You only live once, make the most of it!
Its two days after Ashura which I spent at the beach mind you. Normally i wouldn’t go out on this day at all cause its just depressing with everything closed and what not. To my surprise though many things were open on 9th and 10th muharram this year. Much to the pleasure of one of…
Its cold, almost too cold today in Karachi, its the 8th of muharram and already they have started sealing off the roads for the processions that will take place on the 9th and the 10th in which thousands of members of the Shi’ite community will wear black clothes and mourn. I could not help but…
Around this time of the year I happen to get very moody and mopey, no its not because Christmas is here and I do not get to celebrate it, I do wish all those who are a very merry one! Its because the last week of December marks the end of the year and the…
Hello Hello! I’ve been on a bit of a sabbatical lately, partially cause inspiration hasn’t struck recently… but mostly because winter-weddings have been taking up most of my time! I mean we’re talking 8-10 weddings a week – and you’re expected to be at all three weddings on the same night- this includes eating greasy…
Its very peaceful here, almost still. Nothing is open, the TV channels are full of scenes of Benazir Bhutto’s life and the thousands thronging to her grave to offer their sorrow and duas for her salvation. It truly is a sad sort of a day. With so much left unsaid and so many people jumping…
The petrol station is busy with office workers filling their cars and van drivers pumping in just enough fuel to get them through tomorrow. It is already dark, and the sulfurous lights cast a dull glow over the whole scene. Here, Christmas is cut price boxes of Quality Street and a two for one offer…
The reason for putting up this video is to show the citizens of this city the other side of the story as well. It is not just all black and white. I did not gather these clips, they were shown on all tv channels but sadly as always we only see one side of the…
Not many months to go now before Dubya walks out of the white house and ends perhaps the most hilarious and disasterous term of a U.S president ever. Everything that could go wrong did on his watch and only time will tell if the new “hope” has any chance of solving the problems left behind…
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has described Pakistan as an “international migraine ” and argued that the South Asian country will be one of the hot spots that the next American president will have to contend with. Albright, who served President Bill Clinton in his second term of office, said Pakistan gives you…
A massive earthquake has hit Pakistan yesterday morning in the Ziarat region, 60 km to the north east of Quetta. According to eyewitness reports entire villages have been flattened as the initial shocks were 6.4 on the Richter scale and after shocks around 6.2 and 6.1 which were felt in the afternoon in the same…