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Tissue Papers

By Talal Hussain Malik • Oct 30th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A word about tissue papers. What a product! Now, tissue papers are available in different colours, size and quality. There are scented and unscented, available in sachets, roll packs and the regular one. Depending upon the quality there are soft and rough ones. But whatever be the size, colour or quality of the tissue papers [...]



Euphoria

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Fiction. Euphoria is the story of a neglected child who grows up a wasted youth. An incident in the village makes him flee. On his journey he experiences life as it is and returns homes several years later entirely a different man.
‘PLUTTT..’ went the pebble in water as Baboo stared at [...]



Classification of the Human Beings

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

I would classify human beings into four categories. The first kind is of the people who see, hear and speak. People that fall under second category see and hear but they don’t speak, though they are not dumb. The people of third kind see and speak but they don’t hear, though they are not deaf. [...]



Hush the Barking Dog

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

‘BARKING dogs seldom bite’, but seldom they do bite. A sane person would never suggest taking a risk, so better take precautionary measures while you come across a barking dog.
History speaks of the plight that the allies and friends of the US of A have met. The USA has been directly and indirectly forwarding threats [...]



Time to Act, Mr. President

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A joke goes that a suicide bomber was going to hit his target. Just when he reached there he pushed the button of the bomb attached to his vest. The bomb did not blast because of some manufacturing fault but due to shock and a sense of being torn into pieces the suicide bomber fainted. [...]



The Clever Crow

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

As a kid we all have heard or read the story of the clever crow. Syana Kawwa. Here is the same story in a bit different perspective.
It was a hot summer day, a very hot summer day. A crow left the forest for the city in the morning looking for food. Times had changed a [...]



Ridiculing the Poets

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

FREE SMS packages as offered by some mobile phone companies have their consequences. Our nation seems to have a great sense of humour and even more is its ability to forward such messages. Messages containing jokes ridiculing Sadar ji and Pathan are now a common place, now a new way of making others laugh has [...]



Musharaf’s Swan Song

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

SINCE its independence 61 years ago, our nation has erred; it has erred a lot and has continuously been punished as well. We did mistakes that we didn’t learn from; consequently we were gripped by the shackles of evils like dictatorship. Thus, it has mostly been a One Man Show where the poor audience was [...]



Frailty, thy name is..

By Talal Hussain Malik • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The government recently celebrated its 100 days and much hullabaloo was created by the government itself declaring this period to be very successful. The way it was proclaimed a successful period forces me to quote (yet again) from Goebbels, “the greater the lie the more convincing it would appear.”
Seems like the government under PPP chanting [...]



Enemy at the Gates

By Talal Hussain Malik • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Bertrand Russell, the great philosopher, in his essay ‘The Future of Mankind’ mentioned the possibility of a unification of the world under a single government, possessing a monopoly of all the major weapons of war. Today we can assume that we are heading almost towards the same end. He talks about one world government which [...]