The revolution is finally upon us: it arrived with a surprising ‘boom’ which, even more surprisingly, many people completely failed to hear and, of those who did, few realise the import ...
This is the fourth year in a row that the once famous apple crop of the Murree area has been decimated by what can only be called ‘Hairdryer winds’ - just when the blossom fades and fruit ...
The stereotypical Afghan woman is still very much alive and struggling to survive, every single, often painful, step of the way towards what increasingly looks like a return to a hefty measure of ...
The muttered volume of whispered discontent murmuring through the Afghan countryside since the violent arrival of foreign forces of supposed ‘liberation’ turned ‘occupation’ ...
It is spring in Kabul where one balmy day runs into the next with ease and in which laughing Hazara street urchins, plastic sandals flapping wildly, chase flyaway kites with the speed of the Olympic ...
The Punjab Government appears to - in the final run up to the elections, of course - be going all-out to try and con potential voters into believing that it actually wants to do something to cut down ...
Mention the word ‘food’ and everyone in the vicinity stands to attention.......mention the word ‘waste’ and no one wants to know.......yet the two, at least here in Pakistan, ...
Recent reports that the Taliban have become more visibly operative in the streets of Karachi are laughingly dismissed by some, angrily derided as pure invention by others and viewed, with the upmost ...
Rabid consumerism continues to wreak havoc on the planet as a whole. The results of this environmental rape and exploitation of natural assets is increasingly obvious right here at home in Pakistan ...
Finding the right words to depict the true, undiluted essence of the only true ‘freedom fighter’ I have ever known, is proving more difficult than expected: he was my ...
With a population of over 190 million and growing, Pakistan is under increasing pressure on many fronts with food production, the provision of water, power and the raw materials necessary to keep the ...
Hell hath no fury like an abused world - is the phrase that slams into my mind with the force of yet another resounding clap of thunder as the storm, raging since last night, renews its incredibly ...
The ‘variations on a blame-theme’ is just about the only way in which to sum up the sickeningly defeatist attitude taken by the population at large in respect of the second devastating ...
With alarm bells ringing left, right and centre, why, it is pertinent to ask, does no one, absolutely no one, appear to be paying the slightest bit of attention to what is happening here: yes - here ...
Despite endless promises to the contrary - promises that the entire nation knows to be nothing more than blatant lies from the very second they are made - this winter has seen far more loadshedding ...
The insular brand of self-inflicted ignorance wallowed in, with sickeningly obvious, pitiful to observe, delight, by the vast majority of Pakistanis who are never, apparently, happy unless they have ...
January and…….hope you are sitting down…….there were people on The Mall, Murree, in t-shirts.I frankly admit that I, sweating profusely in four layers of clothes, did a ...
The last couple of weeks have witnessed an escalation of violence and sheer showmanship, which is completely beyond the pale and which, furthermore, has left the entire population reeling in a ...
If there is one subject people never get bored with, it just has to be ‘food’. And yet, if truth be known, this highly emotive subject is, from whichever angle it is examined, a debate ...
Asadullah is bitter and, on hearing his story, it is easy to understand why he, and many like him, are totally against the Karzai regime in Afghanistan and are increasingly against the presence of ...
When it comes to ‘goof-ups’ our national carrier really does take the biscuit and, while this scribe long since vowed never to sound off about PIA again - readers already having digested ...
Farishta is utterly devastated: an aunt from a Taliban-infested rural area had, seven months ago, brought her small hoard of gold jewellery to Farishta’s Kabul apartment for safekeeping and had ...
Feeling cold is relative to a number of things aside from the temperature: heating, sufficient clothes and bedding, adequate food, having a weatherproof roof over your head, health status, age, etc. ...
As the country edges ever closer to the brink of a very dangerous precipice, and those who should know better simply stick their collective head in the sands of selfish futility, it is heartening to ...
Grabbing the bull by the horns in the name of profit is something that many Pakistanis are extremely good at, but honesty has developed the bad habit of falling by the wayside in the process. Take, ...
As the winter chill begins to bite, sooner up here in the mountains than down in the relative warmth of the plains, the second-hand shoes and clothes market has swooped into Murree with a vengeance. ...
It was the darkest hour of the night: that intense blackness before the sun comes skimming over the mountains to flood the world with radiance and the promise of life. Khan Sahib was on his way home, ...
It seems that every time I so much as blink these days, yet more construction begins on the mountainside I call home. Not that I am against necessary construction, if, that is, it is a sensible and ...
When a group of people with peace in mind gather together for two days of presentations, poetry, music and dance, issues such as cast, colour and creed completely cease to exist: love and harmony ...
The first sprinkling of snow lays glittering blue-white on the heights of the Pir Panjal mountains across the Jhelum Valley in Azad Kashmir and night time temperatures are dropping rapidly now that ...
Sunday, 26 May, 2013
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