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A Letter To President Musharraf

Mr. President – we do not desire any more simpleton rhetoric or illogical declarations. We want you to take positions and then stick to them. … We want to allow alcohol and its attendant sins, regulate them, and use them to generate MUCH NEEDE

Why Fashion Matters

According to Frieha Altaf, “Fashion in Pakistan is and always has been for the elite. It has two effects: a trickle-up effect, when street fashion comes into the main-stream; and a trickle-down effect, when fashion moves from the elite to the masses

Of Tiaras and World Peace

We hear more of world peace on the stage and see more blood shed in the real world but we take it all with a pinch of salt and allow them their moments of glory.

Loud and Soft

There are certain features that give Lahore its cultural face. There is the Ajoka theatre, NCA, Alhamra and the Arts Council and there is Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

A Pocket Full of Faux Pas’

That’s the problem with money. It stifles creativity – instead of discovering one’s own style and sense, instead of honing one’s own eye by being forced to invent, to innovate one can just go and acquire another’s. Whether i

Amnesia

Preparing for flight he stretched his arms before him, ending them with two strong fists suitably accompanied by a tightening of his smile.

The Vagina Monologues

One Eve banished us from Heaven. Another is helping us discover the heaven within ourselves. One Eve is blamed in Western theology for initiating sin and instilling self-loathing in her daughters.

Khadija Hassan

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