I will never forget the first time I met Asim in person. Myself and Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera's producer in Pakistan, had been working long days in Karachi chasing down a story on Taliban financing.
Around 1am we arrived at Asim's house, in desperate need of some non-Taliban company.
He struck me as a skinny youth, living a little bit like the character Estelle from the Dickens novel Great Expectations.
This young man staying at his grandmothers house. His work littered the place, and he sat with his friends smoking and sharing good times.
He welcomed us with open arms.
Fiercely creative
I remember thinking that Asim had a wicked smile, and a fiercely creative mind, buzzing with ideas.
He loved to share them and at the end of the evening he promised to take me on a tour of Karachi's galleries.
The next morning he was true to his word and off we went in search of the true art of Pakistan.
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/2/12/2012212114913931580_16.jpg "The miracle generation")
