You only live once, make the most of it!
Its very very hard to stay focused in a country like Pakistan. Not so long ago in the ending weeks of 2009 I wrote a very upbeat cheery article about the incoming new year and how Karachi was going to celebrate it. On the 10th of Muharram, that article and any future hopes of celebration…
I have often heard people talk of the “call of the wild”. A feeling so unique one has to actually be there to experience it. Till I took this off road adventure though these phrases seemed like hogwash to me. Still it troubles me that most of Pakistan cannot ever see what I have in…
The whole world seemed to believe for the last year or so that the Pakistani government was about to fall down in face of the incoming hordes. By hordes I refer to the militants which are battling our army these days in south waziristan and as reports filter in are proving to be a tough…
Oct 24th Saturday saw us, me and Dr Awab that is standing in front of a pleasant surprise. A small throng of students in front of the press club with banners, megaphones et all denouncing the Taliban with passion. They had a press release they were organized and they came from 4 different colleges and…
It gets harder and harder to write everyday. So bizarre is the scenario in Pakistan that the news feed jacked into my mind is full of people exploding at different places, human bombs strike us every day, killing all around them in their suicides. Every single day brings reports of suicide bombings in different cities…
Well what a week this has been. Its pretty tough living in this heat in Karachi, although shockingly the electricity has not gone for 10 days now. How can we go from 8 hours of no lights per day to no power outages for this long? Did someone push a magic button? What is the…
Not a day goes by without some sort of threat in Pakistan to its citizens. by these mysterious men we have come to know loosely as the Taliban. We have as citizens of this country faced, murder, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, days without electricity and food shortages, we have dealt with car jacking and god…
Today was a great day, I arrived at the national bloggers conference at the Regent plaza hotel around 330pm and stuck there till almost the end. What I got to hear and see were great speaking sessions by some of the most noteworthy bloggers in town, Jehan Ara, Awab, Farhan, Ammar, Asghar, Raja, Ramla, Ammar(Urdu…
To all the Bloggers out there and the Bloggerettes and the Blaggers and the Blaggerrets, the 18th of April shall see us gather under the roof of Regent Plaza Hotel Karachi to unleash our collective might upon this land. Hmm sounds skeery? Actually no its going to be a “National Bloggers Conference” where the IT…
Merely a day after the entire civil society and intelligentsia of Pakistan seemingly erupted over the shocking footage of a 17 year old Chand bibi being flogged by militants, she has come out and denied the whole thing ever happened. According to the story that was broken first in “The News” the investigation team visited…