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Food Stories: Shahi Tukray
Photo by Fawad Ahmed My husband has two great passions in life, and one of them is meetha. Thus begins the story of my search for his favourite dessert, Shahi Tukray cooked to perfection. What is it...
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Movie Review: R…Rajkumar
The hero kicks ass without getting as much as a scratch; the heroine loves him for it. Expect masala. Don’t hate yourself for it.This year, or more precisely a significant portion of director Prabhu...
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The man on the garbage heap and other happy humans
Most of us well-heeled ones don’t go and brush shoulders with the teeming masses on the Seaview beach or with those living and working in the “service sectors” of Defence and Clifton like Gizri Bazaar...
View ArticleTo vote or not to vote: Is that the question?
As the assembly and parliamentary elections draw near in Indian administered Kashmir casual discussions inside many households and heated debates on the shop railings amongst passionate young and old...
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Four issues Pakistanis can influence more than US drones
US drone strikes have caused an outrage in Pakistan where thousands of young impressionable Pakistanis have taken to the streets. Until last week, the demonstrators had disrupted Nato supplies...
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Failing to plan the Planning Commission – I
A search is on for the new chief, but no one seems to care. Unlike searches for the chief justice and the chief of army staff, the search for the Planning Commission’s chief economist, and for several...
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Which Quaid?
With the Quaid’s birthday coming up the editor of this section suggested I dedicate my next piece to the father of the nation and the mausoleum made in his honour. I instinctively agreed. In fact, I...
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Years of the gun: A political history of the AK-47 in Pakistan
On the 24th of December, Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian gun designer, died at the ripe old age of 91. The rifle that he invented, the Kalashnikov/AK-47, in 1946, went on to become one of the most...
View ArticleHere is no enemy but a rough winter
Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with meAnd turn his merry noteUnto the sweet bird’s throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather. (William...
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Movie Review: Dhoom 3
A scene from movie, "Dhoom 3". - Courtesy PhotoBike chases, high-flying circus acts, scowls and incredible nonsense.“Dhoom 3”, the sequel to “Dhoom 2” that took seven years to make it to projection...
View ArticleLicense to kill?
Sixty-two-year-old Rizwan Hashmi is like any other retired gentleman his age. On a personal front he has led a fulfilling life, worked hard and raised his four children to become educated and...
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Channan Pir
Roads and railway tracks leading out of Sadiq’s Bahawalpur connect to other cities while also linking to a vast desert on the other end. Personalities hailing from this historical city include a...
View ArticleJimmy nay socha: Red light
I hope the day sees light when we start taking the red light seriously. Maybe it’s just where I live but all sorts of people even educated ones who appear privileged seem to have lost any sense of...
View ArticleA Murder in Makkah
The authorities at the Saudi Hospital where they finally found him said they had found his body in a rubbish heap near an industrial area in Arafat. The young Pakistani men who had been looking...
View ArticleSpring is the real beginning
“December does not depress me. January does not please me. One is a false end, the other a false start. Spring is the real beginning. When a thousand colours grow out of the frozen earth. And the air...
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Whither principled politics?
Yesterday two irresponsible statements came on record. The first one out of Garhi Khuda Baksh from an emotional Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who equated the massive presence of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI)...
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When a movement became a government
Bharat Mata Ki Jai is a slogan associated with the Hindu Right and Inquilab Zindabad with the Indian Left. After taking oath as chief minister at the jam-packed Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on Saturday,...
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Movie Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In the land of Tolkien-fantasy, Peter Jackson rules as King – and like many kings, he makes mistakes.In the middle of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” – or should I say, a smaller part stitched...
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The year of living violently
It was yet another year of death and destruction. Violence scarred every dispute that people faced individually or collectively. Terrorism alone claimed 5,366 lives in 2013. Given the catastrophic...
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