Co m i c s fo r P e ac e P r e s e n t s

IBRAHIM AZIZ
HANIYA ATHAR
aRISHA ALI
BILAL AHMED
And their mentor Joshua Dysart
 Writers/Creators and Concept Art:
IBRAHIM AZIZ - Concept Art
ARISHA ALI – Writer
Comics For Peace
HANIYA ATHAR– Concept Art
BILAL AHMED – WRITER
Comics for Peace is an initiative that seeks to encourage and promote
positive social change through the vibrant medium of comic books. This Mentor:
comic book is one in a series of five comic books that were authored by Joshua Dysart

teams of university students from across Pakistan, creating stories that bring Creative Director:
attention to the societal issues that concern them, including discrimination, Yahya Ehsan
hate, violence and extremism. Working under the mentorship and support
Technical Advisor:
of professional comic book writers and artists, the students have developed Cameron Chisholm
compelling storylines and themes that will raise awareness and provoke
dialogue among their peers and the larger global community. Editors:
Syed Mustafa Hasnain – Chief Editor
For more details, visit www.comicsforpeace.com Khaya Ahmad – Co-editor
Ahmad Almakky – sub-editor

Producers:
Murtaza Hasnain
Rachel Landale
Look out for
Art Team:
our other titles MUHAMMAD HAMZAH SHAFIQ – Illustration
produced under the Hassan Mengal – Illustration
Comics for Peace Maham Hamid – Design/Coloring
Samia Naqvi – Design/Coloring
Program! Abdullah Khan – Coloring/Animation
tehniyat masood - illustration
reyan badar - coloring
rija batool - proofreader

Special Thanks:
Sean Carroll
Carola Mandelbaum
Kenneth Davis
Muneeb Ali

Published by CFx Comics.

Developed with the support of Creative Learning

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23rd March, Year 2053

We will not
falter! We will
not flee! nOt
in the face of
impossible odds,
TODAY IS THE not even in the
DAY FOR COURAGE, face of death!!
FOR HONOUR AND
STATE PARADE GROUND FOR THE TRIUMPH
OF OUR PEOPLE!

hashashin hideout

WE ARE
BLESSED WITH A
DIVINE PURPOSE!
WE WILL
CONQUER ALL
WHO OPPOSE
OUR CAUSE!

frontier’s bunker
MEANWHILE...
 In today’s WOULD IT
news report, ALONE IN THIS REALLY MAKE A
Hashashin and WRETCHED PLACE, DIFFERENCE, IF
Frontiers clash WHAT’S THE POINT I DIDN’T WAKE UP
oN Gawadar OF GETTING UP ONE DAY?
coastline area EVERY MORNING?
where the
state’s forces
intervened and
won the day.

PRESENT DAY : 20th Feburary 2050

these
NIGHTMARES
ARE A CONSTANT
NOW, JUST
ANOTHER NORM
ESTABLISHED IN
NEO PAKISTAN.

finally!

would it make a
difference, if I
didn’t wake up
one day?
 dr. aksan
sahiba, HOW
ARE YOU?

DON’T WORRY BAJI!

THERE’S NO TRAFFIC
TODAY THANKS TO THE
RIOTING HASHASHIN!
Aftaab BHAI, THIS
IS COMPLETELY PROBABLY HAVE A COUPLE OF
UNACCEPTABLE. Do DEAD BODIES IN THE MORGUE
you have any idea BECAUSE OF THEM. THEY’RE
how worried I NO GOOD, ALWAYS LURKING IN
THE SHADOWS AND CARRYING Does Aftaab
have been? ever feel this If he didn’t wake
OUT SECRET MISSIONS,
YOU NEVER KNOW WHO THEY tired? up one morning...
TARGET OR WHY, AGENTS OF that would be
PURE CHAOS. terrible.

THE STATE SHOULD TAKE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR
LETTING THEM RUN AMUCK!
NOW THEY’RE FIGHTING I know how the
THE FRONTIERS! THE STATE streets get
NEEDS TO MAKE UP ITS after the riots...
MIND, BECAUSE THIS IS
I’M SORRY BAJI, GETTING RIDICULOUS.
I HAD AN EMERGENCY
DeLIVERY, I’LL
MAKE IT UP TO
YOU THIS WEEK.

...BUT THIS IS TOO

QUIET, LIKE THE
QUIET IN THE
BATTLEFIELD...

...BEFORE THE
AFTAAB BHAI, BATTLE!!!
PLEASE HURRY, I
NEED TO GET
Baby Aunty TO THE MORGUE
is making EARLY TODAY.
Biryani, i’ll
deliver that
for lunch
today.

Fine... Next
time, you’re
late without
telling me, i’ll
throw you into
the corpse
freezer at the
morgue.
 DRIVE!
TAKE A
LEFT!

...amal...?
I’M CALLING
THe POLICE!
NO!
PLEASE!
DON’T!!

TO UNDERSTAND
WHY YOU LIE
BLEEDING ON THE
GROUND, YOU MUST
...YOU HAVE KNOWN IN THE UNDERSTAND HOW
DARKEST DEPTHS OF YOUR THIS BEGAN...
HEART, SEEN THE ATROCITIES
UNFOLD SILENTLY IN THE PAST.
YOU KNOW OF WHAT I
SPEAK, CHILD OF THE
LAST FULL MOON*...
*MEHTAAB: FULLMOON
 Hashashin leaves an
terror estimated 40
attack in Main dead and 120 mother!!!
gulberg, injured.
 WHERE You just got caught
AM I...? in the cross fire of
the hashashin and the
HOW DID I frontiers...
GET HERE?

