The General vs. the Judge Re: # 8

i agree, plus the economic social and political condition is vastly different in venezuela and tariq ali`s obsession with V in connection with Pakistani politics borders on stupidity.


PS: getting a talkshow is no big deal, even Ant and Dec have shows and they prolly have not even passed their high school diplomas and there show is far more popular ...

The General vs. the Judge come on people, Tariq Ali is extremely over rated as a political analyst. All he has ever done is given examples after examples of Venezuela in general and Chavez in particular. If I didn`t know better, I would have thought that he has a `thing` for Mr. Chavez.

The General vs. the Judge ////There is an easy solution. The General should discard his uniform, the Judge should forego his wig and the two men should battle it out on the electoral terrain./////


This is too simplistic to work out, even for a person like Tariq Ali.

Splinter yawn .....

To Hug or not to Hug Re: # 27

do you know that a white british woman confessed her love for Maulvi hook on day time talk show ``Trisha`` (she is a wannabe british oprah) and said that she used to call Maulvi saab of hook variety regularly and had hots for him. hotttttttttttttttttsssssssssss

Stopping the Clock Ibrahim,

Don`t underestimate love handles, they are important, in fact they are essential.
When love is gone, and it almost always goes away after a certain time, you need to hold on to something and love handles are for life, they never go away.

Home is where the heart is I couldn`t agree more ... gone are the days when you are solely known by the place you are from. Home is where you feel at home, it does reside neither in a person nor in a city. I remember my Canadian friend in Manchester (where i went for my degree) asking if i adjusted well in the city and i said, yeah i am completely at home, which surprised her. What i didn`t tell her that there are places in Pakistan where i would not feel comfortable venturing out alone and that alone makes that city more of a home than any other place.

in this globalized world, when more and more people are leaving their hometowns, home is not permenant, it moves with you .....

Re-Imagining Pakistan Re: # 182


Ah finally someone after my own heart ...

Indian Scholarships for Outstanding Pakistani Students Ditto here

great idea, i hope someone influential enough is reading it.

Refugee for Life? Packing and moving 1000 miles only because their neighbour in Lakhnow was not their co-religionist may not make sense now -- though for some it still does -- but back then, most people who had means did move. As for your comment about enlightened people not moving like that because of communal reasons.... lets just say that people are still doing it. My sister left her home in, Greensboro, North Carolina in 2002 after her 7-year-old son was repeatedly beaten up by school bullies in the aftermath of September 11, to a more tolerant Northern state. Similarly, my Hindu Gujaratee friend who is married to a Ismaili Muslim moved to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh to save her life after the 2002 Gujarat riots. Cant really say whether the threats to life and property were real or percieved only, but they were strong enough to make people leave the places they love or identify with. After the targeted killing of many shia doctors in Karachi, a couple of families I know also packed and left Pakistan, and they sure are educated and enlightened.

Untitled Just a thought .... doesn`t Ferhat Hashmi belong to the hardline sect where even naat recitation is haram.

Girlfriends I think most of the girls have experienced similar joys at the some stages in life and I too have thoroughly enjoyed my time with my lovely friends, but sadly, it is not for the lifetime. Women may share teeniest of the detail when they are friends but they are generally not very good at keeping the friendships when faced with other priorities on their time. They may not mean it but it usually happens. May be it is for the best, that way they can always look back, reminisce and rejoice that beautiful period.

Thinking of Home hi Adnan,

just conveyed my feelings, although I could never have expressed them so beautifully.

Tomorrow never came just one question: what is justification/logic of raising the morale of the soldiers by chanting jai kaali and jai durga in a supposedly secular India with 27 or 30 per cent ( I am not sure) non-hindu population. Wouldn`t it backfire, if the non-hindu population is propotionately represented in the army?

The Directors’ Cut Never thought that NFP would not get his facts right. The episodes of Anakahi rotated between late Mohsin Ali and Shoaib Mansoor.
Take it from someone who actually grew up on Ankahi and has watched it more than 100 times.