You only live once, make the most of it!
It is now 6 Pm in Pakistan, a full hour after election day coming to a close. Till now there have been only some incidents of violence and alleged rigging. Many people have by now come on air and expressed the fact that they were more than satisfied by what they have witnessed, this includes…
After waking up at about 11am(its a holiday after all), i and my family proceeded after breakfast and a customary news glance to our local polling station. Our area is Sharfabad, the Halka NA 252 and the city Karachi. I was quite pleasantly shocked to witness total calm, the neighborhoods families were all walking to…
2 Days left to elections now!!! Where have i been you ask??? well i got the urge to suddenly jettison myself from this digital life and go work on something i have been meaning to for ages. I started a novelette. What is that you would ask? well its a book, but in an abridged…
Very soon the streets of my city will be lined with red. No no i speak not of blood people, they shall be lined with glass windows full of red hearts and chocolates and roses &Â god knows what else to celebrate that holiday of eternal love. The great and mushy Feb 14th, Valentines day….
Men are often referred to as “dirty rotten scoundrels” by the general population of desi women everywhere. They are torn apart for lying about the smallest of things, but expected to lie about their mates weight and beauty everyday. They are always blamed for having a one track mind but are castrated the moment, their…
Is 2008 going to be the worst year in Pakistan’s history? We had the riots and suicide bombings in Jan and now Feb has brought us the angel of death wearing a new guise, going “cluck” “cluck” A State of emergency has been declared, by the health authorities as H5N1 has been confirmed to be…
For the last six months or so, the once muted whispers of change have now raised themselves to a crescendo of voices. They all have but one goal, to make sure that our “Great Leader†goes for a long walk on a short pier as soon as possible. No I am not referring to the…
September the 10th 2007 730 Am on the flight back home (A work of pure fiction, any similarity in names is purely circumstantial, written in the linguistic skills of the character depicted) I look at watch, it 745am. The nakur lady forgot to wake me up. I scream for nakur lady other passenger get…
In the last week we have seen our security agencies, police as well as the armed forces involved in a full out frontal assault on the militants that scour our lands. They have not only taken back control of the beautiful Swat area, previously over run by zealots but have made some key arrests of…
Last week an interesting bit of news passed under my eyes. We as in the Pakistan nation have requested our brothers of the long robes to resume the oil credit facility given to us in their largess after Pakistan’s nuclear tests in the past. This was a time when sanctions were placed on us and…