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16 Dec. 1971: Dredging Debt

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Dec 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A warning …to the people…a…reminder to the good and evil…this is debt..to the solider ..the civilian  ..the martyr…and  the victim..this is debt…a warning to the prophet..the liar and the honest, this is debt, to the leader to the pariah to the victor ..to messiah ..this is debt..For few there are few dates, there are few [...]



Pale Pure Plan

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Nov 11th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

What’s this all fuss about? Whom all these people are chanting for? To find the answer take a little walk to the edge of the town; go across the tracks, where viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks, pass the squares, pass the bridges, pass the streets, pass the stacks [...]



Dhaka Fall - Fire Still Burns

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Dec 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Some memories don’t just consume, few moments have no farewell after so long there is no blood no alibi, yet each time when bell rings on the wall, it sparks again, and it ignites from the ashes of times, turns into a fire, a fire which still burns, because the fire always [...]



Live a lie

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Features

I am writing this article on late Friday night or one can say early Saturday morning, It was all bright and shinny here in Karachi, right from early morning, apart of newspaper and few extra security personals on the roads every thing was as “beautiful” and “normal” as ever, the break fast, the ride to [...]



Edges of a Broken Dream

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Oct 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Dreams are part of our all out fantasy land, they often contain significant information for us, putting light on what has happened in our lives , or what is happening and providing insights about our future, some dreams when crushed hard by some reality become even strong enough to start haunting you more then your [...]



Red Rain.

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: Features

Peshawar was in state of shocking fear and extreme trepidation; I was thinking is this the fatal doom of the people of Pakistan or some thing we chose for ourselves? but didn’t had much time to continue further with the thought process because another more ferocious reality struck my senses, that GHQ was attacked, I [...]



Quetta Shura - another figment of imagination.

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Features

The myth of Quetta shura has been on a verge of its hype in the horizon of Pakistan U.S relations yet again, previously it was Karzai in 2006 who was claiming it and now “master” himself has shown same alarming concerns, U.S is looking beyond Afghanistan for the reasons and excuses for her massive strategic [...]