My Summer of ’69

None of the TV channels in Pakistan have a loose real comical standard that they broadcast such news..All public/private tv news are tamed like our desi PTV and in my life I never heard any such news:

`` Both of us followed the news that night quite keenly and the prostitute story came into my knowledge courtesy of a TV channel. ``

They always wrap the news very nicely and such issues only get highlighted on newspapers..

Dear writer first take a grip on deep down neurological and logical roots of Pakistani culture then defame it through your pen then that would be a cutting edge..anyways nice attempt

But Mr Ahmad Hayat, I have two questions.

One, why didnt the baarra shopkeeper alert the post right outside baarra on jamrud road ? Why on Attock sixty five miles away ? And how did you know if you will cross Attock at all or when you will cross it ? I mean, the story doesnt say that you told the shopkeeper that you were from the Punjab...in fact your friend was pakhtoon.

Two, you say

``This Namak Mandi dinner is the sole reason of my being, as you would discover in a few lines space``

Perhaps I missed something, but how was the Namak Mandi dinner the sole reason for your being ? Because that meant you left Peshawar late and could murder conveniently at 2-00 a.m ???

Plz do explain.

I am really amazed at the stupidity of the chowk staff!!! how could they allow such crap to be published?

mr. ahmed hayat..you should have written the age range for the readers of this article..

15-18 yrs of age...sadly even you were older than that..when you did all these stupid things.


If you had sex with those girls you should remember it as a nice experience..you should not look down upon those girls now..they did not do anything more stupid or decadent than what you did..

try and understand that..and try giving women some respect...if you look at this world in such ugly way..you will become and remain ugly inside, the world is full of beautiful people and beutiful things....but people like you obsess on the negative stuff all the time..

one day you will grow up..if you were 22 when this happened..i hope it was not long time back..because if you have grown much older than that and yet have not grown up..god help you.

btw,..do you know those policemen, however obnoxious they might have looked to you..might have had kids waiting at home?...just like you will have..one day ..that is if you show enough respect to some woman so as to marry her!!

Very good piece. I particularly like the casualness and disdain with which it treats ridiculous concepts of capitalist ``morality``. I think murdering two policewalas is an excellent achievement if you can get away with it. Same for smoking charas and fornicating.

Mr Shore, in this land of the pure as in neighbouring unpure India, there is no dearth of people who are not homosexual i.e who do not, by first impulse, get drawn to men ``emotionally`` and ``sexually``, but who will gladly (or after a bit of convincing) have sex with men simply because females are unavailable. Then, if they carry on, most of them will get to like it.... because its actually not so bad. I mean, after all a man loving and (

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ing) a man is the only way a man can love his equal. (Yes i am saying men and women are unequal... not that one is better than the other....but different, unequal and not comparable).

Perhaps these people are bisexual.....i dont know. Many people think most men are bisexual but that

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for obvious reasons (society et al)

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their gay side never comes to the fore.

Perhaps Dr Khalid Sohail will shed light on this.

By the way, Mr Ahmad Hayat, I also like the way you write.

Pakistan Zindabad.

Shore Sahib:

Why are you getting so much suspicious of a valid identity that got unfair banning by the previous E.I.C and where was you when for half of the year I keep on beating to restore my real id...Didnt you follow my long line of protets of months which was duly supported by many authorized, reasonable chowk heads..
And the pathetic, absurd stance of Chowk Staff is an open illegal tampering of other people`s space of freedom...Isn`t it unjust..murdering of an id???

Anyways I should stop my mantra as its like: ``Bhains kay Agay Been Bajana`` ;)


I am amazed myself:

Ya Rub Zamana mujhay mita-ta hai kis liye?
Lauh-e-Jaha.n peh Hurf-e-Mukarar Nahi.n ho.n mai.n :((

By the way are you our very own Khamkhwa?

Re: # 11
Who are you, what have you done with Nadia Zehra?

or are you one of those Born Again Muslims.....

interesting read with no morality issue..looks hadn`t {ever}been in legal set of mind, your upbringing, your social sense of being and the company you owed..anyways most of it is the everyday story of most of Pakistanis who have no commitment with Pakistan and rationality or a cause..

May be in later part of your life when you will realize or come to realize then there would be guilty consequence that would surrender your feelings but since that time your kids and generation ahead of yours had also gone so far that you could only slumber your conscience in unconsciousness..

By the way the clever Khan Sahib who informed about yours in the next checkpost then the Khan Sahib might be having the info about your car, about you people, your finger prints so before making the news he could have made you arrested..Don`t think Pakistani Police a lost cause, they can find you when they want to???

Bravo!!!! Some one speaks the truth about the multifaceted life in LAND OF THE PURE.......

Good read although fraught with hillariously ridiculous assumptions.....

Pakistani girls lose their virginity for a lunch at KFC...........if so, Hey good for them. Better this way than to lose her virginity to a man of their parent`s choosing on the night of their marriage when he rapes her. This virginity is overvalued anyway......The girls have every right to own their own sexuality, their decision to engage in sex is but their own... why they cover themselves in Chadors is to save themselves from harrassment from sexually depraved men and to dodge judgement by the hypocritical morally righteous...

I wont even delve into the author`s treatment of homosexuality between Mohsin and Ajmal...They just liked to f**K each other, but werent homosexual.....wow!

some one is doing another Geeta Roy on Chowk -- my spirits soar when my bottom sore -- to -- my spirits soar when I murder more......:)

I`m shocked too-at the murder.What is a Jazz card anyway?

........ i miss ozer khalid !

i`m just too shocked!!!....

Re: # 4,

Hmm, for a moment I thought it should be Charlie, but hey wait, Charlie cannot be Ahmad Hayat, unless Ahmed Hayat himself is just a cover

Wait a sec, u are actually confessing to murder? BTW, I hope u are not Charlie.

Chowk has turned into a public toilet.Shameless bluntness is being heralded as pop culture and writing style.

“Baita, who Amreeka jaa kur kharab ho jayay ga.”

Typical third class mindset concept of the West or of ``Amreeka`` as if couple of dozen of pole dancers are waiting at the airports to receive every person setting foot on the ``land of the free``.
If you are trying to be funny giving the homo touch to your Pathan character you are only flaunting your racist nature and ignorance.
I sometimes wonder how people transfer their inferiority complexes or inner unfullfilled ``desires`` in the name of just being their true self.Look here i am completely naked before you and i`m not ashamed of it as i`m not a hypocrat like you.Lord have mercy on the English.Be prepared to receive another Hrundi Bakhshi (Peter sellers) ``The Party`` fame.

i m afraid there is nothing to be proud of in all what u did...infact its sumthing to be ashamed of!