‘Dustbin of history’ or ‘history of sorts’ Musharraf's options flowed from the CHAPPA of Alistair Lamb. With changes in commas and full stops, you could keep making more and more.
I do not understand what the grandson of TE Lawrence is up to.
There is only but one real option.

‘Dustbin of history’ or ‘history of sorts’ Kaal Sahib,
Pay attention to the Point of View of your latest comrades.

‘Dustbin of history’ or ‘history of sorts’ Its known for a long time that USA prefers the Third Option. An independent Kashmir which it can later crop up like Israel/Singapore/Taiwan.

Reforming Religious Fundamentalists Re: # 54
Thanks Sohail for taking time out to think about my question and coming out with the answer I was looking for.
Taliban like the Christian Knights of crusades and Jannisars of Ayubi are indoctrinated and motivated to ignore death, and rather embrace it for a next higher(rather Highest) form. Even if 10% of all militants in Afghanistan /Pakistan are these romantic revolutionaries, then the world is in for a very difficult time. Most of them are nomadic, transcend international boundaries and see only in Black and White. European Modernity Model(not modernization)to them is satanic as is everything that diverges even a stifle from what they believe in. Some of them believe that the collateral damage of innocents is in fact a blessing of Allah, as they go straight to paradise. Their training and application levels are so robust that despite being riddled with bullets, they still have the resilience to pull the cord for self detonation.
All said and done, how do you deal with this?

MQM - History and Origins If MQM can lift the spirits of Jinnah's Pakistan and help remove all those internal conflicts and contradictions begging 1858-Khilafat-Lotacracy-Use of religion as a political tool(Objective Resolution as part of Constitution), they hold the future of Pakistan.
Then, I am with them.

Fathers and Daughters Yes and they know the art of getting their puppy stuff through. When I tease them I call them Blackmailers. The reply is always apt. 'tou aap na karain'. And then the old tree with its freckled trunk just bends.

Fathers and Daughters Cheema,
Re: # 16
'I haven't quite got to your stage but observe with interest the little schemes and manipulations etc gradually progressing into an artform in its own right! .... I only hope it gets better though don't hold my breath ....'

I do not understand what you are implying cause a statement can have thousand meanings.

MQM - History and Origins Re: # 17
I do not agree.
1. We saw day in and day out funerals crowded by MQM of men belonging to Mansehra and Faisalabad.
2. I am a businessman and we pay Bhatta and we know who takes it.
3. Back in 1992, they were getting their supplies through Balochistan and later India. I say on authority that many absconders were given refuge by Mehmood Khan Achakzai. They included Safdar Baqri and Saleem Shehzad.
It was an ISI sponsored gang like any other that outgrew the masters, but credit to them that they are reforming.

Salt N Pepper Mixed work place is a unique environment and gives people a chance to look into each others life outside the Freudian sense. Sometimes it is educative and on others, its back to basic instincts.
This is one wonderful narration, explicit and descriptive with well matched similes and metaphors. These are two very good writings on chowk in one day;he first on 'Father and Daughter' by Fatima Mirza and now this.

Thanks a lot for taking us out of that daily blabber of 'who hates whom' through a journey of language that reach deep into.

Keep writing and Cheerios

Fathers and Daughters Cheema,
The focus should be on this beautiful essay. We have a very sensitive and descriptive writer amongst us, we wish succeed.

Fathers and Daughters Cheema,
It depends how and what relationship evolve.I felt empathy in what Fatima wrote.

In many other cases, such mysticism is not there or self interests take their toll.

Fathers and Daughters laddu yar
tang na kar

Fathers and Daughters ty

Fathers and Daughters Re: # 7
not understood

MQM - History and Origins MQM has an unrivalled political record in areas other parties dont dare like support of minorities particuarly Amedies. I wish that MQM indeed becomes a reformist party and spreads all over Pakistan, but I have a few observations.
1. Why were most of the MQM workers killed on 22 May 2007 from Frontier and Punjab?
2. When will collection of Bhatta and Coercion stop?
3. If gun running is dominated by the rival Pathan-Punjabis, who supplies MQM with weapons?

Fathers and Daughters A very captivating and haunting narrative. Being a father of two daughters growing of age and reasoning, I assure you the other side is far more complicated and solitary. Its like a hundred miles deep Ocean, very calm at the top, but what goes on deep down, very difficult to fathom.
Father and daughter is a communication that never is.Unlike a husband and wife, no one wishes to score brownies. Its that sense of loosing out that creates that strange feeling.
Ami keyay tu roze aa ja
Abuu bolay aitwar ni
Bhaiya boley na thein
Bhena chup rahien
Bhabi boli kabi kabar
Ni Babal