Democracy on vacation

We all sang odes to it, we all thought it was gonna save this country but in fact the following is what democracy has given us in the last 100 days. Yeh sure some of these problems are world wide and some of them are not the direct result of democracy but hell they are…

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Cut for Arts

Three years ago there were only two countries in our region without an academy for the promotion of performing arts, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2005 the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) happily put an end to this misery in our neck of the woods at least. To put it simply, NAPA represents an…

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It begins?

I was pretty much minding my business doing closing at my shop today when a bearded figure walked in greeted me and slapped the following down on the counter, he then nodded gave me the once over in a pretty stern manner and walked out. Needless to say upon reading the said pamphlet i was…

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The Third Tower

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTvkjAH8w4] Recently BBC did a short program in their conspiracy files section on the mystery of the third tower in the 9/11 disaster. For the last seven years experts have been racking their brains to find out the solution to the following mysteries of the third tower. 1) Why did the third tower of the…

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Brain Fart Part I

Its been quite a strange week this last one.  In between various weddings attended by me and my clan, i wonder why people get married in this heat? Its horrible weather to get a crowd of people together to have spicy food to say the least.  I have also come to the realization that me…

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Lawson steps in it

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4gvq-zKmSY] After the Karachi loss to India in the Asia cup, Shoaib Malik chose not to face the media.  Pakistan’s coach Lawson did and proceeded to insult the entire bunch of journos present with his opening speech in which he remarked “please do not make statements but ask questions” after a reporter asked him something,…

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Bushism’s Part 7

The last time i wrote Bushisms, someone smsed me to say this cannot be real, so for proofs sake the second bushism in this edition has a video attached via link. “And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means…

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Bandar Ya Sikandar

The only thing certain about today’s world is that it is in an ever changing flux of events and anything can happen at any moment. To put it simply it is totally uncertain. We are born in this world in the most excruciating of events, there are bright lights, hands pull you out and you…

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Aagahi Jun-Jul 2008

The Jun-July edition of Aagahi has been published with “The News” today. Please click on the graphic or above text to read it online. I would appreciate any feedback to help make it better. Kindly click HERE for feedback.

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Beaten but elated!!

Tee Off time as the openers of Pakistan play like turtles Its about 1am and i have just managed to get back home after going through the experience of a live Ind Vs Pak match right here in Karachi.  As the meticulous planner in me went nuts from last night i spent the entire day…

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