IF the ages of those who are being killed in Karachi on a daily basis are any indicator, it will be observed that more and more youths are being killed, leaving more and more old parents, relatives and friends to mourn their death.

The graveyard population is increasing.

In Europe, youths were killed in World Wars I and II, leaving the old to mourn their death and now the position is that they have a majority of old people. The same is being seen in Karachi which is being converted into a city of the dead.

How long will the living population be allowed to be converted into the dead?

ZAFARUL HAQ MEMON Karachi

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