Karachi (Pakistan) -- Fiction

When Alice Bhatti returns to her childhood home in the French Colony, she starts work at the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments, healing the sick. She falls in love with Teddy Butt, apprentice to the nefarious Gentlemen's Squad of the Karachi police. Their love is unexpected, but the conseque...

Comrade Sukhansaz, an old communist poet, is harassed on a bus full of college students minutes before the blast. His son, a wealthy middle-aged businessman, yearns for his own estranged child. A young man, Sadeq, has a dead-end job snatching cars from people who have defualted on their bank loan...

1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. He's a world away from Karachi and the family he left behind. But Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. £20 on the fruit machine, 50 on a...

1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. He's a world away from Karachi and the family he left behind. But Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. £20 on the fruit machine, 50 on a...