Category: Pakistan

Remember how he died in the end? Do you see how unlucky he was? You know he never found peace? Such are the words of losers. Those who can’t do anything, hence they pity the one who should be hated. Power is when you are alive. It matters till death. With medals and meals. Uniform…

If I must choose between Buzdar and Maryam… wait – It means I’m the Chief then. The chosen one. Above all the 240 million insects. To deliver the divine message to les misérables. Must be starving. I’ll choose Nando’s.

With all the disagreements and criticisms you have with AIML or Jinnah – some valid – there is one core aspect of history that we forget and miss out conveniently. Yes, I know about Lahore Resolution of 1940 and how it was ‘states’ and not ‘state’ and the word ‘Pakistan’ wasn’t even mentioned in the…

You: May your soul rest in peace, sir. Jinnah: It won’t. You: Sir? Jinnah: You people have failed the dream. You: Yes, we have. Jinnah: This country was not made to experiment with radicalism, be it religious or non-religious. It was not made to experiment with different forms of dictatorships and martial laws. I told…

Every day has been a new short story in Lahore’s monsoon. July has been blessed and seduced to an extent that it has been wet for over two weeks now. It’s evening in noon. Again. Other times, it’s dark days and thundering nights. Last night’s drive in the rain was scary to hell, but it…

War has made both sides bonkers. It’s not as clean for your side as you think. And it’s not as ugly for the other side as you mock. But yes, it ended with Pakistan on top. And that’s how you rhyme in war. I was reading Mehdi Hasan’s “Win Every Argument” when the war broke…

“If you have problems with this country, then leave this country.” “It’s easy to bark from outside. Come back and then talk about this country.” —– “He has brought his children to the country. See, he is raising the next generation to rule us.” “He hasn’t brought his children to the country because he knows…

A hungry man robs. You don’t like it, but you do understand it. A threatened person lies. You don’t like it, but you do understand it. A deprived woman steals food. You don’t like it, but you understand it. A poor child takes someone’s toy home. You don’t like it, but you do understand it.…

Aurat March is foreign-funded. Mahrang Baloch is foreign-funded. PTM is foreign-funded. BYC is foreign-funded. Liberals are foreign-funded. Ahmadis are foreign-funded. Dawn is foreign-funded. Edhi was foreign-funded. Asma Jahangir was foreign-funded. Sabeen was foreign-funded. Parween was foreign-funded. Herald was foreign-funded. Our pimping-wars were US-funded – from making Talibans to killing Talibans to reviving Talibans to apologizing…