The people of Karachi are no strangers to the term ‘violence’. An already long list of complaints follows up with each passing day. From dealing with the upper hand of the city leadership to moving on with their lives, if there is one thing the Karachiites have learned over the years, it is the art of not giving up. -ever.
It is possible to say that they are more stable, more powerful and more street-lean than their countrymen. After all, the city is thriving despite being subjected to brutal violence in the past. It is fitting, therefore, that the city has removed some of the finest cricketers, who have remained motionless in the face of unrest, for Pakistan.
From Javed Miandad in the 1970s-80s to Rashid Latif and Moin Khan in the 1990s and Sarfaraz Ahmed and Asad Shafiq in the 2010s, the city was still relevant in cricket but nevertheless captured the attention Lahore received. or any other capital city.
Why? Because the people always felt that Karachi had more to offer. And while that may not always be true, the case of Fawad Alam is the gospel truth.