KARACHI: Following moving scenes witnessed at his funeral a few days ago, the people of Karachi gathered again, this time on Edulgee Dinshaw Road, to remember slain qawwal Amjad Sabri and hold a candlelit vigil in his honour on Saturday night.

There were little children, grown-ups and aged people lighting little candles around a fountain that the wind would snuff out every other minute, yet they would not tire of lighting them again.

“I am here with my eight-year-old granddaughter Raaya Raza Jamil from Lahore. I want her to confront this disturbed world that we live in,” said Baela Raza Jamil, trustee and adviser of the Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi.

Komal Pervez, a landscape architect, said she was saddened that such disturbances had started again in Karachi where someone’s father, brother or husband was murdered. “Suddenly it hits you that it can happen to you as well. This is what makes you come out in defiance and to protest against what is going on,” she said.

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2016