Asif tests positive yet again

Muhammad Asif the hope of Pakistan’s bowling attack which turned dope when he tested positive for banned substances a year ago has yet again tested positive for taking banned substances. I speak of Asif’s much awaited B sample which has shown traces of the same drug that he was charged with taking. Surprisingly Asif is…

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I Have Felt The Warm Goodbye Of The Sun

I’ve washed and drank in God’s tears of joy As the crimson firmament surrounds my reality. Entire, all powerful, outstretching and inviting Seducing me as no other bride In death her silky hair confides, takes new beauty and destroys The salt of her tears is everywhere, I can still hear her As I die peacefully…

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Storms

There will be storms tonight. I pull on my jacket and hurry up the garden to pick the beans for tea. Already the wind is grasping at the plants, tugging them away from the safe anchor of their pots. Above, the sky is leaden and empty; the birds gone home to roost. Back in the…

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People’s Demand #1

Hey guys, yeh you who are now in power? There is no one left to blame your shortcomings on anymore. So lets have it? The demand of the entire population of this country now is to bring back the original judiciary. Wonder how long they will take to achieve this one? Oh and by the…

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“I am also human” – President Pervaiz Musharraf

The phone beeps – *Mushy’s being impeached..go put on geo..NOW*… Frantic flicking through channels, not knowing what to expect, and there sits Musharraf giving his last address. And after a while of listening to how,In the calmest possible tone, he points out, sector by sector, things have improved… how in each area, we drastically rose…

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A New Chapter

It is not often in this country that an individual who seized power by a coup resigns and leaves his post voluntarily. Even under immense pressure by the impending impeachment the general could have chosen to fight it out and while doing so dragged Pakistan’s name through some more ill needed muck and shame. That…

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The last roar?

The Great General, Mr Commando, is going to speak to the nation at 1pm today in about an hour and a half.  Everyone seems to be abuzz with the news that he is going to resign.  Seems that a  Saudi private jet is standing at chaklala to take him away to a life of safety…

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Hajj woes

As cries of impeach and safe passage resound in the air for our Great General, & our political glitterati come on the media to proclaim the sensitivity of this time for our nation it is interesting to note what is going on in the assemblies. The provincial assembly of Punjab in its last session ground…

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