New Year Eve at Karachi Seaview : Some Bare Truths
Badly deprived and highly frustrated Pakistani young and not-so-young, thousands of rowdy revellers will storm the Sea View side of the Karachi beach tonight this year to celebrate the coming of new year. The discussion of not celebrating the 1st January as the new year start for Muslims is always there, but the truth is that nobody really pays any attention to it.
Every year, people from all over Karachi and even from other parts of country head towards the Sea View to raise their toasts to the new year at 12 and join in the count down. Every time trouble arises. The religious party youth wings make every effort to deter the revellers to not to celebrate new year and the other side retaliates by defiance and that results in rowdy fights and firings. Some of the Boys and girls of Karachi try to imitate the Western style at the beach.
Police also have a field day on this occasion. It stops and frisks the young couples and eventually finds alcohols and other banned things and then after taking their chunk looks the other side. After opening corks of the drinks sharp at 12 midnight, the youth head towards the hotel rooms, guest houses and other joints to have it their way. Last year, police raided sex orgy in Karachi in the clifton area. Sons and daughters of big shots were involved and they were released after apologies within half an hour. Such nude parties and orgies have become a very common thing on the new year eve in various cities of Pakistan, especially in Lahore, Islamabad and in the Karachi.
Yes, it’s hard to admit, talk about and acknowledge, but that is what has become a norm.
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