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Bookworm? Wriggle to Regal Chowk

By ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

By Amar Guriro Dr. Muhammad Ali Muhammadi, a physician by profession, runs his own clinic at Tariq Road and is very busy with his practice. Even though he has a very busy schedule, he has been a regular visitor at the Book Market every Sunday at Regal Chowk for the last 30 years, looking for [...]

Lust of influential man destroys woman’s life

By ⋅ October 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

By Amar Guriro This city sees many tragedies every day and one of them is the case of S, 24, a housewife, who paid the price of crossing paths with an influential man. They were a happy couple, S and her husband Z. They had met 10 years ago and had fallen in love. They [...]

Karachi still home to many pre-Partition traditions and foods

By ⋅ October 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Text and Photos By Amar Guriro With the migration of Muhammad Rizwan’s grandfather’s family, they brought along a certain culture and taste of food and even after the passage of 62 years, his family has managed to maintain the traditional taste of Delhi sweets. Before the partition of the sub-continent, Rizwan’s grandfather was running a [...]

Ruining lives for 9 paisas in knee-deep salt

By ⋅ October 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

By Amar Guriro Abdul Samad does not remember how long he has been working as a salt worker as time has frozen for him like the white shadows of the salt heaps spread around him have frozen in his eyes. Samad has spent most of his life working as salt worker on the salt fields [...]

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