“The trouble with weather forecasting in Pakistan is that it’s right too often for us - to ignore it and wrong too often for us - to rely on it.”
I woke up early on Saturday morning (10: am to meet few of multiple tasks including my visit to a bank. The weather was cloudy, [...]
Where people once roamed free, the markets were crowded, businesses thrived and life seemed untroubled – Islamabad may never be the same again, so believe the residents. Such are the security concerns that police, paramilitary Rangers, guns and pickets are now the significant features of a town that was known for its peace and quiet.
Gone [...]
How many apples were eaten at the Garden of Eden? ‘Eleven’ came the reply with this breakdown: Eve ATE and Adam TOO, and Satan WON.
Adam ate the fruit of the forbidden tree and was taken to task by Allah, the Almighty. He excused himself by shifting the blame from his own shoulder to that of [...]
People call me insane. They may be right because a person who tries to cling to the virtues of good and detests evil is not welcome in any society especially in ours. People call me moron may be because I cannot speak anything but the truth. I don’t feel twinge. I don’t feel isolated as [...]
One day a father of a well-heeled family took his son on a trip to the country-side with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. Both father and son spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor and underprivileged family.
On [...]
Just over two and half decade past, I came into this world in capital city of Islamabad. Since many years after I took my senses, greenery, cleanliness and serenity were the pet words used to describe my birthplace. Unfortunately, I have lost these complimentary words and my childhood simultaneously. With the restructuring of the roads [...]
Punishment is supposed to be for the protection of society, and for the reformation of the wrongdoer. It purports to protect society by preventing the same criminals from repeating their crimes, and by acting as a deterrent to other prospective criminals. Capital punishment is a notorious failure in such respects. It does indeed remove removes [...]
Assalamu Alaikum… Wa-Alaikumus-Salam…I am halted. Can I see your driving license or registration documents? Yes sir .. please sure, you can. I put my hand in rare pocket of my trousers, takes out my wallet with a bit of fiddling with my eyes costantly glazing on the hands of that man in a faded uniform. [...]
We are on the road to nowhere as Jean Jacques Rousseau says in the Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”. One thinks himself the master of others and still remains a greater slave than they. We are not at all free, it is just intended we should be. The [...]
· I would have talked less and listened more.
· I would have invited all my friends over to dinner even if the carpet was filthy and the sofa set faded.
· I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather and my maternal grandfather ramble about their youth.
· I would have sat in the [...]
