I have been busy with other things lately and didn’t get a chance to either dwell into the politics of Pakistan for some time. But something happened last night which has forced me to write something down here. And the very image burns in my mind and has an unsettling effect on me. The future [...]
Archive for the ‘media’ Category
17 Jun
A Joke…
Let me quote a joke here that was quite famous when we were kids. So here it goes…
There’s this very beautiful African deer and then it gets lost. So the policeforce of every country is called out to help. So the every police force brings forward a deer and the authorities say that it’s not [...]
5 Apr
About the recent footage…
Something that me and my friends have been wondering since the day it happened…
Article by Javed Chaudhry says it all:
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100595873&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20090405
And the following article exposes the flaws of the video… Listen to it from the expert’s mouth;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100596216&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20090406
2 Apr
Campus Security
On Monday, following a clash between two student political groups, Silver Jubilee gate was closed as always. The staff, students or the teachers, who come via their own cars use other gates to get out of the premises as a rule. But a professor from the applied Chemistry department tried going out from the Silver [...]
11 Mar
Friends?!
Pakistanis have recently started showing overwhelming interest in forming bonds of friendship with India. They have been struggling in every possible way to be a part of their circles. We have seen co-productions of movies and soaps as a gesture to confirm my above statement. Not only that, the recent event of setting Iqbal Singh [...]
31 Dec
Confused…
Cheema is hilarious. I’m talking about the press conference that he had saying that Benazir Bhutto was killed by the lever of the sun roof of her Land Cruiser. Either he himself has gone mad or thinks that we are crazy to believe him.
Another press conference that was entertaining was the one held by PPP. [...]
17 Dec
Religion, Culture and Literature…
I smsed my brother asking if he has “The Prince” and he replied in affirmation. I texted back saying,”I’ll be highly obliged if you can bring it”. He later commented that my “highly obliged” reflected the mentality of a slave. And I replied, “As if taking a degree in English is not a reflection enough !”
A [...]
13 Dec
Maintaining the Standards
I stopped reading the papers after huge incidences that happened after Eid-ul-Fitr and the great Emergency. I guess I was trying to shut out the ramblings of the politicians and the army-men. Anyway, during my exams while I was having breakfast one fine Monday morning and was not in the mood of studying, I took [...]
2 Nov
1984 and the Contemporary World
We did 1984 by George Orwell this Semester. And since exams are around the corner, me and my friends were trying to discuss some of it’s aspects. And since we have it in our Literature and Society Course, the teacher gave us the whole historical perspective of World Wars and the Communist Russia, Lenin, Stalin, [...]
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