Bhutto’s death: A dream has vanished

Last night I was passing by the main avenue when I saw some flickering lights in the distant. It was Pakistan peoples party office and the large portraits of Z. A. Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were wrapped in the pitch darkness of the night. In the foreground were people with candles in their hands. It was a candle light [...]

Forced happiness and women of Pakistan

Women in Pakistan suffer in a variety of ways. Young, marriageable girls in Pakistanwho are given education to increase the ‘rishta’ value are the victims of a new wave of caste/clan-holiness-better-than-thine-happiness phenomenon. Girls are outnumbering boys in the academic pursuits and recently announced results of graduate exams show a pathetic 5:1 ratio of high success [...]

Obedience in Islam: Misuse and distortions

Islam in Pakistan has been marred and disfigured mainly by the ex army ruler and usurper of power, Gen. Zia ul Haq during his reign of terror (1977 – 1988). He was the guy who deposed the only elected prime minister of the united Pakistan and was later the key player in his judicial murder. He, [...]

The ENLIGHTENED Pakistan of Indus Music and Style Awards.

General Musharraf recently announced Pakistanis are getting enlightened. The sleeve-less singer on the night of August 14 2006 (on Indus Music cable channel) bears testimony to the fact. Another guy came in knee length capri pants to announce some style award. Dress code was more vulgar than on FTV for a large number of poor [...]

A nightmare called Sony Ericsson K 700i

So that is how I parted from my Sony Ericsson K 700i mobile phone http://www.sonyericsson.com.  It was last May that the phone was launched with ads of various pop/rock/third grade to first rate artists holding the phone and their moms and sisters pouring over them to let them see the would be daughter-in-law/sister-in-law. Artist in [...]

WOMEN IN TODAY’S PAKISTAN

Western media and people think they are all veiled, kept behind bars (or locked doors) and serve as objects of pleasure in a modern, enlighted Pakistan under the equally enlightened leadership of army generals and feudal lords who hardly have anything with the name of vision in their minds or brains, well, except for the [...]

Odd couple

July 7, 2006, the court of an additional session judge was in order. Outside the courtroom it was sweltering hot. No drinking water or shade was there for the accused or their families, convicted and their loved ones, lawyers, their ‘munshis’ all looked the same. Tired, disillusioned, sick and greedy. They are tired and sick [...]

In heresay we believe

The latest from Islamic republic of Pakistan is the awareness shown by a newspaper columnist that the decayed and dead civil society under the heavy army boots and thick clergy beard has shown signs of a filthy thought process.
Dr. Safdar Mehmood is a retired civil service officer who was very active in writing books about [...]

Jazz June, Kill or get killed

Education in Pakistan is what we obtain to look smart and earn better. It gives us a sense of being superior. And being superior is what matters in Pakistan. Hardly anything is done in the daily life of people which misses this one aspect of self praise. This self praise and importance-in-your-own-eyes takes many shapes and forms. [...]