Preface: Some harsh and bitter observations, thought-provoking for the sensitive souls of writers, continue to nag them until they give voice to their anguish. However, it should not be deemed a prerogative of a writer to be moved by the moral or social highs and lows. Rather, every common man must be 'distracted' by them. Although an apathetic attitude towards the ongoing social traffic serves our own parochial interests, it is not what is required of us, being the paragon of all creatures.

A bus driver, while sharing his observations, opened up about having witnessed a stark contrast between a father's attitude towards his daughter and that of a brother towards his sister. Once, when the fleet of coaches arrived early in the morning after a Murree tour of college students, the girls got off the coaches, staggering and wobbling because of inertia, sleep and travel sickness. Whereas fathers rushed towards their daughters to hug them and lift their luggage, the brothers of some girls gave a cold shoulder to them. They neither walked towards their sisters nor........

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