2020-09-16 14:16
There is an association of water with spirituality just as there is with material progress. In both comparisons, the water stands out as a bridge between the known and the unknown worlds. Fo… Read More
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2020-08-16 08:26
Since the time immemorial, each and every aspect of the Indus Valley Civilization, the place where I was born, has fascinated me. I have always wondered how could such a massive ancient civi… Read More
2020-04-05 23:02
“Poor girl never saw any (vast) territory before,People were unkind to her, anarchy had prevailed,And she befriended Jats for what, endless torment!”- Shah Abdul LatifIn this mun… Read More
2020-03-28 22:23
WHO WAS WATAYO FAKIR?IntroductionWatayo Fakir is a popular character from Sindh region of Pakistan. He is often portrayed as a Sufi beggar who has a strong opinion about myriad aspects of li… Read More
2020-01-04 16:23
At times, life becomes unbearable and there arises the need to escape from the mundane pursuits which continue ceaselessly at constant pace and unbreakable chain. There is, however, a hope i… Read More
2019-10-31 18:47
It’s been awhile since I can’t breathe. Life continues but I don’t see you. You have taken so long. I have survived only marginally. 'Not so soon!' I keep delaying the end… Read More
2019-09-14 18:08
Few days ago, I had visited Marriott Hotel, Karachi, in order to attend a workshop related to my field. At first floor, I saw a picture or painting of a nomad with his camel. It, somehow, tr… Read More
2019-09-09 13:19
It’s been awhile since I can’t breathe. Life continues but I don’t see you. You have taken so long. I have survived only marginally. ‘Not so soon!’ I keep escap… Read More
2019-08-13 03:47
Ever since the dawn of humankind, we have battled against the time to preserve the same old melody: life. This life has become ever more interesting since acquiring consciousness and self-aw… Read More
2019-06-19 19:42
At times nature conspires me to be intimate with historical places and forts. The ultra fascination and utmost curiosity cause to take a step further. It all takes me back to the old times w… Read More
2019-05-23 05:20
There are thousands of temples located in Sindh, Pakistan. Many are even older than the age of the country. I cannot write about all because it would take a lifetime and plenty of resources… Read More
2018-11-29 20:54
It is said that in the late Middle Ages, West witnessed the revolution of science and technology. On the other hand, in those days and since the beginning of human civilizations, east has re… Read More
2018-11-26 18:27
It was still the time of swords and arrows in Sindh when 18th century had just entered into its second decade. At that time, Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro, ruler of Kalhora dynasty, Sindh, decid… Read More
2018-11-11 15:48
Pir Patho is the place about 25 km from Thatta city, the medieval capital of Sindh, Pakistan. This whole area comes within the Indus River Delta region. People usually visit the Thatta… Read More
2018-08-19 22:03
I once visited a place which has taken firm roots in my heart. Its uniqueness, freshness, and diversity have made a lasting impression upon my mind. The white sand when receives a tiny bit o… Read More
2018-07-20 23:04
Umerkot Fort, Sindh, PakistanUmerkot is a historic town of Sindh, Pakistan. Here, Hindus and Muslims live to gather in the same neighborhood. They live in harmony and peace. This old town ha… Read More
2018-04-04 12:19
The darkness merged with brightness when life vaporized in the flames of one eternal memory. The world vanished when I heard the sound so serene, soothing, and soft. The air in the surroundi… Read More
2018-01-20 10:16
INTRODUCTION TO HUNZA VALLEYOnce during the colonial rule, a famous British writer visited the Hunza valley. Mr. James Hilton stayed there for sometime before publishing his best seller &ldq&hell…Read More
2018-01-07 00:49
Sometimes the heart melts like a candle when I realize that our country, Pakistan, need so much to work upon. Our region is not supposed to be safe. Here, many souls were deprived of their b… Read More
2017-12-27 18:35
The land of Sindh is mostly covered with carpet of fertile plains and barren deserts. Here, the Sufis spent some moments of privacy and meditated secretly. Here, the old river Indus flows th… Read More
2017-12-03 17:03
Located nearly three and half thousand meters above sea level, there is a flat grassy land near the base camp of Nanga Parbat, world’s ninth highest mountain. It is situated at the wes… Read More
2017-10-31 21:48
STREET TOWARDS ALTIT FORTUnlike the road to Baltit Fort which goes vertically upward towards the hill top, the road to Altit fort is fairly straight and of different appeal all together. It… Read More
2017-10-31 20:34
IntroductionThere is a lake somewhere in the extreme north of Pakistan around the edges of Karakoram Mountains. It’s about nine miles east of Karimabad or Baltit town, Hunza valley. Th… Read More
2017-10-31 20:33
INTRODUCTIONBaltit Fort is the most famous tourist attraction in the Hunza Valley. It is one of the most decorated and well equipped historical sites I have ever seen. Though many ancient si… Read More
2017-10-31 20:32
On our last day at Hunza Valley, the hotel management arranged a bonfire gathering for us. Many of their staff members joined outside in a small park owned by the hotel. It was about 9:00 pm… Read More
2017-10-31 20:32
Karimabad/Baltit TownIn the beautiful Hunza valley, we reached the Karimabad area. It is also known as Baltit town. This place won the World Award for tourism in 2000 where countries like In… Read More
2017-10-31 20:31
IntroductionOnce during the colonial rule, a famous British writer visited the Hunza valley. Mr. James Hilton stayed there for sometime before publishing his best seller “the Lost Hori… Read More
2017-10-31 15:16
