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When Ammar of Teabreak asked for my email on twitter last week I never knew what was in store for me. Yesterday I received an email from him telling me I have been named blogger of the month by Teabreak along with questions which I duly answered to make this interview. Obviously I am overwhelmed,…
Thalassaemia major is a fatal disease of the blood. Many people go on through their lives while having thalassaemia minor and never knowing about it. When two such individuals produce a child , the child has a very large chance of having Thalassaemia major. For a Thalassaemia patient to have any chance of survival they…
For the last year or so the print scene in Pakistan has gotten quite dull, with the same coterie of writers spitting out the same old tilted diasporas in column after column the general public and specially the educated youth of the country have been yearning for an imaginative, focused and liberal read for some…
By Ameer Bhutto In recent weeks and months, the Taliban advances in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan have come to pose a far more direct threat to the Pakistani state than ever before. Not only have they occupied Swat district in the North West Frontier Province under a peace deal with the Government…
As the IPl stutters through its paces having been transplanted in S.A sans the fans, the focus of the entire tournament now seems to be not the teams playing or who is winning but a blog known as “Fake IPL player” Fake IPL Player is an anonymous blogger who claims to be part of the…
With the last match in the Chappal cup between Pakistan and Australia having been played out in front of me on the telly, I can safely say that I am officially bewildered and livid with rage at my team. They started out quite well, beating the Aussies in the first ODI ala Afridi’s magical spell,…
We have all been brought up by our elders to not question men of our faith, some of us were given the leverage to do so and thus developed a higher level of understanding as to what Islam is and what it actually entails. Others however were taught dogmatically and rigidly and thus for them…
By : Farooq Tariq The historic and victorious lawyer’s movement was a rainbow of various political colour. One could see all sorts of political trends trying to give their colors to lawyer’s movement. There were greens like Jamaat-I Islami and Muslim League Nawaz, reds like Labour Party and National Workers Party. There was tri-color Pakistan…