Dreams
Tan Sar Oct 30, 2007 interacts: 1Even 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: 24Shimmi 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: 27Why 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: 3In 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: 1Has 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: 123Baluchistan 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: 180Does 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: 20Some 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: 256Democracy is not the antidote to the Islamists the neocons once fondly believed it would be.
Goodbye Pinky
Rafi Aamer Dec 28, 2007 interacts: 118When 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: 0There 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: 147The 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: 5There 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


