You only live once, make the most of it!
There are people who repeatedly say that, “this country has gone to the dogs.†I, for one never agree with them because I feel that there is still light at the end of the long and dark tunnel. Yet yesterday, while roaming around the streets of Karachi at around 2 in the night, I saw…
As I step from the wooden walkway onto the sand I hear the muezzin call shimmer across the water from the neighbouring island. It is early yet, and almost cool; as my bare feet sink through the soft grains they hit a chill dampness that will not be there later on. At noon, the sand…
The unthinkable has just happened in Pakistani Media. I have written in the past about our media making wrong use of the freedoms given to them and this incident is stark glaring in your face proof of what should never be allowed to happen “on air” In a program aired on 7th of September 2008…
Balancing a guitar, the coke bottle, and themselves… … trying not to trip over the rocks, trying to steady nature to suit their unsteadiness. “yeh shaam phir nahin aai gi…â€, voices lilted, wobbled, and carried in the wind, fading out slowing over the moonlit ocean. The waves splashed the rocks gently, and the fine mist…
Five women have been buried alive in Balochistan merely because they married as per their own choice instead of following age old tribal law and traditions. This barbaric act has surfaced only after intense media reporting and for once there is wide scale condemnation of a tradition which has existed for decades but intrinsically reeks…
On 24th may 2008 at 10am a white colored Land cruiser started out for an unknown destination from the mountains of South Waziristan. The ISI had credible intelligence as soon as this Land cruiser left that its occupant was none other than the feared Taliban leader Batullah Mehsud. Immediately contact was established with Washington and…
There were two historic moments in Pakistani politics yesterday, first the coalition broke (as it was expected to break) within 7 days of the resignation of Musharraf. Which in itself just tells us one thing, that this “grand coalition” had absolutely nothing in common democratically or politically speaking other than the ouster of the commando….
Twin suicide bombers struck the Pakistan Armies largest ordinance complex today. There are about 70 people dead and many more are injured. Two suicide bombers exploded themselves at the gates of this highly sensative complex just as the workers were coming out to go home. Thank god they did not get inside or it would…
The phone beeps – *Mushy’s being impeached..go put on geo..NOW*… Frantic flicking through channels, not knowing what to expect, and there sits Musharraf giving his last address. And after a while of listening to how,In the calmest possible tone, he points out, sector by sector, things have improved… how in each area, we drastically rose…
When i was young, which was obviously a long time ago, as my daughter aptly puts it we used to start going quite mad at the 10th of August every year. Trips were made to the nearest flag station which if you are unaware means a makeshift stall setup on the side of the road…