You only live once, make the most of it!
Although this will only add to the hate mail I get from across the border since I started sharing my thoughts on the Mumbai tragedy, I cannot help but express my utter disgust at the way Union Minister A R Antulay has been treated. If India wants to be accepted as a true democracy rather…
Winter 08 has arrived here in Karachi in its full and frigid fury. The roads are deserted after about 6pm and thats a big deal here, this city hardly sleeps..even in these times. With the winter however has arrived more bad news in the form of Opec leaders just announcing records production cuts to cause…
Gosh darnit is that the American flag, but I, but I thought we had shocked and awed them all. Well bubba, guess you were wrong eh? Lookit all the Airaqis waving those signs….don’t they look thankful? Pic credits Newyorktimes
Youth, the gears of a countries machine, the lifeblood of a nation’s body, the essence of which all great movements have been made of simply because youth means enthusiasm and energy- not even the sagacity of experience can replace that. However energy and enthusiasm are forces of nature which, when misplaced, can wreak as much…
This is for all the media people in the U.S who have been harping on about the great “rescue” that America has achieved in Iraq and how they have brought the Iraqi people towards a dawn of prosperity pretty much sums it up does it not? For the people who are still out there trying…
Midnight here in Karachi 14.12.08 I am jarred awake by the beeping on my cellphone, another sms I think to myself as i look at the screen, but the next second I am reaching frantically for the remote instead of switching the phone off and going back to bed. The message reads “are we under…
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By Hassan Baig “Mulk khud hi chalta rehay ga” (approximate translation: the country doesn’t need our contribution to thrive) is a sentence many Pakistanis are prone to saying. I confess that till a few years ago, I myself was confident of this misleading notion. Misleading and dangerous – especially in today’s volatile climate. As Pakistanis,…
Tomorrow is Eid Ul Adha here in Pakistan or at least those parts of it that still follow the writ of our government. After going about the business of procuring the animals for the ritual slaughter we engage in every year at exorbitant prices I might add, I decided to take the clan out for…