Posted on June 29, 2025
Sukkur:
Since their childhood, life for women like Dulari has never been easy. Looking at their situation, it seems that their life is stuck in an endless cycle of misery.
The new Pind is one of the most densely populated areas in Sukkur where various communities, including Sindhi, Ourdou, Punjabi, Pathan, Brohi, Saraiki, Hindus and others live without even basic civic installations. The main road leading to a new Sukkur track is damaged with large craters in certain places, and being the only main road in the locality, it remains buzzing all the time, except for a few hours, from the end of the evening to the morning.
According to a survey, almost 90% of the population is poor and lower than the middle class, because most of the people who live there belong to the work class or are government employees of low content. There are many colonies and neighborhoods in a new track, notably the colony of Pathan, Ahmed Nagar, Islam Colony, Mughal Colony, Agha Badruddin Colony, Chachar Muhalla, Brohu Muhalla, Darzi Muhalla, Mahar Muhalla, the Muhalla and Mohammadi Jamia Masjid Muhalla police. Among these colonies and neighborhoods, there is Sochi Para who houses many Hindu people who, by profession, are shoemakers. Although there are many localities in the new Pind where the lack of civic installations is obvious, when we talk about Sochi Para, it can be qualified as the dirty neighborhood of the new track for two reasons: the lack of civic installations and the indifference of residents to the hygiene in the region. Most of the residents of Sochi para coming from very disadvantaged horizons. They barely survive in small dark houses, built in very narrow streets which are often filled with wastewater. The exterior walls of houses and other structures are tainted with Gutka pins (a shape of smokeless tobacco composed of Aréca, cut lime, catechu and roasted and finely chopped tobacco) like most inhabitants, including children, are users of Gutka.
The entire new Pind is inhabited by mainly disadvantaged people who are either without instruction or very basic schooling. Many of them are inclined to drug addiction due to the easy availability of all types of drugs. A large number of people freely consume drugs and drug sellers register money in the region under the umbrella of the local police. Games of chance and prostitution are also enormous threats in the new swimming pool, pushing the young generation in the grip of people operating these illegal companies. The game is a great attraction to earn easy and quick money, but generally, most players go home. Street crimes are crawling and the police seem helpless or ignorant of the situation. Electricity flight is quite common throughout the region; Some people are involved in this fraud with the connivance of certain septo officials, while others fly electricity by themselves.
Dulari, as well as her husband and her six children, live in a house in a room in Sochi by. Apparently, she compromised the conditions of her region and looks happy, or she claims to be. Her husband parru, like other men in her community, is a shoemaker and works in downtown Sukkur to win a livelihood for her family. His income is too thin to fully meet the needs of eight people. Dulari is an expert in the manufacture of Rilli (a type of traditional courtyard or bed-bed from the Sindh). Couture of small pieces of fabric together, the process involves a lot of hard work, and the completion of a rilli requires at least fifteen days. “Nowadays, the preparation of a Rilli takes a lot of time and money, and the price that traders offer us is not even enough for the equipment used to make a rilli,” says Dulari. According to her, electricity in her region remains suspended for about 18 to 19 hours a day, which makes her impossible to finish even her household chores, leave alone by making a rilli which requires an appropriate light. “So I do the best to end my Rilli’s work during the day because after sunset, nothing can be done, except to withdraw in bed,” she said with a big smile showing her stained teeth of Gutka.
Speaking of his children, Dulari says: “Neither my husband and I have never gone to school or our children only want education;
Answering a question about the use of drugs in his region, Dulari says that it is quite common and that no one cares. “When people are without enough money, they are attracted to crimes and drug consumption is one of them,” she said, adding that even children and young girls are addicted to drugs. “Players mercilessly steal young gourmets, in order to earn money, often lose their money harvested in the playing.” According to her, the people who manage the gaming and prostitution deil are so powerful that they continue their “business” without any consequences. Sometimes the police go down in the gaming and prostitution deals and also proceed to arrests, but the next day, the suspects are released. In his region, it is the poor who must pay the price.
Kamla is another woman living in Sochi Para, and without any work to keep her busy, she continues to travel the whole region for gossip sessions with her friends and knowledge. Kamala, at the end of her forties, has three stepdaughters and ten grandchildren. It is a very popular figure in the region, because it is interested in the resolution of conflicts in the community and is sadly famous for using abusive language, which is a routine practice for many men. Before speaking at L’Express PK Press Club, she reached the lateral pocket of her Kurta and released a sachet of Naswar (a wet tobacco product and powder), made a small ball and placed it inside her lower lip. She says: “All the men in our locality are too busy to give their family time, but they have enough time to spend the drug and play skills.”
Answering a question about the use of Naswar, Kamla says: “I was also used to preparing Bhang (a edible mixture made from buds, leaves and flowers of the female cannabis, or marijuana, plants) sometimes, in addition to chewing gutka, which is quite common in our locality.” Answering another question, she said, “Why would I take care of domestic tasks when I have three daughters-in-law?” Now is it their turn to serve me? ” When they were asked what would happen if her daughters refused to serve her because they had to take care of their children in addition to doing the daily tasks. In response, she spits on the ground, and using an abusive language against the replicas of her daughters-in-law, “they cannot dare to say no because I can beat them in black and blue.” To another question, Kamla answers, proudly smiling: “Regarding my sons, they do not have the courage to face me when I am angry. You can ask people in the locality, and they will confirm my assertion. I am the “badmash” of the region. “
By asking him why residents of his locality do not approach the civic authorities to keep their region clean, Kamla says: “They are busy pocket money and do nothing for the well-being of the inhabitants of this area who live as animals. I think it’s good for them because they do not make sense of the way of living like responsible people. Let them die as animals. “Her tone is an angry tone as she takes abusive remarks against the civic authorities and the people of her locality.
Another story of suffering is that of May Anwari, a widow in the late 1960s, which sold samosas and boiled potatoes in the region. Tearing her story at L’Express PK Press Club, she says that her husband was a worker and used to working in a milk workshop. According to her, her husband died three years ago after being sick for a year. “My sons are now working in the same milk store, but their wages are too little to feed our family with ten people,” she said, adding: “This is why I sold samosas and boiled potatoes to earn additional money.”
May Anwari lives in a two-room house with her two sons, a daughter-in-law and four grandchildren. Answering the question of why she sells samosas and potatoes boiled in a locality where most residents are poor, “she said:” I sell a samosa for Rs.10 and a boiled potato for Rs. 5 and earn good money to meet the needs of my big family. My Belles-Belles-Belles are clothes to add to family income. ” By asking her how much her daughter-in-law wins, she answers: “My daughter-in-law covers ten to fifteen dresses in two pieces per month and invoice RS. 400 to Rs. 600, depending on the design of the dress.”
