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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…
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…