Waqar from MBA: GIVE ME MY PHONE BACK!

Last month, my cell phone was stolen from SZABIST. An MBA student by the name of Waqar found it lying in the cafeteria and picked it up. He called the most recently dialled numbers and said he found this phone and would like to return it. He was told to leave the phone with the guard, instead Waqar chose to simply keep the phone. When I called my number, he picked up and said he would return it tomorrow as he has another class. He continued leading me on this way and kept up my hopes of seeing my phone again for another few days then shut it off and refused to pick up any calls. There is absolutely no logical reasoning behind this persons actions. Of course it was my fault in not getting adequate information from him and forgetting my phone in the cafeteria in the first place, but it makes no sense to tell me that he's going to give it back when he had no intention of doing so.

On a larger scale, Karachi is like paradise for cell phone snatchers. According to Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) at least 0.4 million mobile phone sets were snatched from Karachiites over the last two years out of which 24,000 mobile phones were recovered due to joint efforts of CPLC and police. CPLC Chief Ahmed Chinoy told PPI that during past two years, over 0.4 million citizens contacted the CPLC and requested to block SIMs of their snatched mobile phones. However, the given figure is nowhere near the actual number of cell phone's stolen since it only reflects the complaints of the educated class. Even if that figure is considered, it adds up to almost 550 cell phone snatchings every day, which gives us a glimpse of the freedom enjoyed by street criminals in Karachi and the inability of police to contain the crime.