Only in Pakistan
Each country in this world has its unique quirks in its inhabitants, culture, music, food etc. In this series of photographs I will try to exhibit a little of Pakistan’s quirky & funny side through pictures.
The game plan
Now that 5 Fasts have passed and I am still here, that is my nicotine addled brain has caught up with the rest of my body I can now pick up my pen again and start what I like best, to write. The 6th of Sept is a pretty important day for Pakistan. We will…
A grim reminder
The Kokoda trail in the hilly slopes north of Port Moresby, the Papua New Guinea capital has just acquired a new reason to be famous. This was the area where in World War II Australian troops fought with the incoming Japanese invaders that wanted to use Port Moresby as a bridge head for the attack…
Kashmir Needs Azadi From India
By Arundhati Roy in The Guardian, August 22 Kashmir is in crisis: the region’s Muslims are mounting huge non-violent protests against the Indian government’s rule. But, asks Arundhati Roy, what would independence for the territory mean for its people? For the past 60 days or so, since about the end of June, the people of…
Ode to da general
Mana ke me aaj mushkil me ghira hun Dekho Tufan may kis qadar himat se khara hun Ab samna hay mujhe mukhalif hawaon ka Par sath hay mujhe ma ki duaon ka Zalim khud mujh pe zulm ka ilzam lagate hain Koi puche ke woh is mulk ke liye kya chahte hain Main tanha ho…
Change is coming….are you ready??
Whenever I hear this guy speak man, it makes me wish again and again we had a leader this genuine!!
Conspiracy theories?
On 24th may 2008 at 10am a white colored Land cruiser started out for an unknown destination from the mountains of South Waziristan. The ISI had credible intelligence as soon as this Land cruiser left that its occupant was none other than the feared Taliban leader Batullah Mehsud. Immediately contact was established with Washington and…
IPhone 3G
Ok so umm explain to me again why i should be going crazy over the new Iphone 3g or going crazy about the iphone at all??? I checked one out..seriously..nothing against apple but this thing just looks good, thats about it and these are my reasons for opting out of the whole.. I am so…
Free Not Fair
Like many other Pakistani’s,  I have acquired an aversion to the Tv screen altogather. I remember when I was younger,, much younger and at that time the entire country would look forward to the nightly news as that would be the only source of info on what’s going on. These days the information provided to…
Ground Realities
There were two historic moments in Pakistani politics yesterday, first the coalition broke (as it was expected to break) within 7 days of the resignation of Musharraf. Which in itself just tells us one thing, that this “grand coalition” had absolutely nothing in common democratically or politically speaking other than the ouster of the commando….