In the loop :Time for the meek to speak!

When the peace accord between T.N.S.M (tehreek E Nefaz e shariat e muhammadi) and the government was broken by the militants moving into Buner and declaring the constitution of Pakistan “haraam” as well as our supreme courts, the naysayers of the Taliban must have released a sigh of relief thinking we will show them now….

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Aik Alif

Coke studios is a series of jam sessions of fusion music, mainly Pakistani folk and rock sponsored by coke and produced by the ever magical Rohail hayat. This number is by saeen zahoor and noori called “Aik Alif” close your eyes and lose yourself to the music of  the divine, nothing compares.

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Iran revolution or twitterlution?

There has been a huge hue and cry over the Iranian election protests in the last week or so, but to me as a neutral observer the situation is way more fuzzy than it looks. First of all, let us study the facts. There can be no denyingl that Mir Hussein Moussavi has support in…

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China revisited Part III

Its been a week since I arrived in China and after the last post, as I flew back to Shanghai I felt like I was almost part of the fabric of this nation now, ceaseless noisy and restless. The flight back to the center of china was uneventful but the view in the morning of…

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China revisited part II

The city of Zhengzhou in Henan province which I got off in after the last entry is massive and a bit archaic as Henan is the poor part of china or the part most foreign tourists or business travelers do not get to see. The population of henan is about the population of our country,…

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Visa’s for the damned

Summer has arrived in Pakistan and with the advent of the hot blazing sunshine the exodus has begun. No, I do not mean people fleeing for good to azure shores or our politicians who seems to be able to invent any excuse to speak to the concierge at St Regis in D.C, I mean us…

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Pak wins 20 20 World Cup

I kind of lost touch with the fact that today was the 20 20 final between Sri lanka and Pak, maybe it had something to do with the 6 hour delay while sitting on a runway in shanghai last night, or how I was ruing the cold truth that I only had a day in…

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China revisited

As I write this, I am hurtling along the Chinese countryside in a bullet train (D Train) traveling @ 204 kms/hr. Amazingly enough the wifi is keeping up with it and working perfectly. The view from my window is a blur of trees, rice paddies, yellow hayfields and equally beautiful and muddy waters of several…

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The Arrivals Part I

A friend of mine, Farooq sent me this dvd from Australia and after watching it I feel every one of us needs to see this.  Ok I have never been big on broadcasting conspiracy theories because they mostly confuse but having been very interested in the “New world order” as well as how certain very…

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PC peshawar attacked

Above is what the Pearl continental hotel in Peshawar now looks like after today’s suicide bomb attack on it. The militants used the same tactics, group A fires on the security cordon of the target and around it creating panic and dispersing security or killing them. Group B moves in with a car(in this case…

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