You only live once, make the most of it!
In the last week we have seen our security agencies, police as well as the armed forces involved in a full out frontal assault on the militants that scour our lands. They have not only taken back control of the beautiful Swat area, previously over run by zealots but have made some key arrests of…
Last week an interesting bit of news passed under my eyes. We as in the Pakistan nation have requested our brothers of the long robes to resume the oil credit facility given to us in their largess after Pakistan’s nuclear tests in the past. This was a time when sanctions were placed on us and…
We are often curious of what exactly entails Pakistan’s image in the international world. Yes yes no matter what our cousins in swat tell us while stroking their beards it does matter people! We really cannot kill people for not having being born in Muslim households and we seriously cannot think of things like the…
Somewhere in January 2008, the day of the Business Plus interview. (A work of pure fiction, any similarity in names is purely circumstantial, written in the linguistic skills of the character depicted) I open my eye and look out of blanket, whole house still, very quiet. I think of Abba Jee lying in his…
Everyday while driving to my workplace… which is located in the bowel of the city in the I.I loser road area. I try to keep my focus on driving as swarms of motorcycle wallas zoom around my car, going through the smallest of niches the tiniest of crevices at breakneck speed. Sometime i feel like…
Children they say always speak the truth. Mainly because at their age their minds are not influenced by anything worldly so they speak what they think and rightly so. Just a few days ago my daughter who is 4 at this time spoke to me about her recent school organized field trip to the Karachi…
The 10th of Muharram draws to a close without thankfully any incident of violence or terrorism. The mood is somber and peaceful here in Karachi as the agencies which protect us have finally stepped up and arrested some people day before last. These suspects had large amounts of arms as well as cyanide to add…
In the last 10 years or so we have all watched in horror as disaster after disaster has struck the world. The events I am referring to are mostly man made ones which have left an indelible mark on our history and our conscience, they have also lead to a change in the very thought…
When the history of the year 2008 is written, it will read something like this. In the first week of the year, Iranian boats attacked three US Warships in the Strait of Hormuz. This was the beginning of how the Invasion of Iran began, purely as a defensive measure that the United States had to…
Dear Mr Mahsud I write this letter to you as a fellow Muslim and a sympathizer. For the last year or so, you have taken up the mantle of the Emir E Taliban in your area and plunged as all into a constant fear of suicide bombings, killings, militancy etc etc!! What gives man??? What’s…