On March 24, 2008 the Police Head Constable Ali Hassan Solangi was just leaving the mosque at Malik Petrol Pump located in the jurisdiction of Hattari Police Station Hyderabad, when he was intercepted by four men (identified as Noor Muhammad Shoro, Deedar Shoro and two men from Brohee tribe whom Ali Hassan can recognize on [...]
What a week we have had so far. First there were hooligans who interrupted the provincial assembly session, the next day they attacked the former chief minister of Sind (I personally think that man deserved even more but the venue – Sind Assembly – was not appropriate). If that was not all, lawyers beat the [...]
Few Saudis take the cake for being the weirdest of people. Take this new item for example. A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping. For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of [...]
According to a news item, The Vatican is in talks with the KSA authorities for its 4 million migrant worker catholic population who have no place of worship right now
The Vatican has been holding secret talks with the Saudi Arabian authorities on building churches in Muhammad’s homeland, according to one of Pope Benedict’s most senior [...]
Even before the assemblies started their session and their members took oath, they have started using their strong arm tactics. For instance, 53 people, including some sex workers were arrested from a house in F-10, Islamabad, where according to police, the owner was running an illegal gambling den, bar and brothel. One of the arrestees [...]
Another women’s day had passed. I was invited to four different events that day, but I chose the one organized by Goethe Institute and Oxford University Press. It was the launch of a book that was the effort of young Pakistani writers. A year ago, young writers’ competition was launched, 600 stories were submitted and [...]
Pakistan always has the dubious distinction of being a country where intolerance is rampant, but this incident takes the cake. In what was possibly the first incident of its kind in the history of the legislative assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, an opposition lawmaker Muhammed Tahir Khokar of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was [...]
Let me confess, I did not particularly like Juno.
I may be the only person on the planet who is not totally bowled over either by the film or Ellen Page in this particular film (those who rate her highly after watching Juno should watch Hard Candy – she is so good, she will scare the [...]
Someone I went to college with read some posts at my blog and wrote back to me saying that I should write fiction. Honestly, for a minute, I was taken aback (I thought she was praising me and that id) and started fantasizing about being called the Pakistani version of Dave Barry (I know, I [...]
I know I am a certified cynic and am generally pissed when grown up people (who in my opinion should grow out of their rose tinted glasses at the ripe old age of present a hopeful picture of a future that none of us will see in our lifetimes. Waisay tau I have grievances [...]
