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 In 2003, Ethan Casey, a freelance American Journalist, gets the chance to live in Pakistan through an invitation to teach for a semester in the newly formed Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. His earlier visits to the country were in the second half of the 1990s when he spent most of his time in Kashmir. First quarter of the book is dedicated to Kashmir and stories of individuals struggling to live through the turmoil which has gripped the valley for decades. It is living in Kashmir and the …

A review of Mehreen Jabbar’s first feature film, Ramchand Pakistani.

Get up boy , stand tall !
You put a wonderful show
You have made us proud
Nothing to worry about
We are sad, but not disappointed
We have lost the final , but not the hopes
Hats off to you guys

for making us forget the WC 2007
for reviving the spirit and passion of cricket in Pakistan
and finally, for giving us opportunity to rejoice of something !

Standing ovation to you all !

September 24th, 2007, it was at 7:00 PM that I had an appointment scheduled with a doctor nearby home. I was cursing myself and the …

I was bist-ed by friends and cousins at an event this weekend when I uttered, ” mene aaj tak theek se dekhay nahe paye, khana to dor ki bat hay.” The reaction by the group of around 11 people was so intense that they would have hit me and slapped me if I would have said one more word against the ‘shaan of Paye’. I didn’t knew people like them so much. I was given various labels like, Chawal, Changar, Paindo, Cheesa and others (which are censored). This reaction triggered …

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Its the time for disappointment for Atif fans
The long awaited album from the pakistan’s pop super star Atif Aslam is out and is facing real criticism from all circles. The shortest and most precise comment on the album would be ,” a failed attempt”. The album is no where near to the expectations the fans had set from Atif.With such an exciting debut the fans were expecting even more good from this tallented guy from Lahore.
The album comes out with 18 tracks and even with …

A Whole Generation wiped out
Villages & Cities completly flattened
An earth quake of magnitude 7.6 has wiped out a whole generation in the northern areas of Pakistan. Many of the villages have been completely flattened because of the deadly quake and land sliding. The death tool as reported yet around 40,000 may get doubled as corpses are taken out of the destroyed structures. It is undoubtedly the worst earth quake , Pakistan has ever experienced. Many of the schools were destroyed completely when the children were there in the classes. …