Aha the Christmas eve returns to....

Karachi the city of Churches big and beautiful.Most of the churches and cathedrals in karachi are old very old historic from the time of the british raj.At the time of the partition of India muslim came from all over the India and settled here in karachi thus out numbered the local christian community.Today we only notice the mosques both big and small in every neighborhood and hear the criers calling for prayers five times a day using loudspeakers ,megaphones and Japanese sound systems...we never get to hear the church bells from any of the church so we don't believe there is Christianity

also present in this city.It is only on the christmas eve that we get to see the colorful christmas trees in the big hotel lobbies,shops and markets...The churches have the midnight mass and other events this week....but most local people think they are having a parents-teacher meeting at the school because most churches have schools attached to it.
After the partition of India when the British Army left Karachi they handed over the responsibility of protecting the city churches from Muslims and Christians alike to R.C's parsees and buckshees....and the way those beautiful historic structures stand today amidst the concrete jungle of Karachi speaks for its self for a commendable job well done....
I have never been to a Church but I have seen all of them from outside since they are located mostly in the old city area...a visitor to karachi cannot miss the main ones.Its been ages since a church mission visited our door.The church missions used to call upon my parents regularly...trying their hard luck in converting them to christainity...our drawing room where Iam sitting right now used to be a place where eloquence ruled on weekends and holidays.Until the Russians(Soviet) invaded Afghanistan in the seventies....In the eighties and nineties the funded muslim fundamentalism grew....and the churches and christian communities kept a very low profile. and since the new millennium has been ruled by the terrorism and talebans I don't see no hope of a Merry Christmas here in karachi at least not this year.But some of my christian friends from Karachi may be celebrating a white christmas in different parts of the world...do pray your karachi also has a similar Christmas in the coming years....no not a white christmas of course don't be ridiculous a white christmas is not possible in karachi ...a joyous merry christmas for all of karachi.....Ho Ho Ho!