in a spaceship orbiting the sun
One rainy evening in Karachi, Farooq and I set off in a vintage 1948 Ford F1 red truck to rescue stranded folks on the flooded streets of the city.
July 17, 2020.
Story of the red truck:http://offroadpakistan.com/misc/the_ford_f1_story_from_california_to_karachi.html
Report in EXPRESS TRIBUNE:
There is so much one can learn about a city by seeing it through the eyes of another person – and this is what happened on Sunday when people gathered at the Arts Council on the third and last day of the Karachi conference to watch five short films and documentaries highlighting Karachi’s residents and heritage.
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A collaborative project Yaminay Chaudhri and I are working on in Karachi.
Faiza Ilyas in DAWN:
“The government has been urged several times to declare the entire Sandspit/Hawkesbay area (including the turtle nesting grounds) a nature reserve where the state needs to regulate human interference. It’s painful that now another plan is in the offing and that, too, not by any private organisation but a public sector department to destroy what little biodiversity is left in the backwater,†said deputy director general WWF-P Dr Ejaz Ahmad.
Once domestic sewage would start flowing from coastal housing projects into the backwater, small in-house factories would also appear and it would be difficult to stop the ecosystem from complete collapse, he pointed out.
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https://vimeo.com/70340273
A film about Pakistan
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