A certain hospital in Karachi comes under the City District Government Authority. The Hospital had been having some problems since the current political party got hold of it several years ago.
Recently, there have been major incidents in the hospital which have not been reported on any television, as that would mean a bad name to [...]
Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
13 Dec
Can You Guess The Name?
26 Nov
The News
So you switch on the television and you stare at the screen, you frown and you listen to the same people everyday, telling you the same thing every day on every channel. Everyday. The same talkshows, talking about the same NRO, Kerry Lugar Bill and the same debate whether BlackWater is in Pakistan or not. [...]
6 Nov
The Fort
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 [...]
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 [...]
18 Dec
Wataniyyat
I don’t think I have to say anything. Reminds me of my teacher saying, “Husn bazaat-e-khud daleel hai.” It speaks for itself.
Wataniyyat
(yani watan bahesiyyat eik siyasi tasawwur k)
Is daur mein mae aur hai, jaam aur hai jum aur
Saaqi nay bina ki rawish-e-lutf wa sitam aur
Muslim ne bhi tabeer kiya apna haram aur
tehzeeb kay aazar ne [...]
16 Dec
Where do I stand?
“16th December! Did you hear any bell ringing?”
“Who? Me? What?!”
I tried really hard to answer the question but I really couldn’t recall anything. And I kept thinking…
“Suqoot-e-Dhaka!”
And I was dumbfounded! How could I forget? How can I not recall!? Everything went blurred… Am I so self obsessed and self absorbed and have turned into those [...]
3 Dec
Nisaar Mein Teri Galiyon ke…
The recent violence in Karachi reminded me of this poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz…
Nisar mein teri galiyon ke…
Nisar mein teri galyion ke aye watan ke jahan
chali hai rasm keh koi na sar utha kay chalay
jo koi chahnay wala tawaf ko niklay
nazar chura kay chalay, jism-o-jaan bacha kay chalay
hai ahl-e-dil kay liye ab yeh nazm-e-bast-o-kushaad
ke sang-e-wakhast [...]
6 Jul
Mera ik ik Sipahi hai Khyber Shikan…
Whose war are we fighting?
TO whom are we proudly showing our strength?!
Whose shoes are we licking?!
Maybe too many questions. But the answers are always ambiguous. The masters changed. The confused are becoming more confused. What system is this where justice is not there. And I’m not talking about the lawyers and judge’s movement. If there’s no center [...]
7 Apr
Time to Wake Up…
“Aziz admits energy policy was flawed”
http://dawn.com/2008/04/06/top12.htm
“Ministry sees new taxes as only way out of crises”
http://dawn.com/2008/04/06/top7.htm
I wonder what happened to the foreign reserves that the Mush and Shauki government used to brag about. When the economy is booming and country is progressing that by day, why over tax the already overtaxed population?! I wonder how much [...]
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 [...]
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