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It is half a century ago, a six year old boy, holding the hand of a young woman, my mother, I was walking towards my maternal grandfather's villag… Read More
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2019-05-06 11:16
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a free open air art exhibition of works by major UK and international artists. It sprawls over 500 acres in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England… Read More
2017-04-14 10:46
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2016-03-31 17:10
Recent religiously motivated protests across Pakistan made visible a new breed of mostly bearded protestors who knowingly or unknowingly were caught on camera using the filthiest possible la… Read More
2016-03-30 18:48
Cowardly terrorist atrocity on Easter Sunday evening of 2016 at a children park Gulshan-e-Iqbal Allama Iqbal Town in Lahore left over 70 children, women and men dead and scores injured.
A c… Read More
2016-03-30 16:23
Cowardly terrorist atrocity On Easter Sunday evening of 2016 at children park Gulsha-e-Iqbal Allam Iqbal Town in Lahore left over 70 children, women and men dead and score injured.
A candle… Read More
2016-03-27 11:04
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Junaid Jamshed might be a misogynistic moron and many of his vi… Read More
2016-03-26 10:35
A photo diary of a beautiful walk down the Marple Locks. Sixteen locks raise the canal by 209 feet over the course of about a mile. Right next to Marple Town centre this is a gem of a place… Read More
2015-06-26 15:06
A recent report on state of education in Pakistan titled “25 Million Broken Promises” highlights that there are currently 25 million boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 16 w… Read More
2015-06-17 10:18
According to reports Muslims in the UK donated over 100 million to charities last Ramadan. This was a conservative estimate that did not include donations to local mosques, private charity a… Read More
2015-02-01 20:52
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has issued a ban on a range of baby names because they are deemed to be against the Kingdom's cultural, religious and moral codes. Names banned include forei… Read More
2015-02-01 20:44
A very organised campaign on murdering medical doctors is being carried out in Karachi Pakistan. Majority of the murdered doctors belong to Shia minority who have been and are a target of et… Read More
2014-12-20 15:15
Lest we forget: we were given (not forced) money to breed snakes. When the money ran out, we continued to feed and breed the snakes thinking it will only bite whoever we ask it to bite.
Sna… Read More
2014-12-16 11:21
What is a bigger tragedy: Brutal massacre of 126 school children and their teachers, or that the nation of 200 million immediately pointing fingers at Arabs, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Indians, and oth… Read More
2014-07-05 11:59
Found these verses on Palestinian peace so very haunting:
“To Alef, the letterthat begins the alphabetsof both Arabic and Hebrew-two Semitic languages,sisters for centuries.May w… Read More
2014-06-30 20:12
According to reports Muslims in the UK donated over 100 million to charities last Ramadan. This was a conservative estimate that did not include donations to local mosques, private charity a… Read More
2013-11-03 21:18
Malala Yousufzai and Taliban - two faces of Pakistan
Not many personalities have divided Pakistan the way Malala Yousufzai has managed to do in her young life. Not many books have sparked s… Read More
2013-10-22 21:40
I recently had the pleasure of flying from UK to Islamabad on Pakistan International Airlines. After over twenty five years of flying experience with almost every airline worth flying with (… Read More
2013-09-17 15:58
One of the most beautiful love poems ever...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the… Read More
2013-09-10 11:05
Pakistani community in Manchester is bidding farewell to Mr. Ehsan Ullah Batth, the intellectual diplomat. Having spent three and half years in Manchester Mr. Ehsan Ullah Batth is due to tak… Read More
2013-08-25 14:32
قتل چھپتے تھے کبھي سنگ کي ديوار ک… Read More
2013-08-18 10:17
A heart warming poem from Allama Mohammad Iqbal. A messages that "Liberal' thinkers in Pakistan today would like to be forgotten.
یہ غازی ی… Read More
2013-08-17 17:47
Falling standards of Urudu language used in the media, especially the satellite television channels, in Pakistan makes me think how long this almost five hundred years old language can survi… Read More
2013-08-17 14:50
گئے دنوں کا سراغ لے کر کدھر سے آیا… Read More
2013-08-17 14:33
سو بار چمن مہکا سو بار بہار آئی
دن… Read More
2013-08-15 10:54
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2013-08-13 15:20
Muhammad Tariq Waseem is a former Chief Economist of Punjab Industrial Development Board.
There is not a single
instance, example or precedent in the economic history of the… Read More
2013-05-18 16:52
There are those in Pakistan who are asking president Zardari to resign - grow up, he was elected by your representatives for five years.
There are those who are angry at MQM winning a… Read More
2012-11-15 14:36
In Gaza, children,
you learn that the sky kills
and that houses hurt.
You learn that your blanket is smoke
and breakfast is dirt.
You learn that cars do somersaults
clothes turn red,
frien… Read More
2012-10-12 07:49
Some pictures that I took on a recent visit to Venice Read More
2012-09-08 09:39
For some time there has been a debate in Pakistan whether the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be a free tolerant and secular (note: secular doesn't eq… Read More
2012-07-01 16:31
Loved this Chinese take on Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Hadi Ruswa - also credited as the first novel in Urdu language. I am sure anyone who has seen the Bollywood film production is going t… Read More
2012-06-23 10:24
I just watched a short but shocking report by Aljazeera television highlighting the plight of 6900 contemporary languages that are under threat and might disappear in the next 90 years. It w… Read More
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