lines...

A Young Man Murdered In Cold-Blood

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KARACHI :  Shahzeb Khan Shahzeb Khan didn’t even get time to change the clothes he wore to his sister’s valima. He was in his dark grey dress shirt and trousers when four 9mm bullets pierced through his car – a gleaming blue Swift which was an early birthday gift from his parents, and entered his body, eventually killing this popular 20 year old. The car which had somersaulted after the shooting near Mubarak Masjid in Karachi ’s upmarket Defence area on Tuesday morning, now stands silent opposite the Darakhshan Police Station, a sad reminder of what the spoilt young sons of feudal landlords can do if they or their friends are challenged. Ironically, Shahzeb Khan, the only son of his parents, was shot dead because of a small argument. He and his sister had just returned to their home in the Country Club Apartments from the wedding when a servant living in the building teased his sister. Shahzeb raised his voice against the harassment. But this did not sink in well...