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 ‘Pakistan’ Category
10 Sep
Defence Day!
Everyone around Pakistan have been celebrating Defence Day! Friends posting messages on Facebook, and sending smses that we fought like lions and tigers and won the war with a few tanks and fewer fighter jets! True! No one can deny the bravery and the imaan of those soldiers in those days. Today, I don’t know.
The [...]
15 Aug
The Idea of Pakistan
Earlier this year, one of the departments of Karachi University arranged a conference on Iqbal. Having done my Masters thesis in the same area, we (me and my friends) were asked to write papers for that conference. Though the pressure of the second masters and time restrictions, we were able to write those papers but [...]
20 Jun
Bhar De Jholi
The President of Pakistan…
The only thing that comes to my mind while watching any news regarding him on TV- specially when he’s out of country having ‘important’ meetings around the world.. begging for aid, is;
bhar de jhooli meri ya….
wonder when he’d stop begging and I still wonder where that money would go… Ever wondered where [...]
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 [...]
13 Jun
Kab Raat Sahar Hogi
I watched the TV screen… horror struck!
All I remembered was Faiz’s words…
“Kab rukay ka dard aye dil, kab raat sahar hogi”
8 Jun
Nostalgia
Walking on the beach last night, the stillness of the sea, the wavelessness and calmness took me back to the time when we used to live in the city by the Red Sea. The same smell… the peculiar smell of the waveless sea, brought back so many memories. The receded shore in the summers was [...]
4 Jun
Visiting Kuwait
It feels the same… but I can sense the difference. The last time I was in the middle east was like eleven years ago. Now I am back in the same area but in a different country but there’s this same kind of feeling around here – the middle-east feeling.
Now, sitting in my brother’s apartment, [...]
27 May
There Are Signs
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Last September, a bomb blast rocked the city of Islamabad- the target was Marriot Hotel. There were many stories regarding the whole blast and the most famous were that of American Embassy being invloved in the whole affair. Though the authorities wanted people to think otherwise…
Today, the target was Lahore Rescue building. So many [...]
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