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About 6000-8000 Pakistanis have fled along with their families into the South Eastern provinces of Afghanistan from our tribal areas. The reasons are simple, with the month of Muharram looming on the horizon, clashes between Shia and Sunni villages are escalating, thus they fear for their lives. So now it has come to this, used…
Its just been announced that the Election commission has fixed Feb 18th 2007 as the new date for elections to be held in Pakistan. News is still coming through on this as i write this. The government has basically said that “Elections are to be delayed till Feb 18th” The immediate results of this could…
As 08 dawned on Karachi in an utterly chilly January morning. It was heartening to see everything either open or opening on the way to work. Petrol stations removed those ghastly shamianas, shops lifted their shutters and things started moving about. The day obviously passed in clearing up the backlog of the weekend and watching…
Today is the last day of 2007, a year which has been both tumultuous and weird in Pakistan. We have seen it all here in this year, with the ouster of the judiciary back in march starting the whole goddamn awful mess we are in right now. I did go to work today,(yes i do…
This weekend was a truly sad one, not just because of a great politician and leader of our country being murdered but what her supporters and other elements did to Karachi in the name of mourning. I present a small showcase of pictures taken by Amean J on the aftermath and riots in Karachi. In…
We watched yesterday as hundreds of thousands descend upon Ghari Khuda Baksh, the ancestral village of the Bhuttos to bury their daughter Benazir in a funeral ceremony the likes of which i have never seen in its enormity or sadness. It was attended by the entire PPP leadership, as well as her entire family. Her…
It is now close to 3 am in Pakistan as i write this. Still the mourners and activists of Pakistan’s People’s party are roaming the streets of various cities in our land chanting slogans like “Blood for Blood”. In Karachi alone more than a 100 vehicles have been torched, on Main Shahrae Faisal miscreants mixing…
Right now… the National Hospital in defense in Karachi is on fire Right now.. the entire nation is sitting glued to their tv sets watching in horror at what is unfolding Right now..various area of Karachi, Peshawar, Sialkot & Pindi are being looted and damaged by angry activists and mourners Right now Benazir’s coffin is…
In what can only be described as a horrible turn of events, Benazir Bhutto chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party has been murdered by a suicide attack on her vehicle as she was exiting her last rally in Rawalpindi. Right now the streets of Karachi are scenes of chaos.. with people running helter skelter to…
Pakistanis as a race tend to be amongst the greatest of discarder’s present in today’s’ world. We often cut loose our hero’s from their umbrical cords without as much as a sliver of thought. Be it cricket or politics or business, we tend to forget, as if there is nothing such as the past. …