A Beautiful & Peaceful ValleyThe Hunza Valley is that place in the world which best describes the word “beautiful.” It’s so beautiful that one can feel like being insid… Read More
2017-07-30 15:26
Up in the mountains, in the mightiest Himalayan and Karakoram ranges, under the shadows of Nanga Parbat, the place of extreme tragedies and disasters, where height becomes infinite and light… Read More
2017-06-24 09:07
Zunior Zulfiqar Bhutto's interview for Tumeric project at US might bring a complimentary smile or two among the liberal minded secular women rights activists or simplified modernist feminist… Read More
2017-06-02 19:05
Shadows of incompetence are darkening my soul. Feelings of inability are drowning me. My thoughts are eating me like bugs which eat an abandoned piece of wood. It’s a slow death; it mi… Read More
2017-05-31 23:30
The land of Sindh is mostly covered with carpet of fertile plains and barren deserts. Here, the old river Indus flows and finally merges in the ocean. The river keeps its shape due to suppor… Read More
2017-05-17 10:50
In the fragrance of a dying flower, in the shadows of autumn trees, in the darkness of space, in the burning of stars, and inside an innocent heart, is love overload. In sleepless nights, in… Read More
2017-04-02 13:02
In the rhythmic heart beats, in the whistling of breathe, in the melody of nature, in the deep state of calm, in the utmost chaos, in the pull of gravity, in the motion of winds, in the fall… Read More
2017-03-28 19:26
The man who died recently at Hazrat Shah Aqeeq’s Shrine at Thatta was known to me as Mr. Wahiyo Mir Jat. I have this odd feeling when I call him “Mr” because no one gave hi… Read More
2017-02-26 21:48
I believe no one will agree to what I am about to write as there is no real evidence to support my claim. So what? How much do we know about the early human history? What information have we… Read More
2017-02-26 05:02
Surrendering for sake of salvation but serving for sake of sensations, neither completely merging in the water nor fully burning in the fire. Swimming in the ocean, flying in the air, diving… Read More
2017-02-13 16:28
Candles are dimming and brightening on their own after words have started taking shape in the form of writing. Fingers are beginning to hug the pen after words have vanished from mind and si… Read More
2017-02-13 16:27
Near the bank of Indus there lived a girl as cold as winter snow and as warm as sunlight. Her smile resembled the beauty of nature and was clearly the masterpiece of mighty, the… Read More
2017-02-13 16:27
One of the earliest memories of my life was when I was a child, barely able to walk, and had lost the link with my parents in the busiest city of Karachi, Pakistan. I ended up being in the a… Read More
2017-02-13 16:27
In this world so complex are implications so severe of being some person known as me. From earth to sky, from sky to galaxies, from galaxies to quasars, and beyond are thoughts of that perso… Read More
2016-12-03 04:40
INTRODUCTIONIn spaceship of time, I travel as back as life takes me, exploring the lost chapters of my life. This exhausting journey starts from Golarchi, a small town of Pakistan’s lo… Read More
2016-11-15 18:43
Brilliance of brightness, dullness of darkness, shades of shadows, treachery of treacherous, and loyalty of the lover, in each and every part of nature, in each and every page of story, in e… Read More
2016-09-14 15:37
About two hundred years ago, a fierce battle was fought between Talpur Emirs of Sindh and soldiers of British East India Company at Miani. Sindh was breathing its last as an independent stat… Read More
2016-09-13 08:14
Somewhere around the lower Sindh region of Pakistan, there is a small town by the name of Khorwah. It is so small a town that it doesn’t even appear on the map. But if you want to find… Read More
2016-08-28 11:49
In life there will be moments of success and failure, happiness and sadness, and life will go on like this till its end. I too have had some moments when I felt happy and moments when I just… Read More
2016-07-18 12:00
Without mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, and wives, and unachieved love, and achieved ever growing one, there is no taste in this world, no flavor, no mercy, no calmness, no comfor… Read More
2016-07-17 19:50
Without mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, and wives, and unachieved love, and achieved ever growing one, there is no taste in this world, no flavor, no mercy, no calmness, no comfor… Read More
2016-07-11 19:26
As I breathe, walk and live in this world, Pakistan’s backward region of lower Sindh, I remain an existence full of conflicting desires and their less apparent manifestation. Being a M… Read More
2016-07-10 22:00
As I breathe, walk and live in this world, Pakistan’s backward region of lower Sindh, I remain an existence full of conflicting desires and their less apparent manifestation. Being a M… Read More
2016-06-12 02:50
Covered in layers upon layers of sins, surrounded by tons of tons of dirt in the heart, buried under the burden of devil and my own selfish desires, with inability to become a good person, t… Read More
2016-05-30 13:41
If you ask me which person catches the core of my imagination, I would say my “Great-Great-Grandfather.” I wish to be present at his time and witness his later part of life. I of… Read More
2016-04-29 18:49
In my silence, in unspoken words, in hidden gazes, in stolen smiles, in shy endeavors, and in melting efforts, is you. For all the wrong reasons, there is a person in me who remembers you in… Read More
2016-04-29 04:49
Thatta is a city of Lower Sindh located some 100 km east of provincial capital Karachi, Pakistan. It is about one and half hour drive from my home town. It is one of the oldest cities in the… Read More
2016-04-27 05:49
The place where I stand is the beginning of Kirthar Mountain range which spread as far as 190 miles, sometimes rising as high as seven thousand feet above sea level. In the lap of this range… Read More
