[DAWN] Senior journalist and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
bureau chief of Geo News Faheem Siddiqui is busy in planning for the coverage of the religious events of Ashura in the city. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the activity every year reminds him of the painful events of 2009 Muharram he would never want to repeat in his life as a father, but has to go through as a newsman.
"Obviously, it causes pain. I lost my first child on this day. I lost my niece too," says Mr Siddiqui referring to the Ashura kaboom in which more than 45 people were killed on M.A. Jinnah Road on December 28, 2009. Mr Siddiqui’s six-year-old son, Bazil Ahmed Siddiqui, and 13-year-old niece, Anzalna Hanif, were among those killed in the attack.
"We remained issueless for five years after the martyrdom of our son," the 49-year-old tells Dawn in a gagged voice. Then, Allah, the Almighty, blessed us with three kids, all of them are boys," he says. "But, the pain for losing our firstborn still haunts us. If Bazil were alive, he would have been 19 today," adds the father, helplessly.
Mr Siddiqui is among dozens of families of the victims of the tragic incident that shook the nation in general. And they are all awaiting justice for the past 13 years, as the country’s security establishment fails to re-arrest the three Jundullah forces of Evil allegedly involved in the bombing, who had beat feet from the custody of the police days after their arrest. 
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