Earlier this summer bloodshed came suddenly to Qasba Colony - a densely packed area in the west of Karachi. The violence has persisted and things are tense when we visit.
We are here to see two families who live just a few hundred metres apart. The family of one girl, Yumna, who is 13, lives at the bottom of the steep hill that dominates Qasba. The family of another, six-year-old Laiba, lives at the very top.
But while you can clearly see one home from the other, you can no longer walk directly between the two.
(...)
Yumna's family, like most of those living in the sprawling expanse at the bottom of the hill, is "Urdu-speaking"; a term given to those Muslims who chose to come over to Pakistan from India at partition more than 60 years ago.
Yumna's great-grandparents migrated from Calcutta. For decades, the Urdu-speaking community has been the majority in Karachi, and the most powerful politically.
Little Laiba's family though, like almost all of those who live on the slopes of the hill, are ethnic Pashtuns originally from north-west Pakistan. Full story...
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We are here to see two families who live just a few hundred metres apart. The family of one girl, Yumna, who is 13, lives at the bottom of the steep hill that dominates Qasba. The family of another, six-year-old Laiba, lives at the very top.
But while you can clearly see one home from the other, you can no longer walk directly between the two.
(...)
Yumna's family, like most of those living in the sprawling expanse at the bottom of the hill, is "Urdu-speaking"; a term given to those Muslims who chose to come over to Pakistan from India at partition more than 60 years ago.
Yumna's great-grandparents migrated from Calcutta. For decades, the Urdu-speaking community has been the majority in Karachi, and the most powerful politically.
Little Laiba's family though, like almost all of those who live on the slopes of the hill, are ethnic Pashtuns originally from north-west Pakistan. Full story...
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