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“man, its really hot.. How long do we have to wait for her?” “just a little while more, her cousin is coming to give us the tickets..at the main gate” “oh no way man, thats two whole blocks away.. grrrr..ok, lets walk” They started at gate 3, and walked steadily towards the main entrance. The…
By Amna Saleem Oh, but a Scandalous subject. I am glad it will hold the readers’ attention till the next few lines at least and perhaps…only till then. For it is natural for a regular man to be engrossed to know possibly all that is behind (and then there are some who are eager to…
We all sang odes to it, we all thought it was gonna save this country but in fact the following is what democracy has given us in the last 100 days. Yeh sure some of these problems are world wide and some of them are not the direct result of democracy but hell they are…
Three years ago there were only two countries in our region without an academy for the promotion of performing arts, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2005 the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) happily put an end to this misery in our neck of the woods at least. To put it simply, NAPA represents an…
I was pretty much minding my business doing closing at my shop today when a bearded figure walked in greeted me and slapped the following down on the counter, he then nodded gave me the once over in a pretty stern manner and walked out. Needless to say upon reading the said pamphlet i was…
Its been quite a strange week this last one. In between various weddings attended by me and my clan, i wonder why people get married in this heat? Its horrible weather to get a crowd of people together to have spicy food to say the least. I have also come to the realization that me…
Written by Ramla Akhtar The problem is that women all over the world, and in the society that I know most – my own – are brought up under this oft intangible belief that they are lesser beings, created for the sole purpose of scrificing and pleasing others around them. If they don’t have a…
They arrived at Karachi airport last night, with the famous blue shirts and the tri colors of the Indian Flag, to a rousing welcome by fans weary and thirsty for some semblance of cricket in this country, to start off the Asia Cup 2008 which promises to be an exciting event. True that many columnists…
The only fact in this book – is that General Zia’s plane took off , and crashed four minutes later. The rest is a delightful tale of fiction, with a humourous version of zia’s character, of the mangoes in the plane…the imagery is delightful, the author has painted many a vivid picture of army life…the…