It saddens and pains me greatly how the media is able to control our minds. As every other Pakistani, I also find myself in this recent ‘Taliban fight-for-survival’ war. I have had enough of this ‘Taliban’ swirling in the air around me to know I can’t sit like this; not until I have had my [...]
“The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry nor inter-dine together, and indeed they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions.”
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man of honor, the man of our dreams who brought this country and this nation [...]
On political leaders what hopes can we fix?
They are wedded to dust, in the dust play their tricks,
Their gaze always fastened on maggots and flies,
A web like the spider’s their ladder to rise.
That caravan’s happy whose chief is endowed
With thoughts high as angels’, and temper as proud.
Hope is kindled by belief. Belief is a [...]
Just like so many other days, 5th February is here. But, 5th February is not just ‘another one of those ordinary days’. It is a day of remembrance, of raising our voices against the massacre ranging in Kashmir since 64 years. Yet, the purpose, the spirit for which this day came into being has been [...]
Sitting alone in the dark waiting for electricity to come, my mind turned towards one of the most pressing problems on hand (at least as far as I’m concerned it is worth giving a thought to!). For a month or so, there has been a big hub-bub about the Mumbai attacks. And it seems a [...]
Ever since the Creation of Pakistan, a need for an ally was one that was deeply felt. Pakistan, suffering from the loss of her leader and founder, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was still teetering on dangerous grounds. India was yet again to be seen happily contemplating the moment when Pakistan would take a tumble or [...]
This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has made our life a living heaven- and yet not.
Computers, mobile phones and many other transitory advancements have opened doors for another: the most [...]
Stench seeps out from the very core of the camps. Inhabited by 160, 000 people, the place is a picture of a small despicable and dilapidated colony. The word ‘slums’ does no proper justice to it. Tightly packed with flea-infested surroundings, the whole area is best by severe over-crowding, poor sanitation and lack basic facilities. [...]
“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit [...]
It’s not one of the last tumultuous and intricate problems that are in the bag for the Pakistani Nation. Foes and foreign forces are accumulating in the adjoining countries as well as the far away ones like America and Israel; whose recent eagle-eye is fixed upon one of the most lonesome state in this world: [...]
