It is incredible to see how little, if any, headway was made towards political stability or accountability in the past 20 years and then suddenly how significant a revolution has silently yet surely ...
I have often wondered why, despite the overwhelming practice of charity that Pakistanis so openheartedly adhere to, our society has not been able to break the barriers of economic disparity, where ...
I’ve realised that if you’ve grown up in Pakistan and have been fortunate enough to spend every Eid with family and friends, you’re basically spoiled for life. Nowhere else will you ...
I am a simple person with simple needs and unlimited wants. I live my life like life should be lived - self-servingly, of course. Hey! I didn’t make the rules, survival of the fittest is ...
Pakistani politics has always been volatile. There are many theories as to why this volatility exists, but the fact remains that historically all political models have been corrupted by power ...
Anyone who is familiar with the game of chess would know that unlike other sports, in chess very little has to do with luck. All the information is available to both parties equally; it is the ...
I am traumatised! The sky has fallen, all is lost and there is no justice, no hope. My prized possession, my livelihood, my whole life’s worth…….gone; in a twisted turn of fate I ...
We all talk of change, yet few are willing to practically bring it about. It is not about huge sacrifices or backbreaking hard work, it is not even about monetary donations or exhausting social work, ...
It has been a creeping realisation for some time now whether the custodians of our faith are doing more damage to the Islamic philosophy than the so-called infidels. Considering how loudly they talk ...
It has been recently suggested to the medical community to conduct extensive research on a new virus being hailed by all and sundry (read emancipated and not) as ‘Heil Fuhrer NFP’. It has ...
There is a new breed of malicious intolerance doing the rounds these days. Forget your ignorantly mulish mullah, the venom spitting doomsday predictor, the self-righteous hypocrite or the arrogant ...
If ever, you have the misfortune to witness a battle of wits between the confused and the confounded, the only party that will emerge as the loser will be you - the frustrated. It is this frustration ...
We live in strange times…….difficult times! Our eyes upward questioning, hoping, praying to the All Benevolent, All Knowing striving to be patient and yet impatient to see the end of ...
As far back as I can remember, one thing that I was always known for by anyone who knew me, whether as passing acquaintances or fast friends, was that three subjects were explicitly taboo as far as ...
I once read somewhere that if you want to make a difference for a day, feed someone; for a decade, plant trees; for a lifetime, educate people. So many of us carry in our hearts a sincere desire to ...
Reading the title of this narrative, not only will one stare incredulously at me, but also have, in all probability, serious doubts about my mental stability; for which, I won’t blame them in ...
My life is represented by the maxim “the grass is greener on the other side”, but I find solace in the fact that I am not the only one suffering from this weakness of the human condition. ...
I love being a Pakistani; it is the most exciting existence ever! I laugh in the face of blue (yes, you read right – ‘blue’), red or even yellow (is there one???) passports, for I ...
The courtship, the marriage, the honeymoon…….after all the excitement of the whirlwind, that is inbuilt in our culture when it comes to the union of two individuals or rather two ...
Remember those bygone days when young ladies used to talk like ladies and boys used to treat them as such; pity and a thousand pities that that is just what they are now - bygone days. In all ...
Friday, 24 May, 2013
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