Archive for January, 2009
Pelting For Paradise
Last week Dawn ran two stories on the dismal state of a leopard at the Karachi Zoo. The writer stated how the beast was being regularly pelted with stones and disturbed with sticks by the visitors. How awful! No, not the fate of the leopard, but the audacity of the writer to actually ask the [...]
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And Then…
I read this fantastic letter in Dawn. The writer wondered about the instinctive ability of religious parties to protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians, but they keep mum when the Taliban attack fellow Pakistanis through suicide bombers.
So true, I thought. Not only do I never see them protesting against suicide attacks, sometimes they can be [...]
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Blow Daddy
Daddy?
Yes, son.
Are we going to have a war with India?
Perhaps.
Oh, goody. We will thrash them, right? Like we did in 1857!
It wasn’t in 1857, son.
Oh, okay. But whom did we thrash in 1857?
The British, son…
And the Hindus too, right?
Well…
Did Quaid-i-Azam fight in that war along with Muhammad bin Qasim and Imran Khan?
No, son. The Quaid [...]
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