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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 [...]

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 [...]

تمہیں یاد ہو کہ نہ یاد ہو
ہمیں یاد ہے وہ ذرہ ذرہ

The shenanigans of our political stalwarts are no different than Indian soaps, boring and predictable. I found myself amused by the adulatory tone of their speeches reminding me of a hit number by Def & Leppard ‘When Love and Hate Collide’. Ah! What maturity of thoughts and sorts we are experiencing, a new political dimension [...]

I was simply shocked to read this report by Teeth Maestro where he points out that the US drones firing missiles in the North Western Pakistani territory have been parked in our backyard all along, from where they are able to fly them and launch an attack within minutes.

In a shocking discovery reports have emerged [...]

Article by Saeed Shah at guardian.co.uk

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist accused of selling nuclear secrets, was today (Feb 06) freed from five years of house arrest by a court and immediately declared that he can now “lead a normal life”.
Khan, lionised as the “father” Pakistan’s atomic bomb, confessed in 2004 to selling nuclear secrets [...]

Source: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui speaks out
Posted by Khurram Ali Shafique also managing About Aafia Blog
At last a word has come out from Dr. Aafia Siddiqui herself about her travails. On Tuesday, October 6, four Pakistani senators met her in Texas but unfortunately their account has not been properly covered in many news reports. One exception [...]