THESE DAYS THE

CITY IS RIFE with
CHAOS. HASHASHIN AND
FRONTIERS GOING
AROUND UNDER THE
STATE’S NOSE... KILLING
EACH OTHER.

WHO ARE but what

YOU? happened
to Aftaab?

THE
BOY?
HE WAS A FRONTIER
AGENT. THE HASHASHIN
TOOK HIM AWAY AND
BACK IN MY DAY, LEFT YOU to die.
WE STARTED LUCKILY, I FOUND YOU.
CONVERSATIONS
WITH PROPER
GREETINGS! WHY DID
YOU SAVE
ME?

‫اس‬ َ ‫َأ ْح َیا ال َّن‬

‫َج ِمی ًعا َم ْن‬
‫أَ ْح َیاھَا َفكَأَنَّ َا‬ I’LL SAVE
HIM...

DO YOU
KNOW
HASHASHIN!? WHAT THIS
WAIT, WHY DID MEANS?
SHE PATCH ME
UP THEN? WHO
IS THIS LADY?

‘‘whoever saves one

soul, it is as if they
have mankind entirely.’’

IT IS POINTLESS TO
CONSIDER it, YOU
ARE GROSSLY
OUTMATCHED.
 ENOUGH TO BUT HE IS
WHAT DO TELL YOU IT’S A ALONE. I DONT
YOU KNOW FOOL’s ERRAND HAVE A CHOICE THE ABANDONED XINHUA MALL IN GULBERG IS
ABOUT THE TO TRY AND KHALA. I CAN’T BEING USED AS THEIR TEMPORARY BASE
HASHASHIN? CONFRONT THEM ABANDON HIM!
ALONE.

OF COURSE
YOU HAVE A
CHOICE...YOU
CHOOSE TO
LIVE...

THERE’S A RICKETY FIRE ESCAPE THAT

GO HOME... EXPLAIN YOU’LL hAVE TO CLIMB FROM THE LEFT
WHY YOU DIDN’T
MAKE IT TO WORK
LAST NIGHT... THERE! i remember an OPENING ON THE ROOF FROM WHERE THE CEILING
CHOICE MADE! CRUMBLED. CLIMB DOWN AND you should FIND HIM THERE.
YOU COULD
HAVE LEFT ME
TO DIE IN THE
STREETS. AND
GONE ABOUT
YOUR DAY, BUT
YOU DIDN’T!

he should be BEHIND ONE OF THE PROJECTION SCREENS. I REMEMBER WATCHING

TEEFA KI JAWANI 5 ON IT back before all this started... GOOD TIMES.
Okay... fine.. I’ll help
you. I’ll tell you how you’ll
to find him... how to really
get into their base... help me?

i’ve
watched
from the
sidelines
too long

maybe... maybe
your generation
can overcome this
cycle of hate...
There you
are!

BE QUICK! YOU MIGHT just have enough time to

save him! i know how they operate... they’ll take
their sweet time arranging his Transportation.

s#@*!

How did
Its okay Baji... it’ll THEY Find
be alright... just us!?
take a deep breath...

No Matter... We’ve
got THEM now!
There’s no where
to run!

RUN!!!
What do
you want
with HIM?
Let him go. He’s
just a harmlesS...

THESE
MATTERS ARE
BEYOND YOU!
BY COMING HERE YOU
HAVE CHOSEN YOUR
FATE! YOU HAVE CHOSEN
TO WASTE YOUR LIFE
FOR THIS DECEITFUL
FRONTIER AGENT.

We’ll
see
abo...…

BUBBLY!
 WE ARE NOT
GOING TO KILL
THEM!

THEY ARE
MURDERERS!
HAVE YOU LOST
YOUR MIND?!

THEY’ll HIT US
BACK HARDER IF
WE LET THEM
LIVE...

WHO’S THE
BANDI*?

*slang: girl

SHE’S MY
DAILY rickshaw
SAWARI!

WHY DID YOU

BRING HER
HERE?

i‘m here to ughH...

save him!
No one Brings
me Anywhere!
WHAT? I DIDN’T
SAY I WANT TO
COME ALONG!

HAVE A PROBLEM
WITH KHWAJA
SIRAS*?

...THAT’S NOT
WHAT I...
SO THIS IS IT, A LIFE OF
UNCERTAINTy...DANGER...BUT FOR WHAT?
LOOK! YOU DON’T HAVE
MUCH OF A CHOICE!
STAY BEHIND AND GET
KILLED, OR, COME WITH
US and, maybe, LIVE... farewell,
CHILD OF THE
FULL MOON.

*TRANSGENDER

FINE.

LOVE THE
ENTHUSAIM
SHOULD’VE LET 23rd March, Year 2053
US KILL THE
HASHASHIN BACK
THERE

I’ve lost
more than
most at their
hands...

but this
cycle of
violence..
ıit needs
to stop

whoever kills a soul, it is as if he has slain

mankind entirely. And whoever saves one soul,
it is as if he has saved mankind entirely.

TO BE CONTINUED...
 Mehtab, a doctor with a dark past is sent into a whirlwind of violence and
chaos when her friend is taken by the wicked Hashashin. Along her journey,
she is forced to face her inner demons and battle them to make peace with
her past. With some help from kind strangers, she will fight for justice and
herself.

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