This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany in to one country. World leaders are congratulating the German nation on this achievement and noting how this reunification has produced an even more powerful country which continues to grow stronger, despite originally East Germany lagging [...]
Not again! As if there were already not enough troubles in the country, what with the floods and savage lynching of two brothers in Sialkot, we get the cricket too. An investigation by The News of the World paper alleges that it paid £150,000 to a middle man, Mazhar Majeed, for arranging to ‘fix’ a [...]
The current monsoon rains have brought devastation on a massive scale to Pakistan. In this time of crisis the President, Asif Ali Zardari, is nowhere to be found in the country. He is in Europe, bestriding the great capitals of Paris and London supposedly dealing with Pakistan’s foreign affairs. To say that this visit given [...]
With all whom have plundered
In all those moments,
Drawn and extended,
Find you will me with him now,
Together we will build this house,
From principles of justice and humanity
And to those who remain distant
Do we need?
The Prime Minister House
The President’s palace
The great old parliament
The Muppets of our bureaucracy
The old feudal lords,
And the thousands acres
The old hands of dictators
And the warmth of lies
From the leaders of our present
Do we need?
The ruins of our existence
From one crisis to another
In the land enriched in its soil
From the fertile plains of Indus
To [...]
Long time ago, witnessed we all
Humans caught up in a trap
In self inflated egos and pride
Hearts fearful and defeated
Shackled were their thoughts
And shackled were they all
In the name of fame and greed
With words of anger and hate
The humans and its existence
Remember I once long time ago
Where we sat in corners of ambiguity
Remember I once long [...]
Nothing remained in view
Of those draconian measures
Here he rests
The old nightingale
In its peace and grave,
From the descendants
Of an old tribe and its code
The old settlers, at the outskirts
Through years of travel
The poet, in mausoleum of words
The old Pushtu poet
Carried in his words,
The echoes of peace and music
The Old Sufi
Carried in his soul,
The echoes of unity and humility
From the old rivers to [...]
To achieve your own dreams it takes a lifetime but to achieve the dream of millions, it’s a feat only a few can perform in the history of mankind. And Jinnah was one of them. And to achieve that one has to rise above the fear and display courage. The ability and skills which he [...]
