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Papu fails yet again in Pakistan Affairs paper

By Ayaz Kolachi • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Cable:2
Subject: declassified
Subject: Papu fails yet again in Pakistan Affairs paper.
Summary.
Papu was desperate to win high scores in his respective papers that year.He knew his genius had a milk run with academic ups and downs.But he was prepared this time to silence his critics with his big scores.But bad luck never seemed to [...]



Papu Papers from Wikileaks

By Ayaz Kolachi • Jun 28th, 2011 • Category: Lead Story

Papu never felt easy with questions and answers session in class.He would do everything to hide himself like a ostrich in the sand.But as he began to age into maturity,he became aware of the importance of the boring but effective questions that are necessary to be raised if ever one wants to know the truth.So papu found it imperative to engage one of his teachers to know what was exactly going on and how best could he grasp the truth.So fatigued did papu feel with the milieu of his times that he was now desperate to know what men of brain had to say about the devastation that was all around him and his country.So here is an excerpt from the conversation session recorded between papu and his teacher.



A Letter From the Grave

By Ayaz Kolachi • Jun 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

By Muhammad Ali Jinnah
My Dear country Men
asslam-o alaikum
Although as a believing muslim i started off with the conventional text of greeting just aforementioned.But iam saddened by the fact that the meaning of this expression has lost it’s feel on pakistan and I (quaid-e- azam) continue to recoil in my rosy grave showered with mere bouquets [...]



Now is the Time

By Kathay Kalame • Jun 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A corrupt government and a people that are its beneficiary is a destructive combination.
For the same reason that corrupt rulers become blind to the consequences of their actions, a people hooked on cutting corners, cannot see the destruction beyond the tiny benefits that a corrupt system avails them. From settling personal vendettas to scoring ill [...]



The Homs Syndrome

By Ayaz Kolachi • May 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Are they cut off from the reality is one of the most troubling questions that has popped up as a sign of interjection for every one who is interested in Pakistan and it’s future.
Economist in it’s 23rd May issue notes the plight of Syria where incessant protests have rocked the Syrian boat and have [...]



It’s the Chair That Wins

By Ayaz Kolachi • Feb 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics

We have coined many terms and sculptured our lingo the way we desire to be identified.One of these terms that braindrains most of us every second minute of our day is “NOSTALGIA”.To tailor a simple defination,its the love to lurk in past and think as though what is bygone had a unique aura that can’t [...]



Injustice is Injustice

By Rai Azlan • Dec 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

I am in a different place but still there are many things that have not changed. However, I have to accept that there are many positive things I have experienced and seen here that impressed me. I still love my own country as much as I used to before coming here. Nevertheless, there are many [...]



Iqbal wasn’t selfish but we are

By Rai Azlan • Nov 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It has been a freezing cold day and I was sitting in bank to see my personal banker. A boy came and sat beside me and got busy in filling some forms. “What is the date today?” a question-oriented voice hit my listening senses. I replied its November 9th. Boy suddenly responded, “Hay its Iqbal [...]



DamNs

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 2nd, 2010 • Category: Features

Water flowing over or water at the dead level; we either get lot of rains or we don’t get them at all. In a country like ours’ where a big resource of power generation is through the reserved water from dams the necessity for construction of more dams heightens even more when the consumption of [...]



From UK with Love

By Rai Azlan • Jul 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features

Saeeda Warsi visited Pakistan, and this has been the big news since July 16 that the chairperson of Conservative party who is Pakistani by origin has visited Pakistan met some top people and visited many places including her hometown. I think it will be better if I say the hometown of her Father. Anyways, this [...]