Izzloooiitteee

These days i am having this isslooite awareness inside me. I called islamabad my adopted city in a post a few days back but is it really my adopted city or for all those teens and 20somes who if not born, grew up here. Adopted, yess probably because none of us "belongs" to Islamabad in the verry figurative sense of the word. Our parents come from different parts of the country, boast of different cultures and languages, leave islamabad all isolated on Eid days or any long weekend but its' different for us, i guess. I for one, dont know any other city and come to think of it, was a very cosmopolitan baby for that matter. Born in karachi, moved to Lahore at the age of a few months and then to islooo when not even 3. 3 cities in less than 3 yrs...phew!

Our parents may find it hard to call islamabad their city (exceptions-my father, who has had his life spent equally in about 6 or 7 cities and takes pride in calling himself a citizen of the world) but the generation growing of age now has seen just Islamabad. The diverse milieue of cultures IS itself the culture of Islamabad. Our parents can relate to the Punjabi, the southern punjabi, sindhi, pathan, balochi or kashmiri but we realte to all that. I can go back to my village and feel at home there but i feel more at home in this cultural diversity. The lazy, quiet, gREEN islamabad is my city. annnd besides all that, I recently realised that people relate a lot more to islamabd; the citizens of islamabd are now being charectarised as islooites, a seperate genre in itself. The weasly, sleezy lot who keep to themselves and (for no fault of theirs) are misinterpreted.

P.S. I dont like the Centauras and the widened roads and the double roads and the felling of trees and Mc Donalds in F-9 Park and the GHQ development parallel to the Margalla road and recently this clearing off of a huuuugggge plot of land for some parade ground. And worse, no local bodies in islamabad; Lashari person can go on changing the face of Islmabad and no resentative of the people is there to stop him. Why take it on with the trees...trees are less harmful than humans at least

Will talk about encroachments later. gotta go.