Letter to Aitezaz from Jahangir Badar

Please read as spelled for desired effect, this is a fictitious letter so dont get all riled up Chory Tza Zessun, Brister at La, LLM Daktrate in La (Onris Kaza, Can Tub) Member Central Xective Kmaitee Dear Chory Saab, In cardence with rules and sub rules, las, bye las and inlas of the Paty, in…

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Shanaakht

Dear Youth of Today, Going through an IDENTITY CRISIS? Well now is the time to find out who you really are!!! The Citizens Archive of Pakistan brings to you The Shanaakht festival – a chance to rediscover your identity. This five day event will run from the 8th to 12th of April 2009 at the…

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The people have spoken

Today is a great day for this country, a defining moment. It is great not just because the Chief Justice has been restored to his rightful place, not because the leaders have finally seen sense. It is a great moment because the people of Pakistan all got together yesterday and showed their leaders that they…

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National Na Ehli

A year and five days, that’s about how long it took for us to go from a joyously democratically elected nation to one fraught with suspicion, unrest and teetering on the brink of a massive implosion of our newly founded freedom. I speak of the day we held our last elections, almost free and fair…

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March madness II

15th March, Long march, 15th March, Long march that is all I have had the pleasure of hearing on any sound waves anywhere in this urban jungle we call kolachi. Our media, our radio channels our political debates, our drawing rooms our bedrooms they are all marching to the same zany unstoppable mayhem that is…

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A letter to Sri lanka’s cricket team

As I write this you have arrived back in your country and doubtless are very relieved at being able to see your family and be with them, to go back to a life which you know is much more valuable now that it was almost taken away. I cannot tell you how sorry I feel…

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Celebrating woman’s day

Woman’s day is coming up here in Karachi and there are several events taking place for this occasion.  Yes not all of us Pakis are the chain them veil them smack them type folks. Specially not a lot of Karachites who not only appreciate but try to empower females by their social activities.  One such…

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Sri lankan cricket team attacked!

9:50am The Sri lankan cricket team has just been the victim of a full on mumbai type assault by 12 men equipped with Ak47’s, rocket launchers and other advanced armaments right smack in the middle of Lahore in the Qaddaafi stadium. The men were stopped only by the elite force in a 25 minute gun…

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