Author: Saki Nama
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Russia’s War
Russia attacked Ukraine in Feb 2022. It’s September 2022. Ukraine is yet to be conquered. Or defeated. How embarrassing is that for the not-so-red army? Let me rephrase. Russia has the biggest arsenal of A-Bombs. It spends around $70 billion annually on its military with active personnel of over 1 million and over 2 million…
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Restarting Swat
Swat was not undone. Nothing was undone. Ever. It was kept on snooze. For a better time to come. And it has come. Came. Come. Time. What did you expect when TTP was called for talks? Beat them. Ceasefire. Talk. Disagreements. Get beaten. Beat them. Ceasefire. Continue the drill soldier! In the name of budget…
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Queen
Her majesty is gone. Took too long. His Majesty has taken the throne.And you have His Highness all along. Everything rhymes these days. Cool. By the way, the actual hero who died in recent days was Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia who ruled from 1985 to 1991. He stopped the red bloodshed and made smooth transition…
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Tharki Fellows (on Facebook)
Dear Tharki Fellow Nationals! If a woman comments, she wants you to send her a friend request. If she doesn’t accept, DM her. Try your best and grab the attention. This is a substitute platform for Tinder. And Bumble. Women comment here for your attention. Give it to them without swiping right or left. Every…
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The New
GEO is the new ARY.ARY is the old GEO. IK has N’s old narrative. N has IK’s new curse. Inflation had classic reasoning before.Hyperinflation has modern logics now. Everything was upside down. Everything is downside up. There’s no change except of faces. There’s no exchange except of feces. Only two remained unhindered and intact: November…
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The Insignificant Other
چن کِتھاں گُزاری آئی رات وے مینڈھا جی دلیلاں دے وات وے Dearest! where did you spend the night? My heart may need proofs to calm down. Every rendition of this couplet is sad because the meaning is sad and the whole scenario is as dark as the night when reasoning is trying to hurt.…
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Rats in Floods
Ugly ducklings. Every politician is being a criminal here. Or a traitor. Whatever! Shaukat Tarin is a new rat. We know that. This rhymed. IK is playing the politics of jalsas even now. But he makes sure that the ramps are flooded so when he walks, a scene is there for the crowd to cherish…
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Tragedy
When you get to know that the previous tragedy was way better than this current one, then you realize… you realize that… nothing. Nothing matters. Except tragedies. There should be music. And dance. Yes, in tragedies. Feeling nostalgic about the ex-tragedy is a tragedy in itself. By the way, what’s not tragedy? You are a…
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The Eternal Nightmare of Being – II
Emotional meltdown. Disappointment. Disappointed. All kept under the carpet with a façade of all’s good. All’s not good. Not since… let’s say since the first rhyme in the right ear. The destination was defined. Step by step to catastrophe of self. To annihilation of the existence. Unbeing of being. Then there is this need to…
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The Eternal Nightmare of Being
No one can know what it is to be you.No one can know what it is to be me. To me.How hard is it? How bad? How tough? How rough? Can there be happiness? Eternal sunshine? Perpetual peace? Silence? We are defined by the choices we make. And the choices we let go. Both. I…