Too much in a weeks time

After seeing all the poverty in tribal area and the refugee camp it is weird to be in the luxurious Islamabad. Pizzahut, Subways all foodchains are available. But we are happy to be in a relatively safe area again. Relatively as something would happen later in the day. We are spending the day doing practically nothing. We were exhausted of all the impressions and the lack of sleep. Elles had a bit of a cough and wanted to take it slowely anyway. We updated the website, checked our mail, did some shopping and washed our clothes. Then late in the afternoon we saw the news. A member of parliament and 4 other persons were attacked and shot dead only a few kilometres from the place where we stayed. The attackers hit the man with 32 bullets of the 91 found. It happend on the road from Peshawar to Islamabad, the one we had driven the day before. Although we had nothing to worry about, we suddenly didn’t feel safe anymore. Then we heard that riots had broken out in the parliament area. We asked the manager of the guesthouse if there was any reason to worry. He said there was not. But it was too much excitement for us and although we were tired we couldn’t sleep. Let’s see if we can pick up our Chinese visa in one day.