Archive for June, 2007
I am smoking my Bensons straight, sitting in front of my laptop, listening to my wife complaining about my usual laziness. She’s like George Fulton (of the George Ka Pakistan fame, and now the producer of Aaj TV’s News, Views & Confused).
George reminds me of my wife because in so many ways we are total [...]
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Foxtrot
This is how it goes: You watch a typical news report on a TV channel, all blood, fire and death, and you feel angry at the government. True to form, the channels repeat the pictures and you just shake your head, but continue to curse the government. Of course, all day long the pictures keep [...]
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Dogma eat dogma
According to the usually very observant and intelligent men and women of science, man is a social animal. If we add to this the scientific facts of Darwinism and the theory of evolution, we are then also called ‘intelligent apes’, and/or ‘thinking mammals’.
According to evolutionists, we evolved from chimps on trees and apes in the [...]
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Of Beards & Butter
Last year 21-year-old Wasif Qureshi graduated from a local college in Karachi. He is a budding musician, has a band, a recently acquired day job (in an advertising agency) and dreams of traveling abroad to do his masters degree.
In what, I asked him? Advertising, Marketing, Economics, Music …?
“Islamic Studies,” said he.
I was obviously taken aback. [...]
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From the wrong end
Trust former Junoon guitarist and rather self-duped solo act, Salman Ahmed, to continue with his cornerstone habit of shooting himself in the foot while always trying to jump on various social and political bandwagons to remain in the picture. The latest example is Salman’s rather theatrical letter that he wrote and circulated in the media [...]
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One of my favorite cousins who studies at the Lahore University of Managerial Sciences (LUMS), called me on the evening of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudary’s “historic” procession in Lahore. She said she was joining many of her colleagues from LUMS who were already at the event and asked me what I [...]
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