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Aunty shaadi kara day gi
I am turning 26 next month. I see how aunties look at me at weddings and mehndis. Even for a guy, I seem on the tail end of the perfect shaadi age bracket. No longer am I the choicest meat at the...
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5 reasons Fawad Khan was the perfect choice for Republic
Jeremy Scott and Katy Perry are best friends. So are him and Miley Cyrus. Which is why, when they come out to his shows, people pay attention. Fashionistas and music lovers alike. It is when every pop...
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Held by the CIA, a fictional account
Dear World, My father went missing while on a market errand three years ago. Our wait for him was endless. The law enforcement authorities were approached to find him. Days after filing a missing...
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Dear Pakistan, let America and Saudi Arabia fight over oil prices because it...
Oil prices are way down these days. Crude oil prices have fallen by more than $50 per barrel in international markets in the last six months. From $115 in the middle of June, 2014, the price of a...
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Aao Parhao – Jo Seekha Hai Wo Sekhao
As part of a remembrance to Robin Williams, I arranged a showing of Good Will Hunting and invited some school friends over. After the movie ended, one of them remarked on the critical role the...
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Red Riding Wolf, the child abuser
Red Riding Wolf I once heard a storyteller say, it’s not about the story... for stories are all the same; it’s how you tell a story that makes it different. Today, we embark on the journey of telling...
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Help, my husband is an addict!
I had always feared this to be the truth; I tried to tell myself I was over-reacting, that this was normal behaviour and nothing to be worried about. But now the proof is overwhelming, I can deny it no...
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Should Pakistan apologise to Bangladesh?
Pakistanis celebrate December as the month in which the founder of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was born. December also brings back memories of the dark and stormy, the sad and painful memories of...
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Pakistan versus India: Always controversial, always immature
I was unable to witness the last time Pakistan defeated India on home ground in the 1980s; I wasn’t there to see Pakistan’s flag hoisted in India after their defeat; and I wasn’t there to hear my...
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Witnessing the rise of Modi’s Hindu state
You cannot live in an illusion forever. Reality does strike, sooner or later. And that is what is happening with Narendra Modi’s government in Delhi. The illusion that Modi would usher in a new era of...
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Humanity dies as Peshawar bleeds
This morning, as I opened my social media newsfeed, I was left completely mortified. At around 11.45 am, news about five to six militants who had carried out an attack at the Army Public School (APS)...
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#IllRideWithYou in Sydney and Pakistan
Australia woke up to one of the worst terrorist attacks in its contemporary history yesterday. A gun-toting extremist, Man Haron Moris, took people hostage at Lindt Café in the heart of Sydney’s...
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180 million hearts broken… again
Jallianwala. Dhaka. Quetta. North Waziristan. Peshawar. Places change but stories remain the same. That doesn’t make the heartbreak any more bearable. The unanswerable ‘why’ still looms over our heads....
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What if heaven was unprepared for the little souls of Peshawar?
I don’t know what happens to souls when people die, it is believed that they go to a place called heaven, paradise. But what if heaven is unprepared, what if heaven says, “Oh beautiful souls of...
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Have a heart, PCB, postpone today’s match
My fellow Pakistanis, there is a cricket match scheduled for today. Yes, you read that right. At 4pm, Pakistan time, our nation will take on New Zealand in the fourth cricket ODI in Abu Dhabi. Needless...
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To the Taliban, We are Pakistan and we will never forgive you
You can burn down our schools, tear the lives of families apart and ask minors to recite the kalma before you shoot them in the head. You can wage a war against humanity, impose a rule of tyranny and...
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Red is such an ugly colour on green
My Facebook timeline is black. It’s so black that every time a coloured photo appears on it, I am taken aback and even angered; how anyone can think of posting anything other than black? Black is an...
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The death penalty is justified today
Two recent terrorist attacks have proved to be a watershed in our history. First, the unfortunate siege at the Karachi airport which resulted in the loss of many innocent lives and thereby, creating a...
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The artistic and extraordinary, freshly baked bread
Bread making is both science and art. It’s science in the sense that it involves a lot of chemistry, including fermentation, temperature control and enzymatic activity. It’s an art because crafting and...
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This was not revenge, this was murder without mercy
From today, we can no longer be divided into groups and raise slogans for politicians. Today, we need to join hands and stand together as Pakistanis for the future of this nation. The Peshawar attack...
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