Some four months ago in a discussion when the word “nation” was used extensively in a statement that would hardly make four lines or five if written, I was stopped and asked to define the word I was using so enthusiastically. Obviously out of my limited knowledge I put forward the definition I could produce [...]
We did saw a big hype since created in the media that how very swiftly Musharraf may be arrested on his arrival….but this did not happen. The stooges of PPP and PML (N) who were once assisted in their reincarnation in Pakistan through NRO; how come they may show their cheeks to come up with [...]
One way of destroying a person’s ambition, career, dreams, and hopes, is to inflict them with magic that makes a person lose interest in their education. There are many students in Pakistan who “suddenly” don’t feel like studying anymore, without realizing the cause of this “suddenly.” They want to study but can’t. They can’t focus. [...]
“He stood first in every exam but failed in one, driving test”, the hall fell into laughter and he continued with saying, “when he came back home he said that now I know how people feel when they fail, anyhow I am a theoretical physicist not a practical one”. These were the words of [...]
Black magic having taken hold of Pakistan is nothing new, and it has progressed to the point where it is now being done on people by their own family members. And sorry to say, the majority of people involved in it are women, and many do it on their husbands.
Taweezat, amaliyat, and all kinds of [...]
The country that was once referred to by Joe Biden during the 2008 US Presidential campaign as a ‘dangerous’ state, Pakistan has been fighting back such undeserving allegations.
In the foreign media, the portrayal of Pakistan has been anything but pleasant. There is plenty to buttress their feeling that the country is indeed sinking into a [...]
Once again, this year I was in Oxford to take part in the Pakistan Future Leaders’ Conference (PFLC 2013) organized by Oxford University Pakistan Society. It was my third trip to my favorite city in England for the same purpose. Just like past, this year’s trip was full of heated debates, networking with some new [...]
The first thing that comes to mind is, when Christians don’t celebrate our festivals why do we celebrate theirs? In fact, many westerners don’t even know about Ramadan or Eid, but when it comes to Muslims, we are champions at adopting their culture, their traditions, their festivals, their way of dressing, their way of talking, [...]
It is perhaps one of the impossible things that in today’s world when you have a massive online presence, you never heard the word “blog”. Blog is a tool that started its journey as record keeping method of daily logs on the web.
Now it has become a powerful tool for communicating our views, and [...]
Pakistan is a place that always loves to keep a spot in the news and mostly not for good reasons same goes with the Pakistanis either living in it or carrying the name of the country around the globe. I can still remember when my professor at University of West of England asked me “Rai [...]
