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Late Sitting is not Equal to Late Working

By Muskan Hina • Mar 21st, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

It’s half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on…
PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing…
And who’s at work? Most of them??? Take a closer look…
All or most specimens are ??
Something male species of the human race…
Look closer… again all or most of them are bachelors…
And why are they sitting late? Working [...]



Charbailee Fire: Sinner or No Sinner?

By Muskan Hina • Mar 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

In many parts of Balochistan and interior Sindh, there is an ancient tradition of Charbailee or Churbaili. Whenever someone is accused of some crime or bad deed, he or she is asked to walk bare-footed on burning coals. If he or she successfully walks over live fire, that person is considered innocent, otherwise he or [...]



UK Plundering Pakistani Students in the name of Education

By Muskan Hina • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The East India Company has reincarnated. This time they even havenh’t bothered to come there themselves to squeeze the life out of the golden sparrows, rather they have created a virtual aura of their so-called colleges and universities that the Pakistani students are getting attracted towards them, gaining nothing but loosing money and going through [...]



Target Killing in Karachi

By Muskan Hina • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Features

We have become tired of hearing from the authorities that Karachi is the lifeblood of Pakistan and its peace will be maintained at every cost, but the thing is that still at large scale, the Karachi target killing is going on at full throttle unabated.
MQM says that land mafia and drug mafia is behind these [...]



Blindness in Pakistan

By Muskan Hina • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Misc

One thing is pretty much clear that the prevention and control of blindness is not the topmost priority of the goverment among other health issues. It seems that there is no health ministry in Pakistan or if there is any, then there is no impact of that on the national horizon and the blindness is [...]



Karachi Land Mafia

By Muskan Hina • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Whenever riots erupt in Karachi, all the factions blame that to the Land Mafia. The Karachiites wonder as who exactly this land mafia is. This faceless monster is so powerful that nobody knows about it and nobody has ever seen it and yet it wrecks havoc in the city after every two weeks.
All of a [...]



Best New Year Resolution for the Pakistanis

By Muskan Hina • Jan 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistanis just turned a page to a new decade. After witnessing the most terrifying, bloodiest and dark decade since independence, this new year of a new decade brings a new hope and new chance to rethink and redevise our identity, our preferences and above all rediscovery of ourselves.
We need to resolve that we will become [...]



Baba Farid Gunj Shakar and Paradise Door

By Muskan Hina • Dec 14th, 2009 • Category: Features

The history of Indo-Pak subcontinent is incomplete without the mention of Muslims saints in different parts and if you visit any city or town of India or Pakistan, you would surely encounter some shrine of saint. There are some saints who are very famous among the people, and Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar is one of [...]



Pakistan Climate Change

By Muskan Hina • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Features

World has gathered in Copenhagen to brood over the disastrous climate change in the world. While Taliban kill Pakistanis and we in Pakistan are uncertain about our survival, the world is worrying about it’s own survival and pro-actively trying to come up with measures to contain the emission of carbon dioxide.
Developing countries are also worried [...]



We Still Have the Lever of Our Fate

By Muskan Hina • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

I am pretty much sure that as a nation we have become adept at missing the chances and we are always at the issues with callousness and we always take the matters non seriously. It is not that I am one of those pessimists who are tempted to bash at the mother Pakistan, but the [...]