Malbari Hotel- An Old Man's Day Dreams.... Sad yet True!!!

  We all four old friends were sitting at the malbari hotel talking meaninglessly and passing the time aimlessly.It was a very gloomy evening because at least 20 people had died in what the media people call  "Target killing".Kharadar where our malbari hotel gets shut down every second day.
Suddenly Yaqoob Kiria asked "Brothers!who are these people died in target killing.Are they members of particular sect,group or a political party? "I replied " They have nothing to do with any sect or politics.Our police and other law enforcing agencies are just about useless.They have not been able to catch one murderer out of hundreds of people killed in recent weeks.
        Do you see our streets are deserted after the sunset like curfew was imposed on our streets.Master Siddiq said that we must discuss who is killed not who killed him.To catch the killers is the job of our law enforcing agencies,but about half of those killed are never identified.There is a law of post martum and identification procedures.But mostly the dead bodies are handed over to social workers like Abdul Sattar Edhi for burial.These bodies are burried in nameless graves without any name or number.only prominent social workers like Abdul Sattar Edhi keep records by alloting a number to each dead body.
        Isn't it tragic,a person gets out to buy bread or vegetables but he never returns.A laborer spending his nights on foot paths is dead by a bullet coming from no where and sleeps permanently on that spot.The blame game is on and everybody blames to the other groups for this killing.No one thinks about the laborer who died has come from his village thousands of kilometers away from Karachi to earn his bread.
        Ghaffar Kapadia said that this is true,the persons so mercilessly killed by those hidden killers are footpath dwellers or persons sitting like us at some small hotels.Only Allah is protecting us.I say " should we change our meeting place to somewhere else? "
         Master Siddiq said we get to our homes before the night is set we are safe InshAllah.Once we sit at night at this place or any other place a bullet may come for any of us.That is for sure.Government announces awards for the dead men's relatives (if any) but it is never paid.These announcements are to get clapping of the people present where the announcement is made.
        I have visited Edhi foundation's graveyard at Maach Goth and have personally seen grave markings with identification numbers only.Edhi foundation maintains a register of information about these bodies with photographs for any body wishing to see them.Thus if any claimant comes he show  the photograph of the dead body and identification marks found on the body to the claimant.But this happens with very small percentage of unidentified bodies buried by Edhi foundation.
      We can not imagine when a person dies so suddenly, what happens to surviving relatives.Besides a widow,there are usually 3 or 4 small children who are left without anything to eat or to pay school fees.Any of 1001 things left unattended.Why don't our philanthropist establish a trust or foundation to help such surviving families of persons suddenly killed by the bullet,so that they can adjust to their lives again.But unfortunately,most of our wealthy men are interested in clapping and photographs,not in actual welfare work.