Behind the City of Lights

As everyone knows that Karachi is a city of light but these days lights have more than one source. Initially the city sparkled by the KESC but these days bullet sparks are also helping the cause. But, this is what everyone must be aware of but, what people are not aware of can be easily understood by this reading.

I don’t read newspaper because of the depressing news into it, but yes if something informative than I must go through. And in my case ‘informative’ means anything which can help me out.  So, I was just reading news that was shared by one of my colleague which was related to statistics of express crime in Karachi on monthly basis. And it’s around 130 registered crimes and around 500 unregistered crimes because no one goes for FIR of such crimes and in many cases Police don’t even lodge an FIR.

So, here few questions rise:

How they target us?
Why Police don’t lodge an FIR?

If anyone of us thinks that they are not organized then it must be our thoughts, because they are quite organized even far away from our thoughts. They are tracking our phone calls, our daily activity using foursquare, our lifestyle using Facebook, and our job using linked-in.

So, how to prevent from such things, try to be a hard target for them by avoid sharing your personal stuff over the net. Don’t talk about transaction details over the cell phone, specifically if it’s registered on your name.  Block all those unnecessary people who are following you at foursquare or twitter. And, in case of linked in you can’t help it. Even they are getting the accounts information from the banking system that how much amount do you have in your account. Recently, a bank manager kidnapped and it was probably to fetch information about his clients. So, this thing shows how they can fetch information easily of those who have quite healthy bank statements.

Few days back two snatchers shot on my car because I tried to escape and saved to become victimized. But, I was amazed to see the precision in the shot they have made as by the grace of Almighty Allah I was saved from only 4 inches while my car was moving fast and in zig-zag order, else it could blow my head.

But, that depression was less than the depression I faced while I went for lodging an FIR against it. It happened near Tipu Sultan road while I was heading towards Dunkin Donuts from Balooch Colony. So the nearest station I got was in M.A.C.H.S, the officer said it’s not under their jurisdiction, left for the station in PECHS Bl-6, I went there but the officer there was really funny. First question he asked was; where were you coming from? I replied Airport then he said the FIR should be lodged at Airport not here. I said but the incident held at Tipu Sultan Rd. His next question; was the car moving? I replied yes. Then jurisdiction cannot be finalized you can’t lodge an FIR, just drop me an application and we will look into it.

So, here I realized he is not at all willing to lodge an FIR, but there was a genuine reason behind it. As no one can risk the life of his family for just few thousands of salary; because these groups must have threatened them not for their lives but for the lives of their family and that could be a reason for not to take any kind of action against these people. 

In my opinion if we know that police can't save us then the best option is to find own way to secure ourselves and second best option is to escape from this city or country to get a better peacefull life where atleast being a third degree citizen you will have rights.Sad reminder of the ground reality in Pakistan today. Anybody can just kill you like a dog and get away with it, specially when he belongs from political elite family.