
Islamabad, Pakistan — On a bitterly cold December morning at 10am, Shah Bulbul loaded his two suitcases on a bus, and, along with his wife, Bibi Roshan, and two children Umaima and Arsalan, bid adieu to his hometown of Ghizer in northern Pakistan.
They were about to undertake a 30-hour journey to Karachi, the country’s largest city situated in the southern province of Sindh, with the hope of restarting their lives.