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Friday Prayers- the last for some

By fzuberi • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

This was the news I recieved:
“… the militants, targeted a mosque inside an officers’ residential colony in Parade Lane, Rawalpindi Saddar, during Friday prayers in which Col. Kaleem Zuberi’s father Muhammed Ahmed Zuberi and his son Abdullah Zuberi have achieved martyrdom. Both were residing in the mosque when explosions took place.
Other martyors include 17 children, 10 civilians [...]



World Pneumonia Day

By fzuberi • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Misc

It is late in the month by now, but I know it’s NEVER too late.  The world finally gave the biggest killer of children, its own day on the 2nd of November 2009.

Considered the forgotten killer of children, Pneumonia kills approx. 3.5 million children(under the age of 5) every year.  These are the numbers given by [...]



Black Day …Indeed !

By fzuberi • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Features

In a session this Tuesday, the Punjab Assembly described Nov 3, 2007 as a ‘black day’ in the history of Pakistan.
Amazing isn’t it, that Nov, 3rd 2007 is a black day…but Oct 12 of ‘99 is …well not a colored day at all. Just a normal first time suspension by some nobody day. We don’t [...]



What is it that hurts us ?

By fzuberi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Misc

I don’t know…what makes us feel lonely…what makes us feel empty?

What makes us feel broken inside? What makes us cry out?
What makes us feel like dying? Or as if something has died inside us ?
I think that is what makes us feel hurt…
Sometimes it’s the things you remember of someone you really cared about, sometimes [...]



We Rule the World….Again

By fzuberi • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

In 1992; my people, my fellow countrymen saw a change a change that made them proud, a change that made them feel on top of the world. Newspapers carried headlines declaring, “WE RULE THE WORLD”, and we did !
Today, the World saw this again…We saw that change again…in the hearts of every Pakistani every cricket [...]



Democracy…?

By fzuberi • Apr 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Despair, grief, misery…this is what see around me…
Cheif justice, Long march, Nawaz dismissal…when that finishes a bomb explosion…then another…then an outrages video…that boils my blood everytime I see it…and then…another suicide explosion…then another…
Is this what our people worked, struggled, strived…& then sacrificed for?
Is this what we died for…?
When our people were massacred…like cattle…on the trains…on [...]



I become a snake

By fzuberi • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Sneaking n slithering through,
The sands of my past…
Leaving the anguish and anger
In the shape of prints
In the altering depressions of the sand
I often wonder…at the sad
Situation of my being…
I live for venom and kill
The very being I lived with…
But its only natural
as it’s in my un-warm blood
The Luke warm sunlight wets in me
The ways my [...]



Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims

By fzuberi • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT

Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on [...]



ISI cleared of Mumbai involvement

By fzuberi • Dec 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:13:35 GMT
The FBI has cleared Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of any
involvement in last month’s terror attack on India’s financial hub.
After interrogating the sole surviving gunman, The Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) concluded that the ISI was cleared of any
involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26, Pakistani
daily The Dawn quoted diplomatic [...]



The Bombay Incident…?

By fzuberi • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It makes me bitter…it makes me wanna bite…
is it not my country’s life…you’re talking about?
My friends, people, countrymen…we are at the threshold of patience with our leaders (so-called)…yet again…
A stage drama…let me re-phrase that…a bloody-stage drama…was pulled at a most convenient time…in our !ncredible ne!ghbour…time when the election is just months away…
When the [...]