I BELIEVE I manifested this getaway to Islamabad.
For the past three months, life in Karachi has been so frustrating that I have been saying out loud that I want to get out of here. It is difficult to take the state of the roads, people’s driving or the complete absence of any road etiquette, besides my own increasing road rage, any longer. And then of course, there is the mess that DHA has turned into. One does not even need to get into the daily life struggles that we all face.
I did not realise that by saying ‘I need a break’, someone would actually grant me one. So here I am, a suitcase filled with everything warm that I own, as well as things loaned by friends and family.
This is not my first time in th
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