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Dreams

Tan Sar   Oct 30, 2007   interacts: 1

Even this rain…even this has changed. Even Mother Nature has started whoring around. Nothing is the same. Nothing New Jersey spits out can be like

The Tailor

Godot    Nov 3, 2004   interacts: 24

Shimmi and I were circling the city looking for an available tailor for Shimmi to have her clothes stitched.

Benazir’s Murder: Who Killed Her?

Karamatullah K Ghori   Dec 29, 2007   interacts: 27

Why wasn’t BB’s body post-mortem not carried out? It sounds so naïve and unconvincing that the post-mortem was dispensed with at the request of Asif

Calling Chanda

Anum Ali   Nov 5, 2007   interacts: 3

In her early twenties Haryalee, like Chanda, was a eunuch or more commonly known as the hirja or the third sex member of another hijra

Confessions of Webaholics

Zainub Razvi   Oct 5, 2007   interacts: 1

Has it been five hours since you’ve been watching movie clip after movie clip on You Tube? Or may be you were just randomly searching

First it was Bangladesh now it Baluchistan

Hussain Gadehi   Nov 27, 2007   interacts: 123

Baluchistan has a different history than Bangladesh, Bengalis were active for creation of Pakistan but Baloch weren’t part of Pakistan moment.

Thank You Suicide Bomber! No one is talking about my 1.5 Billion anymore!

Ahmer Muzammil   Oct 24, 2007   interacts: 180

Does anyone remember that this woman (Benazir Bhutto) facilitated a dictator(Pervez Musharraf) and gave him a new lease on his dwindling career for the price

Law of Necessity… A Logical Recourse

ijaz gul   Sep 30, 2007   interacts: 2


All military interventions in Pakistan have a distinction of getting legal/constitutional indemnity in two phases. First, the judiciary legalises the intervention...

Lithium

zuhair vazir   Dec 21, 2005   interacts: 8

“Well, they liked my character – said I was dripping with pomaded promise. Now all I drip with is SSRI residue.” Ali smiled again

Stone Walls and Metal Gates

storyteller    May 3, 2004   interacts: 20

Some nights she dreamt of flying through the darkness, over lands and seas until she stood in the balcony of her home. She would hear

Democracy, not terror, is the engine of political Islam

William Dalrymple   Sep 20, 2007   interacts: 256

Democracy is not the antidote to the Islamists the neocons once fondly believed it would be.

Goodbye Pinky

Rafi Aamer   Dec 28, 2007   interacts: 118

When she conspired with the Army and the establishment for the dismissal of Nawaz Sharif government in 1993, I got disillusioned with her leadership and

A Silent World

Tooba Shah   Oct 14, 2007   interacts: 0

There are bodies strewn as far as the eye can see. Are they amongst these dispersed corpses? No! I quell all such thoughts. To be

A Friend of Feudalism

William Dalrymple   Sep 4, 2007   interacts: 147

The very reasons that make the west love Benazir Bhutto are the same that leave many Pakistanis with second thoughts.

The Greatest Sin

Faris Kasim   Sep 28, 2007   interacts: 5

There is a premonition as Ahmed suddenly stands up and shouts, ‘I shall commit a sin, a sin like no other, a grave sin!’ Repeatedly.

Cholesterol Say Paak

Nadeem F Paracha   Nov 8, 2007   interacts: 129

I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of

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