Robbery seems to have been the motive.
Still, in a city where politically motivated killings are rampant — according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, more than 1,300 people were targeted in the first eight months of this year compared with 1,715 in all of 2011 — an armed robbery seems like the least terrifying incarnation of Karachi's lawlessness.
Driss, just out of prison for robbery, seems an unlikely choice -- but he and Philippe develop a bond that goes beyond employer-employee, a friendship between two people who otherwise are marginalized by society.
Too often, they seem to be following the demands of narrative convention rather than their own impulses, and certain developments in the plot — a gunshot, a violent robbery — seem arbitrary and implausible.
Carjacking or robbery seemed to be the suggestion, though she died within walking distance from her home in a relatively safe area heavily populated by students, according to a student.
Some of the plot revelations toward the play's end (what happened to Bartholomew's mother, for instance, and the whereabouts of the big financial haul from a long-ago bank robbery) seem a bit mundane, compared with the clever unfoldings in Act I, and, after a snappy pace, the denouement seems to slow to a crawl.
The group was defunct by 1981, when Boudin joined a band of thugs associated with the Black Liberation Army -- an offshoot of the Black Panther Party -- which executed the Brink's truck robbery and, to judge from bomb paraphernalia and plans found after the robbery, seemed ready to blow up several New York City police stations.
Mr. Moy, of the federal drug agency, said the OxyContin robberies seemed to cluster in certain states.
"I am old and sick now but if we get the right result, I will be able to settle down with my children and try to make up for lost time". From 1970, when he was released from jail having served a sentence for armed robbery, Pinfold seems to have been swept along by events beyond his control.
The good news is, should he be faced with another robbery, it seems Khan will be able to stomach it.
But in the wake of this robbery, it seems the flood gates are well and truly open.
