I did hear the news of Gakhar Plaza burning, but didn't remain glued to the idiot box the whole day. I had to go out to take care of some errands with my mother and sister. So we got ready and went out for our necessary shopping. The initial plan was to go to Islamabad and then to Saddar. We still had plans to go to Saddar that day too, in spite of the fact that Gakhar Plaza was on fire. We were hoping that the fire would be controlled and things would not get out of hand.
First we went to Super Market, Islamabad to get some stuff. Then late afternoon we returned from there. We used Murree Road (yes i know it is now called Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Road but can't seem to call it that, at least not yet) to get into Pindi as that would have been the shorter route to Saddar. As we approached Saddar we saw a couple of ambulances coming from that direction. We instantly thought that those must have been coming from the fire incident place. We prayed that people carried by the ambulances would be fine after a little treatment at the hospital. But this sight could still not budge our intention of going to Saddar. We kept going forward.
We forcibly moved ahead slowly as there was a lot of traffic on the road. Still adamant to get to Saddar we kept moving. Only when we reached near KFC and saw the sea of cars on the other side of the road (and on our side of the road too) that we changed our plans. From Ministry of Defense building we moved left and headed home.
And thank God that we did not attempt to get into Saddar or it would have surely been a disaster for us.
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