Suffering inside hospitals, dont capture the haunting scene in morgues. They cant capture the grief because they cant have memorial services. One hopes her words may capture what it is to watch a loved one day of the virus. She wrote an essay for the washington post, agreed to read it out loud nfor you, our viewers. Think of someone you love unconditionally, the person makes your heart full of joy. Is it a child or parent, partner, close friend. Say their name, take a slow deep breath and close your eyes. Picture that person in a hospital bed, machines are beeping, the machine is unconscious on a ventilator, the machine forcing air in their chest, making it rise and fall. The nurse tells you your person spends 21 hours a day on their stomach, but theyre up right today because today is their day. Sometimes they sound an alert because the person is fighting the ventilator, trying to maintain some type of independence. Suddenly feels so morbid to think how we casually say so and so was a
and told me how karachi has become a hot bed for taliban recruiters. we know these people, at least six people arrested last week have been in custody now five days of questioning. i think one of the things you learn here in karachi is that the call ban have a strong presence here, not just the pakistani-taliban, but other jihadists groups. they have come together, respite from the frontline, come to escape the u.s. drone strikes. why can they come here? because they come from a part of the country where people with pashtuns, that s their ethnic background. there s a large pashtun community in the city here, sprawling suburbs, more than a million people in suburb, a handful of police to police those areas. the taliban can hide effectively there. now, a number of senior leaders have been arrested in those areas recently, but the taliban are using karachi as a place to raise money through bank robbery, through kidnap and ransom, that s what the police tell us, and they re usi