Karachi is blasphemous, Lahore is not
If blasphemy is defined as ‘irreverent behaviour towards anything sacred’, Karachi is blasphemous; a city where something as sacred as human life is irreverently and disdainfully extinguished. As...
View ArticleHome is where the heart(less) is
April 25, 2014 Friday, 4:08pm: I finally check my regular worldly news and social media updates. After a hectic day of running errands, wading in the rain and running around for meetings here and...
View ArticleWhat about the two Air Force pilots who died yesterday?
Yesterday, Pakistan lost two impeccable fighter pilots in a saddening crash in Karachi. The incident took the lives of Wing Commander Khurram Sammad and Squadron Leader Umair Elahi. As the Mirage...
View ArticleWhen the ‘city of lights’ turns into the ‘city of survival’
Karachi will endure not just because it has to, but because its inhabitants refuse to call it quits and give in to the face of adversity, for it is the people that define Karachi, and their resilience...
View ArticleThe tale of May 12, 2007: He was ordered to “go for the kill” and “take no...
What started as a casual chat over tea amid the winter season, turned out to be quite a tumultuous tale of violence and mayhem that erupted on May 12, 2007 in Karachi, narrated by one of the...
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