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...there was an unknown    heaviness  descend  in his heart  at Karachi platform  when he felt the train move,  extraordinary distances! unseen  fears  spun an invisible  web around him , he felt trapped and choked,  he couldn't react or break away  , he sat unmoving and completely silent in his seat

Noises  on the platform of the  passengers and a strange kind of  mood, he was to return  from shallot immediately  but he felt he was leaving his  own  home Karachi for ever,  the Karachi where he was raised and spent his childhood in the streets  , where he grew up and became a youth  and now that he was  a fully grown young man  and unreasonably felt a pang of emotion  as his train left the platform 

They had occupied  their berths,  fauzya and he  faced each other on window seats and rahela sat beside fauzya,  Karachi  to sialkot was  twenty two hours journey  if the  train wasn't delayed,  trains are normally  late , the three of them silently watched  the  fleeting  scenes flashing past  through the window