visiting sukkur 4 - final thoughts
Posted by mansoor on 08 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: travelogue
Okay, now i know this travelogue is getting long and boring.. but i seriously have writers’ block and cant think of writing anything else. Please bear with me…
I present, similarities and differences i found in sukkur~! (from karachi obviously)
SimilaritiesÂ
- You still get to see the same familiar number plates on cars.
- Traffic cops and policemen wear the same uniform! And give the usual mixed feeling of dread/comfort.
- The residential areas can be compared to localities like Gulshan or North Nazimabad, with the same two storey bunglows and sharing pretty much the same architecture.
- There is a flyover (sukkurs’ only)!
- Signs of construction are everywhere, with atleast four new apartment buildings under construction, and atleast two residential complexes
Differences
- The most glaring difference i found was, the weekend is sukkur is STILL friday - saturday for most businesses! While its saturday - sunday for govt. departments, schools and universities!
- There are no signals on the roads!! Well, there are two, but they were plugged off a month after installation.
- There are no busses! The whole city is traversable on foot in an hour, and in 10 minutes by car! Public transportation is in the form of suzuki pickups.
- The water supply is muddy :S A by product of pumping water in from the river i guess. Nonetheless.. its refreshing to bath in!
- An actual, functioning, flowing river!! (and not just garbage dumps)
- You will find beggars in the cities, but not on intersections (since no one stops there). Beggers here hang around petrol/CNG stations and harrass customers after their change arrives. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.. Less walking involved, you are in shade most of the time, you know your victim has loose change, and you negotiate with the pump over for a percentage!
That wraps it up! Next up, dinner with the family… in karachi!!!
Well mansoor, what could i say, yor are simply the best. You depicted a true picture of Sukkur indeed. I really enjoyed visiting my city with you, and of course with different perception, and had no idea what so ever that how beautiful my city is. I am happy now that u won’t ask me any further about WARID’s nework that whether it works at Sukkur or not.
Thanks for being my guest.
Stop the travelogue. I am done with it- move further. Write something fun, like how tempting the chicken was. The tag too:P
no nooooo dont write about food… im trying to go on a diet
parhaii se chutti koi mood nai hei parhnay ka 
i had wished for rain for all together different reasons magar now that its drizzling, theres light and a very lovely amazingly cool wind blowing, i feel in heaven…n btw, this was supposed to go on ur orkut magar now me being all lazy.. 
temme, is the weather in sukkur today as good as in khi? im loooooooooooooooorving thishhhh weather
farooque: it was a pleasure being your guest ma man! had a truly amazing time!
fq: done done!!!!
ud: lolzz! u too huh? btw…. zaroorat kahan say hai?? :S i couldn’t see any neccesity that day (A). and the weather is freaking awesome!!! last nite, i went to boat basin to get food, stepped out of the car, and didn’t even feel like going back in!! stood outside in the wind and drizzle for atleast 15 minutes before realizing there were people waiting for me IN THE CAR!!! :p haha.