Here comes the change?

There is a strange feeling in the air these days. No its not the smell of rotting blood from the carcasses strew about after Eid ul adha but something a little more unfamiliar. Everywhere I go and whoever I meet talks about one subject alone, what should we make of “Imran Khan” Previously the same…

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The novelist – chapter 3

“Old coot, bastard” exclaimed Jalal having inhaled some of the dust kicked up “Well what do you except man, after the way you spoke to him we could have at least gone back with him” muttered zarmina, knowing they would probably have to in the next hour or so as the afternoon sun was burning…

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The novelist – chapter 2

“You really cannot be serious” she looked at her husband in a mixture of shock and more than a little bit of nervousness as they sat at the real estate agents office. A dingy mixture of island green artificial carpet and too bright yellowish walls. “Well if you have an idea that wont let go,…

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As the crow flies – U.A.E

Its seriously hard catching morning flights, especially for a geek who sleeps or nods off rather at his laptop by around 3 am. So it was on the day of my travel to Abudhabi and Dubai. The flight was at a hellish 550am and I had to be literally pushed and dragged by the missus…

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The novelist – chapter 1

The novelist is a series of writings by me which i will be publishing chapter by chapter, it is the tale of a couple looking for destiny but meeting something they did not even deem possible in their lives. ___________________________________________   The rain hit the windows with a sound like thousands of little hands beating…

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Pkrelief update

Relief initiatives completed this week 1) Abdul Sattar Ishaqani and Nishat wellfare organization combined with us to bring relief in the form of 500 ration hampers as well as medicines and a medical camp to the area of Sanghar. Pictures of this undertaking are available here 2) Hamid Yahya and his team from CFC took…

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Upcoming Pkrelief initiatives

Sanghar Hamper distribution The sanghar area in sindh has been very badly hit in the last few days.  As per local contacts the main city has been completely engulfed by water and is not accesible by car anymore. We are planning to distribute food rations of 8 days to 500 families in this area through…

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Pk relief mission badin part 2

  Two hundred people have fallen prey to the devastation that hit Badin and other areas in Sindh by more than 1,000 millimeters of rain in the last month. This is the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Sindh. Compare this to the 70 odd millimeters of rain that has fallen in Karachi over the past…

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Pk relief – Mission Badin

The recent rains have caused tremendous damage in Badin and Baluchistan. The NDMA estimates more than 200,000 people displaced as 100 villages have been swept with water from a 200 foot wide gap in the salinity drain there. As of an hour ago the army has started a huge operation in Badin and are trying to get…

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The human tragedy remains

I was standing on the banks of a muddy tributary making its slow rippled way through rice paddies. A cold wind was blowing in my face and ruffling the trees freshly washed from last weeks rains. The sky was partly overcast with shafts of lights peeking out from among the clouds onto the fields, it…

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