You only live once, make the most of it!
When I was growing up in Karachi around the 1980’s we used to come back from school, have lunch and then cycle to the nearest park to play cricket or soccer to our hearts delight till the sun went down. Carefree days indeed and one misses them sometimes. However these days all three of the…
When the Pakistan team won the 20 20 world cup it was as usual against all odds. No one expected us to be even there in the finals but we were and to the joy of the entire nation we swept aside the Sri lankan’s quite clinically. Back home people went mad as this was…
The worlds over cities are categorized as living habitats on a scale of standard according to their culture, art, life style and food. This is because all of these things constitute together the standard of an ordinary citizens living. We on the other hand have knocked the ordinary out of the equation completely with our…
People normally associate and think of Lahore as the city of food. Although this is true in many respects considering Lahore’s famous gawal mandi and other such areas of street food, ever city in the world has its unique characteristics when it comes to eating out and Karachiites and their beloved city are no strangers…
When the peace accord between T.N.S.M (tehreek E Nefaz e shariat e muhammadi) and the government was broken by the militants moving into Buner and declaring the constitution of Pakistan “haraam†as well as our supreme courts, the naysayers of the Taliban must have released a sigh of relief thinking we will show them now….
Summer has arrived in Pakistan and with the advent of the hot blazing sunshine the exodus has begun. No, I do not mean people fleeing for good to azure shores or our politicians who seems to be able to invent any excuse to speak to the concierge at St Regis in D.C, I mean us…
Since the conclusion of the Aus-Pak series in the emirates we have now won some accolades of merit, as the last series was played against a team who even without their top two players is more than a match for our prowess. The Pakistan team has earned a reprieve of sort in the face of…
While the Taliban pull out of Buner after their “preaching mission” there has come to an abrupt end, albeit after a series of negotiations, the entire country is confused as to what their intentions are and why they are doing what they are doing. One day the spokesman says our entire constitution and what not…
Pakistan as a nation has always had an attention disorder, we crave it we make issues out of it and we revel in it like no one else. The problem is that these days Pakistan has become the hot spot of all hot spots in international media and opinion for all the wrong reasons. Ever…
On my way to work today I saw a billboard, one of the many large ones that litter the vision of those driving in Karachi. It said; “Umrah on easy installments, now everyone can do Umrah†– that pretty much put our current religious compass in perspective for me and I laughed as I imagined…