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The Ugly Empire

Haroon Moghul   Sep 16, 2003   interacts: 5

Over the last year, I’ve become colder, harder, more indifferent to other people, and though sometimes it’s nice to brush everyone and everything off, it

Sexual Harassment in Karachi: Whose Fault?

Corina Carrumba   Apr 7, 2005   interacts: 113

I have virtually no rights living as a woman in Karachi, Pakistan. There is no law protecting me – only them. Predominant in the Pakistani

September 11, One Year Later

Isfandyar Khan   Sep 12, 2002   interacts: 62

Usage of the American flag is an act of aggression.

Basant 2002

Rozaiba    Feb 13, 2004   interacts: 46

As the policeman began to walk toward his pick-up, the writer blurted out, ’Basant Mubarak!’

Accented: I Became a Linguistic Chameleon

Aruna Rangarajan   Nov 23, 2005   interacts: 8

Indian people noticed and mocked different Indian accents in English, without realizing that their own English was extremely accented too.

Last Kiss

Hussain Burhani   Jan 15, 2001   interacts: 54

frozen in time as life goes by

Home, a state of mind?

Sidra Omer   Dec 13, 2007   interacts: 2

Home is not necessarily a four-walled structure that has traces of one’s childhood days and it certainly does not represent the country or city one

Various Poems

Aamir Ansari   Jun 10, 2003   interacts: 35

even onions fall in love

Drama over the Karakurams

Nazar Khan   May 25, 2004   interacts: 51

As I looked inside the cockpit, I got a rude shock. My fuel gauge was reading only 1800 liters. There had been a sudden and

The Ghost of Urdu

Zafar Anjum   Sep 1, 2003   interacts: 29

The truth is today’s market of languages, Urdu is a loser. People would rather learn French and Chinese and what not, guided by their economic

Mullah Pat Robertson’s Fatwa

Fazeel Chauhan   Aug 26, 2005   interacts: 60

Bulleh Shah, save me from the Mullah
Mullah’s selling religion for green Moolah
Government loots my paycheck and calls it taxes
Mullah steals my zakaat “for God’s Sake”


The Missing Girls

Ritu Mathur   Dec 14, 2005   interacts: 14

Are we heading towards warped, daughterless families as the prototype of Indian society?

Thoughts, Anger & other poems

raghav chopra   Jul 25, 2004   interacts: 18

I am free.
But should I,
be?

A Tribute To Heritage Of Poonch

Zafar Choudhary   Oct 24, 2006   interacts: 4

It may sound little ludicrous that had there not been this building in the decade of 1930s, the geopolitical shape of this region would have

Starting from the End

Ali Hashmi   Mar 16, 2008   interacts: 16

Wapda and the ministry of power have implemented an emergency load shedding plan to plug the gap between electricity supply and demand leading to more

London Targeted: Numbers Game

Temporal    Jul 7, 2005   interacts: 160

today’s mourning
in the wake of
yesterday’s jubilation
and the futility of
fragmenting one
into us and them




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