Seeking Solace in New Places

While I relished the freedom of late nights, I didn’t really enjoy the social scene. For the past few years, I’d been on the periphery of the ‘party people’ in Karachi. Seeking to be a part of this set was what most young people from my background craved. After all, there was little else to do in the city at that time: no nightclubs or bars open to the public, no cinemas nearby, no independent cafés where you could sit and have coffee with friends; meeting each other for meals and parties was our main source of entertainment.