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Just who is Mangal Bagh Afridi a khurram agency bus driver turned religious zealot? Or a savvy implant by the ISI into this troubled sector to bring about a liberation of the locals from the foreign Taliban. According to noted history Mangal bagh came into being when Mufti Munir Shakir who had established a radio…
Balancing a guitar, the coke bottle, and themselves… … trying not to trip over the rocks, trying to steady nature to suit their unsteadiness. “yeh shaam phir nahin aai gi…â€, voices lilted, wobbled, and carried in the wind, fading out slowing over the moonlit ocean. The waves splashed the rocks gently, and the fine mist…
The massive Hadron Collider experiment is about to start on the swiss-french border on wenesday. This giant particle accelarator will in effect have its first full beam on this day, its function to smash particles into one another which will tell us perhaps how it all started and solve some more mysteries of science. However…
Everything is in boxes. It’s not that I’m packing up to leave; I’m packing up to stay. Stay sane, that is.  The boxes I am referring to are, of course, my emotions. One box for my husband, and another, smaller, box for Owen. And the most puzzling thing is – they are entirely separate….
As a species we are rampant in our commercialization of everything from going out, to what we wear to what we use to communicate. Everything in our lives is commercial and consumable. Still it is a bit funny to see that even aspects like prayer are now being put to the acid marketing test by…
Each country in this world has its unique quirks in its inhabitants, culture, music, food etc. In this series of photographs I will try to exhibit a little of Pakistan’s quirky & funny side through pictures.
Now that 5 Fasts have passed and I am still here, that is my nicotine addled brain has caught up with the rest of my body I can now pick up my pen again and start what I like best, to write. The 6th of Sept is a pretty important day for Pakistan. We will…
The Kokoda trail in the hilly slopes north of Port Moresby, the Papua New Guinea capital has just acquired a new reason to be famous. This was the area where in World War II Australian troops fought with the incoming Japanese invaders that wanted to use Port Moresby as a bridge head for the attack…
Five women have been buried alive in Balochistan merely because they married as per their own choice instead of following age old tribal law and traditions. This barbaric act has surfaced only after intense media reporting and for once there is wide scale condemnation of a tradition which has existed for decades but intrinsically reeks…