A Missionary School Renames NWFP

Off and on we Pakistanis discuss the right name for the province that the British inconveniently named North West Frontier Province or NWFP. Meanwhile, St. Francis School of Excellence, Murree, has put up an ad for 2008 admissions and have conveniently named it, on their own, Pakhtunistan.
Cool, eh?

The ad appeared in paper version of The […]

Pakistan is for SALE

You must have noticed the winter sale season going on these days. Hang Ten is giving 50% off. Nike is doing better at 60%. Sheikh’s Mall is beating both of them with 70%. But no one, I repeat, no one, is able to beat the Lion King and his pack of hyenas. They have put […]

Zuckerberg, Scoble, and… Musharraf?

Zuckerberg, Scoble, and… Musharraf? What a combination! I wonder what Musharraf was doing with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook.

“We are fighting for Pakistan”

Thanks to Jehan Ara’s “Wake up call“, I get to read a beautifully written post on the Emergency in Pakistan and the struggle that is needed of us.
Here is a quote from the post.
Today, at the most critical juncture that this country has seen in its turbulent history for decades, we have an opportunity […]

Enlightened Moderation

The TV channel that airs the show calls it “the meanest chat show on tv”. Ali Saleem, the host of the show, thinks he is a diva. Even “sitting senators have sent requests to be on the show”. If you haven’t seen the Late Night Show With Begum Nawazish Ali , you are missing quite […]