‘Containerabad’: Pakistan’s capital and truckers bleed money amid lockdown

Islamabad, Pakistan — Two boys scale the rusted corner of a shipping container marked “EVERGREEN” in block white letters. They kick up into handstands, legs steady, without so much as a glance upward, even as traffic passes on the road behind them.The clip runs 27 seconds, cut exactly to a verse from rap singer Cheema Y’s Punjabi track “Police”, about containers of smuggled goods crossing the border that nobody can account for.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Can Pakistan’s Sohail Afridi win freedom for ex-PM Imran Khan?list 2 of 4‘Source of anxiety’: Pakistan cracks down before march to free Imran Khanlist 3 of 4Pakistan seals roads to Islamabad before protests for Imran Khan’s releaselist 4 of 4Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s sisters arrested before planned PTI marchend of listThe four-tonne container beneath their feet carries nothing at all. It is one of what transport associations and officials put at between 1,500 and 2,000 heavy steel boxes barricading Islamabad’s roads ahead of an opposition march.The idea for the video, shared on Instagram six days ago, was the brainchild of 26-year-old Mujaddad Asrar, a callisthenics and parkour athlete. Asrar has been stagin...