You only live once, make the most of it!
Right now our great leader is pondering what the hell just happened on Feb 18th, yes he was all for free and fair elections but not bloody this! Right now Chaudery Shujahat has no clue what he has said in his post election speech. Right now the winners of our elections are plotting to make…
It is now 10:25 pm on Election day here in Pakistan. So far the results coming in (tentative) as they are being repeatedly called by all the news channels indicate the following very important facts 1) The religious parties are losing big time, they have lost a lot of credibility due to their alleged links…
It is now 6 Pm in Pakistan, a full hour after election day coming to a close. Till now there have been only some incidents of violence and alleged rigging. Many people have by now come on air and expressed the fact that they were more than satisfied by what they have witnessed, this includes…
After waking up at about 11am(its a holiday after all), i and my family proceeded after breakfast and a customary news glance to our local polling station. Our area is Sharfabad, the Halka NA 252 and the city Karachi. I was quite pleasantly shocked to witness total calm, the neighborhoods families were all walking to…
2 Days left to elections now!!! Where have i been you ask??? well i got the urge to suddenly jettison myself from this digital life and go work on something i have been meaning to for ages. I started a novelette. What is that you would ask? well its a book, but in an abridged…
Very soon the streets of my city will be lined with red. No no i speak not of blood people, they shall be lined with glass windows full of red hearts and chocolates and roses &Â god knows what else to celebrate that holiday of eternal love. The great and mushy Feb 14th, Valentines day….
Men are often referred to as “dirty rotten scoundrels” by the general population of desi women everywhere. They are torn apart for lying about the smallest of things, but expected to lie about their mates weight and beauty everyday. They are always blamed for having a one track mind but are castrated the moment, their…
Is 2008 going to be the worst year in Pakistan’s history? We had the riots and suicide bombings in Jan and now Feb has brought us the angel of death wearing a new guise, going “cluck” “cluck” A State of emergency has been declared, by the health authorities as H5N1 has been confirmed to be…
For the last six months or so, the once muted whispers of change have now raised themselves to a crescendo of voices. They all have but one goal, to make sure that our “Great Leader†goes for a long walk on a short pier as soon as possible. No I am not referring to the…
September the 10th 2007 730 Am on the flight back home (A work of pure fiction, any similarity in names is purely circumstantial, written in the linguistic skills of the character depicted) I look at watch, it 745am. The nakur lady forgot to wake me up. I scream for nakur lady other passenger get…