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Dubai Incorporated - Part 2

Compared to Dubai, everyone else seems dull and boring. Yet dull they are not (Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia).

Dubai Incorporated

Those who have a stake in Dubai, employment and/or an apartment are the most argumentative. They want reassurance that one day soon things will be same as before with the exception of high rents.

War of Words : Swat Military Campaign

In times of war, governments create lexicon of new words to justify the war and to make it more palatable.

Cantonment in Swat : Wrong Solution

I believe the solution to the Swat problem is much simpler and less costly: well trained and well armed Police, functioning courts and elimination of status of Swat as Tribal Area

Hitched Hikers Guide

I never aspired for such superficial goals. Being mature beyond my age, I always dreamt of being a Groom (Dulha).

I thick therefore I am

I wanted to show off my intellect by writing a piece on current situation of Pakistan but decided against it.

Four Wheel Dreams

How many friends should one have? A friend of mine used to say, as many as you can fit in one car.

Book Dropper

Nicholas Nassim Taleb says there are two ways to look at your bookshelf. The books you have read and consider yourself well read or...

Stopping the Clock

The young Julius Caesar talks about Alexander the Great who at his age had conquered half the world and what has he (Caesar) achieved. This made me wonder what I have to show for my thirty years of life?

Home is where the heart is

I remember an episode of Boston Legal where when Alan Shore is feeling schizophrenic, a psychiatrist asks him where does he live. He says in a hotel. I was mildy surprised.

To Have Loved and Lost

I learnt to distinguish between sincere and leering eyes of men, jealous and envious looks of women, how to notice small changes in women’s body, demeanor and how to interpret it

If Pigs Could Fly

When proceeding to the check in counter, I always increased or decreased my pace so that I get a chance to stand next to a lady in the queue. Though I have been successful in this feat but then again, fate had something else stored for me.

Value of a Citizen

What sets apart London or Britishers for that matter is respect for citizens. In Pakistan, only the lives of politicians, feudals, army officers and visiting foreigners (from western Europe or USA) has any value

Finding My Feet in London

In Pakistan, when someone did not go straight home from work, it was assumed that he was having trouble with his wife, mother or kids. In London, nobody goes home directly; we have pubs

Cell Phone Blues

Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society”. In today’s society, anyone without a cell phone is naked.

Need for Career Counselling

Most local students are pushed into Engineering or Medicine by their parents/society without recognizing whether the kids have an aptitude for it

The Spell of Winter

poem on winter

Days of Yore

These cyber cafes and personal computers are rarely used for any education (unless you count sex and appreciation of opposite sex as education)

The Writing on the Wall

information is a luxury that the country cannot afford

Mass Transit

Takes 10 years away from your face

Musalman: The Moviegoer’s Nightmare

Why can’t Sana change her clothes in the privacy of her room?

Oppression of women in Pakistan: Myth or Fact

...scientifically women have a very advantageous position.

Ibrahim M Khalil

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