You only live once, make the most of it!
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…
I kind of lost touch with the fact that today was the 20 20 final between Sri lanka and Pak, maybe it had something to do with the 6 hour delay while sitting on a runway in shanghai last night, or how I was ruing the cold truth that I only had a day in…
As I write this, I am hurtling along the Chinese countryside in a bullet train (D Train) traveling @ 204 kms/hr. Amazingly enough the wifi is keeping up with it and working perfectly. The view from my window is a blur of trees, rice paddies, yellow hayfields and equally beautiful and muddy waters of several…
A friend of mine, Farooq sent me this dvd from Australia and after watching it I feel every one of us needs to see this. Ok I have never been big on broadcasting conspiracy theories because they mostly confuse but having been very interested in the “New world order” as well as how certain very…
Above is what the Pearl continental hotel in Peshawar now looks like after today’s suicide bomb attack on it. The militants used the same tactics, group A fires on the security cordon of the target and around it creating panic and dispersing security or killing them. Group B moves in with a car(in this case…
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…
It is quite comical that the world has gone from “suspicion” to “we are at war” status with the Muslim world, if such a thing exists. What is the muslim world?? Is it a world apart from the judeo christian world? Is there a Buddhist world? Do we all not live in the same world?…
On the smelly super high way, coconut oil in my hair Filthy smell of kachra rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance I saw a trucks lights My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There he crouched near the doorway defecation there! And…
By A.K.Chisti MQM is one political party which had been instrumental in not only bringing upon a change but had been in a constant state of introspection throughout her relatively short political years. It was obviously founded as a student reactionary force back in the ever rebellious late 1970’s and later transformed herself into a…
Today the people displaced from the swat region of Pakistan due to our war against the militants have exceeded 3 million. This has happened because the militants are holed up in major population centers in Swat and the general public fearing an all out assault by the army has chosen to vacate their homes for…