Filthy rich: A Karachi sewer operation for a sick city
Garbage and not squatters is the real reason it floods
SAMAA |
Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan - Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
SAMAA |
Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
Two naughty little boys are having a conversation sitting on top of an empty king-sized sewerage pipeline behind a swarm of city officials surveying Manzoor Colony nullah.
âTera ghar to gira rahey hain,â one of them says. Theyâre demolishing your house.
âAbey, tujhe kaise pata?!â How the hell do you know?
âKyunke wo nishaan laga ke gae na!â he repliesâand then, as if to assuage his buddyâs feelings, hastily and a tad mournfully, adds: âMeri to poori galli ja rahi he.â Because they marked it. My entire alleyway is going…