The closed wooden doors

By Amna Saleem Oh, but a Scandalous subject. I am glad it will hold the readers’ attention till the next few lines at least and perhaps…only till then. For it is natural for a regular man to be engrossed to know possibly all that is behind (and then there are some who are eager to…

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Outside the Window

by Amna Saleem 6:30pm. The clock in the tower chimed. I felt the coldness of the night as the sun descended. I said good-bye to him at the gate, outside my house. He was in a rush; he’d suddenly remembered he had a train to catch- missing it, he feared, would be an unbearable pain…

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Are we raising Pussies or Men?

What is it about this everyday routine life that makes me get up in the morning? Has serendipity blessed me or has it stricken me with the virus? Not the virus that plagues me like a 24 hours HIV but the virus of honestly being addicted to a lifestyle and the idea that the everyday…

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A letter to our allied cricket nations

Eight years and so ago, Pakistan was a relatively peaceful place to hold a cricket match.  Yes there were always the odd security fears but they were over shadowed by the fact that the grounds were full of cricket mad fans and lets face it even though the night life was not all that kool…

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Democracy on vacation

We all sang odes to it, we all thought it was gonna save this country but in fact the following is what democracy has given us in the last 100 days. Yeh sure some of these problems are world wide and some of them are not the direct result of democracy but hell they are…

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Visit to the nerve centre

  The mood at the club is exceptionally upbeat: despite a poor start to the season, somehow we have managed to struggle through to the Twenty20 quarterfinals. Of course, there’s a long way to go, but the overall feeling of resignation has blossomed into real hope.   So it’s a good time to start on…

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Repudiation

Just for the record, the Adebayor article was a post.  The link for goal.com was provided with the picture of Adebayor on the article, if anyone cared to click on it.  But so nice of you folks to jump the gun and cast judgment. cheers!

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Cut for Arts

Three years ago there were only two countries in our region without an academy for the promotion of performing arts, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2005 the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) happily put an end to this misery in our neck of the woods at least. To put it simply, NAPA represents an…

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It begins?

I was pretty much minding my business doing closing at my shop today when a bearded figure walked in greeted me and slapped the following down on the counter, he then nodded gave me the once over in a pretty stern manner and walked out. Needless to say upon reading the said pamphlet i was…

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