We are a society renowned for its absolute lack of empathy, but every now then then incidents occur that are so horrific, so utterly callous that we are jarred awake from our collective slumber and our self-created cocoons of complacency vanish as if they have never existed. . Once such heart rending incident occurred earlier yesterday when, a young, newly married woman’s life met a tragic and untimely end in a ghastly hit and run accident at Karachi’s posh Seaview area on Friday evening.
Sana Ali, wife of Ali Khurram Pasha, was crushed to death by a speeding car near Sea view Apartments at Karachi’s main beach.
Aqib Baloch, who was present at the scene, narrated the horrific accident on his Facebook page.
According to him “As of today Fri, 25 August between 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm I was on my way to pick my brother up from Seaview apartments. I took the main sea view route which is partially dark at night due to bad street lighting thus when I came near Chunky Monkey I saw a girl aged 23-26 with her phone in the hand and earphones on, who seemed to be was on her way home after jogging on the sea front.
She was headed in the opposite direction to cross the road. And even as she reached the middle of the road suddenly a “White Toyota Corolla “being driven by a man honking the horn like the bastard he was, passed me by accelerating at a speed of 70kph to 80kph. Due to the earphones in her ears, she couldn’t notice the incessant honking of the horn and headed towards the service lane and it was then that she noticed the car heading towards her. She had no time to react and stood stunned in the middle of the road and seemed paralyzed due to the shock and stood straight in her place, for the entire world, like a deer caught in the headlights.
On the other hand, the person driving the car or I must say an animal in an uncivilized human body made no effort to save that poor soul and ran over her as if she were a piece of debris on the road. As soon as the person ran over that girl he didn’t even stop for a single sec and ran away from the scene of his horrid crime.
As this all happened within 5 to 10 seconds timespan I too went into a state of trauma for a while as I haven’t seen an incident of such level ever in my life before. When I stopped my car the first thing that came into my mind was to cover her body up and call the ambulance. Her head seemed to be badly hit as within seconds her head and neck was covered in a pool of gushing blood.
People from the surrounding area rushed to help, Cars and bike stopped to provide a helping hand and police from the nearest police station came to have a look. A couple shouted in the middle “try to call her relatives for identification” and at that time I realised that a heartless scum had already stole her phone without realising how important that phone could have been at that moment.
We waited for 5 minutes and there was no sign of any ambulance so I decided to take her to the nearest hospital in my own car. I was accompanied by a police constable and headed towards the nearest hospital which came out to be Arif Defence Medical centre at Khayaban-e-Bukhari.
Upon arrival the doctor and her team refused to treat her without prior payment and we all were shocked by their response. How could someone go so down to be so inhumane and insensitive, they didn’t even thought for of a while that the person lying in front of her is fighting for her last breath and each second at that moment mattered for that soul. The doctors even hesitated to treat her even after we assured them to pay all the bills by our own selves.
Everyone in the hospital started praying for her recovery from patients to the police constables and on the other side I witnessed that inhuman fiend masquerading as a doctor worrying more for her payment rather than the patient by confirming it again and again without realising how critical her condition was. The doctor refused to treat her further by saying that she needs to be moved to Jinnah hospital and a ambulance was called. As the ambulance reached the hospital we heard the staff saying she had already expired.
We all were shocked by that sad news and were worried that how to identify her and contact her parents. As we went out nearly dumbstruck with grief, a staff member followed us and told us that we have to pay for the bandage which made me feel even more anguish that how could someone be so selfish and inhuman. It wasn’t about money it was about morals, they had no shame in their eyes nor was sorrow in their heart all they were concerned about their Pkr 100 worth of bandages!
This incident showed me the ugly side of our society and the cruelty filled in everyone’s heart. I can’t stop thinking about her and the pain she went through in those 20 minutes. May her soul rest in peace and receive the highest level of heaven by the will of Allah. I wish that Allah provides her family the strength to bear the loss.
I would not only blame the driver of that White Corolla for her death but the person who stole her phone and the staff and the on duty doctor of Arif Hospital equally for the incident.
I want you all to pray for maghfirat for the departed soul and boycott boycott boycott boycott Arif Defence Medical centre!!!
It’s a request to everyone to please be careful while crossing the road and take extra precautions, you might be confident with your body and movement but you never know how careless the person behind the wheel of an onrushing vehicle is.
Yesterday, the cruelty of an inhuman individual took away someone’s precious life and destroyed a family forever. Please be careful while driving a car as your one mistake can put someone’s life in danger.” ( Aqib Baloch at Facebook)
