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10 tips to enjoy the winter in Lahore
If you look for stories about Lahore on The Express Tribune Blogs, you’ll find several blogs, most of which would indicate liveliness of ‘zinda dilaan-e-Lahore’ (zealous people of Lahore). Through this...
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Messi wins Ballon d’Or four times in a row
2013 couldn’t have started better for Messi. He successfully managed to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fourth time in a row; an achievement which hasn’t been accomplished before. On January 7, the...
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Going to the bathroom? No need for a status update please!
The advent of social websites such as Facebook and Twitter has forever changed the way we interact with each other. Just about a decade ago, you would not have imagined that you would be able to keep...
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Make sure to have ‘lived’ life before you die
A 33-year-old friend of mine died two years ago, leaving behind two children and a husband who was madly in love with her. A car accident left her in coma for 30 hours before she passed away. Once...
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Qazi Hussain Ahmad’s memorable leadership
The sudden demise of two towering personalities, Professor Ghafoor Ahmed and Qazi Hussain Ahmad, are irreparable losses for the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI.) Both figures served on key slots in the party. I...
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Deadly exorcism and our collective demons of ignorance
Yesterday, the police found a body that had been pierced by needles over a hundred times. The girl's bones were fractured by repeated blows to her limbs, and then burned with a hot iron rod. The police...
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Fatburger gets a big fat ‘yes’ from me!
Fatburger recently started advertising on billboards all across Karachi. The billboards, featuring a mouthwatering Triple Fatburger are pretty hard to miss, and being the burger junkie that I am, I...
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Dear Indian media, please stop spreading hate
Last night I was able to catch a quick glimpse of the news that is being broadcasted in India currently. Since the alleged cross border raid by Pakistani forces that left two Indian soldiers dead,...
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PTI social media codes for nothing, trolling for free
Several weeks ago, I wrote an article that suggested Imran Khan’s political fortunes have changed for the worse, and that the PTI is unlikely to win this year’s elections. Soon thereafter, I received...
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Pressing questions: Should Misbah call it a day?
A series victory typically covers a team's weaknesses as the focus then revolves around how the series was won, which players performed exceptionally, and then generally how good the leadership and...
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Turning auto-correct off can save your life!
In this tech savvy era of drones and super phones, human beings are alarmingly evolving into cyborgs. We have gradually succumbed to electronic devices and text messaging as a preference to keep in...
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Ethnicity trumps humanity in Quetta
My city paints its streets with red as I attempt to write this blog. Tears trickle down my face as I reminisce over Quetta, once known as the city of peace. There was a time when people would take...
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The more they target us, the louder I scream ‘I am Shia’
Over 90 of us perished on January 10, 2013. I don’t mean Pakistanis, I mean Shias. As much as it pains me to identify myself as something before a Pakistani, this state seems to have left us little...
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Can rape be classified as ‘big’ or ‘small’?
A week after Ajmal Kasab – the gunman guilty of complicity in the 2008 Mumbai attacks –was hanged in November 2012, a friend from Mumbai and I were discussing the pros and cons of capital punishment....
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Lincoln: Steven Spielberg’s new oscar-contending masterpiece
To get right to the point Lincoln was a great movie. What made it so? Well therein lays the romp. Time and Memorial writers have vainly tried to measure the chalice of greatness from comparisons to...
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How do you live in a country that’s killing you?
I'm not in Pakistan at the moment, but whenever I travel I leave my heart behind in its hands for safekeeping. I keep thinking about it, like a woman thinks about her beloved, talking to people about...
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In Karachi, fear is always your faithful companion
We are the sons of Karachi. We grew up knowing danger like knowing how to ride a bicycle – memories that refuse to wear down with time. We have lived our lives with fear as a close companion. We boast...
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I found a little bit of Pakistan in Hong Kong!
I have been an expat for three years now and I still can’t get over it. My husband assimilates much better than I do. He is able to adjust to change in a way that is silent and not at all messy. He...
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Eating Fatburgers in Karachi’s urban badlands
This short story is inspired by the Bloomberg article: Pakistan Loving Fatburger as Fast Food Boom Ignores Drones. “Jahangir! Fatburger has come to town – it’s time baita, its time…” The mobile phone...
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Zindagi Gulzar hai: Liberating women in different ways
“Zindagi Gulzar Hai” is a series far better than any I have seen in a long time. The drama is based on Umera Ahmed’s novel “Zindagi Gulzar Hai?” - a story about the daily diaries of two polar...
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