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Cricket conversations and elusive combinations
Cricket conversations and Pakistan's playing XILast week, a TV host suggested that Umar Akmal had wanted to come up the order for a long time and for him to display his full potential he should be...
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Have Bangladeshis overtaken Pakistanis in Britain?
At home and in diaspora, Bangladeshis are leaving Pakistanis behind in human development and prosperity. Recent research from Britain revealed that children born to Bangladeshi parents achieve higher...
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From Germany to India: Two hitchhikers on their way east
Hitchhiking from Germany to India: Two Germans on their way eastBy Morten HübbeThis is the travel blog of backpackers Rochssare Neromand-Soma (28) and Morten Hübbe (30) who met at the same university...
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An angry blog
It’s March already and the weather in Pakistan, instead of getting warmer, is still chilly.This is quite unprecedented. Of course, as usual, the weather experts have all those typical explanations to...
View ArticleOn paper bags, purity and periods
The first time I skipped my Quran reading class, I was 11. I stayed inside the room while my brother carried on his poorly-accented Arabic recitations with our Qari sahib. I wasn’t worried about...
View ArticleAnimal hunting in Pakistan deserves no applause
An Italian national flew 5,157 kilometers to Pakistan, travelled 234 miles north to Gilgit-Baltistan, trekked through the mountainous terrain to a secluded wildlife conservatory near the Pak-China...
View Article7 reasons why Pakistan should not have the death penalty
George Stinney, a 12-year-old black boy, was electrocuted in South Carolina in 1944 for the murder of two white girls, aged seven and 11. He was the youngest person executed in the United States. More...
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Biddu – the (un)sung hero of Pakistan
Biddu's productions forced Indian movie composers to up their game, bringing in more talent, quite a lot of which happens to be Pakistani. —Photo credit: The Post Script Team/Creative CommonsPeople...
View ArticlePTSD in Peshawar: The long road back
It was during our morning report on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit when we heard his screams. We all ran to his room and found him standing there, his hands tightly clenched into fists, ready to fight....
View ArticleHow many more lives will we lose to a failed healthcare system?
If we compiled the number of people who die daily in Pakistan, I am fairly certain that more deaths would be found resulting from medical malpractice and inadequate treatment, than from natural causes,...
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Riaz bhai, the genius of Karachi's camera market
Tucked away under the chaos of Karachi, every so often, you’ll turn a corner and stumble upon pure brilliance. One such place is a small shop on the second floor of the Hashmi Centre at Regal Chowk,...
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A performance not perfect but powerful enough
If you are the sort who believes in such things, then Pakistan’s tournament seems to be following something of a script. Here was a team struggling to win ODI matches at home and away. Its only recent...
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#NeverForget: Running for APS victims in America
As of today, three months have gone by since the attack on Peshawar's Army Public School. 154 people, mostly children, have lost their lives to the carnage.In memory of those beautiful children, and to...
View ArticleKilling outside churches, lynching in the streets
At first, Sunday’s terrorist act seemed like just the latest in a long line of horrific attacks on religious minorities in Pakistan.Taliban militants assaulted two Christian churches in Lahore. At...
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Tracing Arya Samaj in Karachi
It was no surprise that the 1992 Babri Mosque episode in India had repercussions in Pakistan; in fact, the reaction was inevitable. In the Kyamarri region of Karachi (Kemari is a misnomer, since Kya is...
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Food Stories: Focaccia
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.—Chef Paul Prudhomme. Food Stories is a journey of the love of food. So far, we have focused on cuisines from the subcontinent but this week, we take a...
View ArticleLynched by the system
Apparently, 'mob lynching is the worst kind of terrorism' — at least that is what Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar seems to think. Disregard terrorist groups attacking schools, hospitals, churches and...
View Article#WeWillNeverForgetToForget — our #Fail
It is a defense mechanism at this point: turn every issue, every incident into a dichotomy; an either/or, a good side/bad side, and then argue over who is right and who is wrong. That is the only way...
View ArticleThe Zanana Republic: Eight hundred million and counting
Their numbers are huge and potential unlimited. Spread across countries with diverse cultures but united in faith, Muslim women have the potential to fight disease, hunger, poverty, and violence that...
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5 ways our cricket is like our politics (and 5 ways it's not)
It was the latter half of 2000s, a gentleman had firmly consolidated his control. All his subordinates were handpicked, hardly anyone could have questioned his wisdom on matters regarding his purview....
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