Ladies who lunch

Walking back to my car I am a crazy welter of anger, amusement, and being down right glad I’m me. Quote of the afternoon: “£180? That’s two thirds of a pair of shoes!” What f-ing planet are these women on, for goodness’ sake?   OK, let me go back to the beginning. One of the…

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Lawson steps in it

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4gvq-zKmSY] After the Karachi loss to India in the Asia cup, Shoaib Malik chose not to face the media.  Pakistan’s coach Lawson did and proceeded to insult the entire bunch of journos present with his opening speech in which he remarked “please do not make statements but ask questions” after a reporter asked him something,…

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Bushism’s Part 7

The last time i wrote Bushisms, someone smsed me to say this cannot be real, so for proofs sake the second bushism in this edition has a video attached via link. “And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means…

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Bandar Ya Sikandar

The only thing certain about today’s world is that it is in an ever changing flux of events and anything can happen at any moment. To put it simply it is totally uncertain. We are born in this world in the most excruciating of events, there are bright lights, hands pull you out and you…

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Aagahi Jun-Jul 2008

The Jun-July edition of Aagahi has been published with “The News” today. Please click on the graphic or above text to read it online. I would appreciate any feedback to help make it better. Kindly click HERE for feedback.

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Beaten but elated!!

Tee Off time as the openers of Pakistan play like turtles Its about 1am and i have just managed to get back home after going through the experience of a live Ind Vs Pak match right here in Karachi.  As the meticulous planner in me went nuts from last night i spent the entire day…

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The result of democracy

As a trader dealing in different commodities and areas of textile machinery i sometimes am privy to a lot of information that perhaps escapes the general public on a day to day basis. As far as i can see our economy is in shambles, worse than our political woes are the fears of a total…

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Old Trafford

She is glad not to walk up the steps to the media box alone, but from her demeanour you could never tell. They met at Manchester Piccadilly, in the bookshop. They spent ages there, but he couldn’t find anything sufficiently highbrow to bother parting with his hard won cash. His intellect scares her a bit,…

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A Woman’s Fallacy

Written by Ramla Akhtar The problem is that women all over the world, and in the society that I know most – my own – are brought up under this oft intangible belief that they are lesser beings, created for the sole purpose of scrificing and pleasing others around them. If they don’t have a…

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Dysfunctional State?

Democracy was achieved in the Fatherland after February elections. It has however been hobbled by problems. Total  confusion still reigns as the government consists of a hotch potch of three political parties united for the sake of forming the government only, while totally different in their ideologies which makes for a weak center and thus…

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