“The album had been tucked away, in the left corner of the drawer, among folds of satin and velvet. I took it out and looked at it for the umpteenth time this year, my heart thudding constantly in fear. I smiled achingly at the six children sitting by the Mediterranean Sea, their skinny knees showing [...]
It’s high time one finds Noah to build an ark, if not for the Punjabis then surely for the Lahoris. For this year round, Lahore is the hub-bub of burgeoning calamity. What with the rampant dengue fever and the gas inflammation, it seems like Lahore has yet another Hurricane Katrina on the way; one, which [...]
I have a lot of catching up to do. Just a few days back, my perfect world was penetrated by the stratum of political toil raging between Pakistan and the United States; a fact that until recently was unknown to my brain due to my own negligence.
I must admit it wasn’t easy to give up [...]
“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. [...]