2016-04-13 00:43
He gives them rope enough, and they wander on and on blindly in their mischief and rebellion. ( Al Baqarah 8-20)Their condition may be described... A man kindled a fire and when it illuminat… Read More
2016-04-12 10:54
AL BAQARAH (2)Say, “Take Allah’s color, and who can give a better color than Allah? Therefore, we worship and submit to Him alone.” (Al Baqrah, 138)Try to excel one another… Read More
2016-01-01 18:36
Once upon a time, people saw a young man struggling but climbing the peak of the tallest mountain. The journey was torturous but he was resilient. He was climbing without ropes or any other… Read More
2015-12-27 13:56
It's a dream! It’s a silly dream to stand under the night sky with dark clouds hovering over my head and not even a faint light appears in the gloom. And then, all of a sudden, there e… Read More
2015-12-21 09:54
Unlike Malaysia, Indonesia, or the Caribbean, Pakistan is a country not known for too many islands. However, there is one significant Island under our territorial range in the northern tip o… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
It’s Eid-ul-Fitr today. After the end of Ramadan, people are enjoying the Eid festival. Since morning, I have been receiving lots of Eid wishes. For me, it’s a double excitement… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Waves upon waves and I am swimming in the ocean, still surviving. Layers upon layers and I am buried in the clay, still breathing. Pressure upon pressure and I am in the air, still flying. I… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Love is like landing on the surface of Sun in hope to find the polar ice. Love is like staying in the sunshine and asking for a heavy rainfall. Love is like plucking the flower and wanting i… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
At times I can hear so clearly the whispering of my inner voice. At times, heart resonate peaceful motion of my own world. At times, chaos merges into silence and sky wear that dark dress an… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
The storm and calmness never go juxtapose each other but in my case it is a simple reality. Perhaps, it is more than a simple reality, it is an irreversible accomplishment. And so, sleep is… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
The spontaneous pulsations make an ideal vehicle on which mind travels towards the deepest corners of heart. Excited mind perceives as if it is in the plane faster than likely ever imagined… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Silence corresponds best with the voices of my unheard heart. Loneliness laughs well at the memory of my hopeful mind. And this dark night suggests that my thoughts will come and go in mind… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Shadows of incompetence are darkening my soul. Feelings of inability are drowning me. My thoughts are eating me like bugs which eat an abandoned piece of wood. It’s a slow death; it mi… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
They think, they think, and they eventually stop thinking. They take a deep breath and close their eyes. Even though feelings of volcanic eruptions occupy their hearts, instead of burning wi… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
“Clear Water Below, Lotus Float On ShoreOn Arrival of Spring, Keenjhar smells Sweetest”(Shah Abdul Latif)Indus River spends its age of infancy in the courtyard of world… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
The instrument of heart is being played by the hands of beloved. The Instrument is unknown but the heart is inclined to the rhythmic sounds of nature. Beloved is unseen but that existence is… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
It is an ocean that has no water in it. It is a desert that has no sand in it. Its color resembles the land of Antarctica, but its heat resembles the desert of Sahara. Its one end meets the… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
When heart breaks and splits into million pieces; when stars begin to burn and keep burning; when sky dims its light and wears that dark dress; when flower is brutally plucked and dies for i… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Few days ago, I met my ex- colleagues of British Petroleum Company. We met at one of our friend’s marriage ceremony. While I was sitting with them, I realized that their life was more… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
In the fragrance of a dying flower, on the surface of a dark star, under the shadow of an autumn tree, and inside an innocent heart, is the love overload. In sleepless nights, in unending ef… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Enclosed within a drop of rain, I fell upon a flower and fell in love with her. She was the most beautiful flower I had ever seen. Her freshness, fragrance, color, and softness took away my… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Out of millions of moments which I have witnessed in my life so far, I can see that tiny split of the second which in mysterious ways has whispered something significant to me. Rapid success… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
The place where I stand is the beginning of Kirthar Mountain range which spread as far as 190 miles, sometimes rising as high as seven thousand feet above sea level. In the lap of this range… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
The spirit within is in close proximity to them. Whether it is brightening or dimming depends upon the distance. In the world so annoying, I seek that smile from the undiscovered and unappar… Read More
2015-11-01 06:41
Don’t know why, but mind is extremely volatile in nature. It is like a fire which spread thousands of miles over the longest and thickest forests on earth. Don’t know why, but in… Read More
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