Gun culture.

Byline: Naveen Ahmad - Karachi

LAST week I went to pick up my 16-year-old daughter from her tuition centre in an up-scale Clifton area.

As soon as the students started coming out, two brand new luxury cars arrived and parked right in front of my vehicle. Out came two bearded bodyguards armed with machine guns hanging from their shoulders and stood on the street.

As many children were coming out from the study centre, there was a lot of traffic and the vehicles caused a gridlock. The watchman asked the guards to move their vehicles but the drivers of both cars refused to budge.

Living in Karachi, I have often witnessed men with large-calibre guns acting as personal bodyguards everywhere. They often violate traffic signals, park their vehicles anywhere they please and drive like maniacs. The sight of their menacing firearms probably gives them the licence...