27 Dec revisited

Its very peaceful here, almost still. Nothing is open, the TV channels are full of scenes of Benazir Bhutto’s life and the thousands thronging to her grave to offer their sorrow and duas for her salvation. It truly is a sad sort of a day. With so much left unsaid and so many people jumping…

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Traitor

I do not often review movies and for a good reason, its not often that i like or hate one enough to write about them. However this little gem is quite worth the hour and a half you would spend on it. Traitor is the story of an American special forces op shifting to the…

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A Christmas Journey

The petrol station is busy with office workers filling their cars and van drivers pumping in just enough fuel to get them through tomorrow. It is already dark, and the sulfurous lights cast a dull glow over the whole scene. Here, Christmas is cut price boxes of Quality Street and a two for one offer…

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Who is targetting who?

The reason for putting up this video is to show the citizens of this city the other side of the story as well. It is not just all black and white. I did not gather these clips, they were shown on all tv channels but sadly as always we only see one side of the…

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Antulay resigns because he dared to ask?

Although this will only add to the hate mail I get from across the border since I started sharing my thoughts on the Mumbai tragedy, I cannot help but express my utter disgust at the way Union Minister A R Antulay has been treated. If India wants to be accepted as a true democracy rather…

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Stocking stuffers

Winter 08 has arrived here in Karachi in its full and frigid fury. The roads are deserted after about 6pm and thats a big deal here, this city hardly sleeps..even in these times. With the winter however has arrived more bad news in the form of Opec leaders just announcing records production cuts to cause…

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Shoed off (update)

Gosh darnit is that the American flag, but I, but I thought we had shocked and awed them all. Well bubba, guess you were wrong eh? Lookit all the Airaqis waving those signs….don’t they look thankful? Pic credits Newyorktimes

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Virtual activism

Youth, the gears of a countries machine, the lifeblood of a nation’s body, the essence of which all great movements have been made of simply because youth means enthusiasm and energy- not even the sagacity of experience can replace that. However energy and enthusiasm are forces of nature which, when misplaced, can wreak as much…

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Shoed Off

This is for all the media people in the U.S who have been harping on about the great “rescue” that America has achieved in Iraq and how they have brought the Iraqi people towards a dawn of prosperity pretty much sums it up does it not? For the people who are still out there trying…

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