Category: Pakistan

Even if you play devil’s advocate and try to defend it with all the ifs and buts and legal jargons, you know that was corruption. A massive one. With clear benefits for the people in the government of that time i.e. PTI. Otherwise, you don’t present an ex-agenda item in a closed envelope to be…

Let me re-write what I have been writing for the last 3 years on 31st December. Khalid Hosseini writes in ‘And the Mountains Echoed’, “Should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, ah, I wish I was not good to…

Lahore has its charm. Winter arrives at night and leaves at noon. Long nights with stars and planets above with a beautiful metropolitan below. Wide roads. Parks and trees – depending on where you wander or live; but yes. Smog came and disrupted the air we breathe. Then it went away. Every day getting better…

Even your husband shouldn’t be allowed to picture / record you during intimate moments. This is not just red line but far from red line. This is the first thing you must know about yourself and your self-respect. But as majority is comprised of idiots, so they do. They record such moments as just another…

You have all just become materialistic and worldly and consumer of the modern world. You have forgotten the great lessons. Remember tasawwuf. Spiritualism. Sufism. Mysticism or meditation in case Osho is your guy. Or anyone. Every faith has a name for it. The point is: you forgot the lessons. If you inhale the negative energy,…

Finally, he’s gone. Delayed riddance. Not just from his post of Chief Justice but also from the country. He’s the second person to trash the hopes of people across the country. He made an image of himself larger than life. Stood against authorities. Stood against the government. Delivered bold speeches in conferences. Qazi Faez Isa…

Strange are the ways of the world. Who could have thought this Chief Justice would hit rock bottom? Almost everything he said in his good old days, were overturned by himself in his chief days. Whatever he said at the lower echelon, turned 180-degree at the top echelon. But then, strange are the ways of…

“Who exposed them?” asks another one. Then another one. Then another one. And they all want to hear one name in answer. So that they can awe for long and sleep for another decade. Only those who never read history and had a short-term memory were inspired by this neo-exposition done indirectly for vested interests.…

Gandhi said, “poverty is the worst form of violence.” This could have been one of the finest sayings of all times, but we don’t ponder over it because poverty doesn’t concern us. Or at least that poverty which we see in heartbreaking reels and pictures and in faraway lands to shed some crocodile tears. Some…