Parachinar is the capital of Kurram Agency, and the largest city of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Parachinar is situated on a neck of Pakistani territory south of Peshawar, that juts into Paktia Province of Afghanistan.Parahchinar was the place where i was born, as i grew up i got more and more attachted with the beauty of the place.During the period of summers i and my family would go for picnic every weekend.what i really love about the place was the cold weather with small fortified villages ,orchards ,dark pine trees and a river flowing through Khurram valley ,Parachinar has all it take to be paradise on earth.
But today the paradise seems lost to terrorism and moreover sectarian violence destroyed the peace of the city. what a curious thing is fate,a historian looking back in time at Parachinar would not be able to imagine a scene of turmoil and chaos whereas in present day ,a civilian there would be standing amidst the wreckage mourning a paradise lost.The certainity that peace would always prevail in the land of green carpet feilds and quietly flowing river has been shattered and without certainty comes helplessness.
Even the coffin makers must be left to weep.How many of them are hard at work now, cutting up wood and adding finishing touches, wondering which one of their hand made coffin might be theirs to lie in.
