Jehanzeb

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Name: Jehanzeb Idrees
Date registered: February 22, 2009
URL: http://blog.pakfellows.com/

Latest posts

The Middle East “Re-solution” — February 4, 2011
Motherhood — July 7, 2009
Cricket at last! — June 22, 2009
10th April, 1988 — April 10, 2009
An Afterthought — March 16, 2009

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Feb
04
2011

The Middle East “Re-solution”

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Pakistan,
Politics

by Jehanzeb

“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder” … some wise words by one of the wisest of the 20th century and how I do not wish to disagree Mr. G.B.Shaw for he spoke my heart out decades ago. One of the great revolutions of the last …

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Jul
07
2009

Motherhood

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Food For Thought

by Jehanzeb

I am not a sexist by any means and the people on and off facebook who know me, know it well but I have always tried to uphold, talk and stress upon the values that are fading fast in the face of consumerism a.k.a capitalism. At times, I’ve been labelled as ‘consevative’ and ‘old-school’ but …

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Jun
22
2009

Cricket at last!

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by Jehanzeb

I was in the break-out room of our Mobilink office with dozens of colleagues huddled round the big TV screen watching the T20 WC final. The match was well poised but at a very critical juncture. Pakistan just lost its skipper Shoaib Malik and with an ever-increasing required rate the match was tilting slightly into …

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Apr
10
2009

10th April, 1988

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Pakistan

by Jehanzeb

21 years ago on the morning of 10th of April, 1988 at around 8 am, I was very excited, my father was preparing my school bag as next day, the 11th April was going to be my very first day at school. One of our neighbors who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia had come …

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Mar
16
2009

An Afterthought

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by Jehanzeb

Taking advantage of a rather long weekend my cousin’s family had come to spent their Sunday with us. With them was their beautiful little daughter who barely started speaking a couple of months back. Like most Pakistani families this past Sunday, we spent most of our day huddled around the television watching the developing political …

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Mar
16
2009

A time for cautious optimism

Categories:

Pakistan,
Politics

by Jehanzeb

Keeping all my personal reservations aside for today, I would like to congratulate the people who genuinely came out on the streets to demand the restoration of their Chief Justice. I wish them all the best and pray that their hopes become a reality and my fears fail me for good. And I wish that …

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