Member-only story

From K-town to Gwadar: A memorable trip

Hamza Mateen
5 min readApr 3, 2021

--

Figure 1: Picture courtesy: pakiholic

Those of you who know me personally must be aware that I prefer to stay in rather than going out. This time, I made an exception. I decided to answer the call. I was invited by my colleagues for a trip to Gwadar. I have never been there and neither have they. So, we were more than excited to visit the place which is the talk of the town nowadays.

Gwadar

Gwadar is a port city located at the southwest coast of the biggest province of Pakistan, Balochistan. The population of of this beautiful city is estimated to be 138,000. The population is mainly comprised of native people called Baloch. There is a whole history behind this nation but we are going to stay on the topic. Gwadar has been in the news lately for many reasons. You will see most of those as you read on.

Leaving Karachi

Almost all the folks were new to me but we were somehow connected. A friend of friend or a colleague I haven’t met due to the work from home scenario.

Figure 2: Karachi to Kund Malir

We started our journey from Karachi in the wee hours of Saturday, 20th February 2021. We stopped at a fuel station at Zero Point after which the first stop was Kund…

--

--

Hamza Mateen
Hamza Mateen

Written by Hamza Mateen

Front-End Development Lead at MiFinity | All about Flutter Application Development & Life in Ireland. Flutter App Developer | Lecturer | Writer.

No responses yet