hey guys... i was in hyderabad when this Benazir thing happened... we had left for hyderabad on the 25th by train... we reached there in the afternoon of the 26th... our plan was that we'll go to khi on the 29th and on 30th we'll leave for lhr... actually it was my dad's cousin's (chachu) wedding... wedding was on 26th and valima on the 28th... the wedding went fine... but this thing happened on the 27th and obviously the valima had to be cancelled or postponed due to the situation in hyderabad... as soon as the news of her death came on tv, my dad's chacha switched of the decorative lights... this proved to be very good for us.. because within 15 minutes, people came out on our street and we could here them protesting and breaking windows... they also burnt a bank and a cultus one house away from ours.. i'm attaching pics... now we knew that we can not go to khi as planned.. so the first thing we did was to reschedule our reservation.. we thought that the 31st would be relatively better as the official 3-day 'sog' period would be over... we had to stay inside our house for 3 days... khair we set off for khi on the morning of 31st by road and reached the airport safely... from hyderabad to karachi, there were MANY burnt cars... our driver knew a route that bypasses khi and goes through maleer cantt straight to the airport... reached khi at 1pm.. our flight was at 7pm... stayed at the airport... and then came back to lhr safely
LINK TO THE AUDIO RECORDING:
http://www.uploadpak3.com/freeupload/download.php?file=6407384a7f9ca6f97ea6d03b37c85f6f
going to hyderabad
our house, decorated for the wedding
dulay kee gari
more pics in the next post