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For those that do not know me, I am a proud computer geek. I always have been a geek ever since my mother bought me NHS glasses with thick brown frames and lenses the width of jam jars when I was a little boy. And with this ridiculously short sighted handicap, I began my adventure into the world of computers and their wonderful games. I immigrated from the Sinclair to the Amstra...
“It is not Pakistan, it is Perishanistan”
Perishan – Sadness
Perishanistan – The land of sadness
I was watching the pictures of the flood on the TV with my colleague Abdul Wahab in the first few days of ...
They have been locked in a near permanent state of confrontation for six decades, stopping only to make feeble overtures of peace to pacify onlookers. These 63-year-olds have great reserves of animosi...
I toss and turn for about 20 minutes, feeling thoroughly worn out, I finally feel my eyelids getting heavier, and eventually closing. And then that sound goes again, “ Pp-aaa, pp-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, ...
I suppose this beginning sentence marks a very unusual start to this attempted essay because form the onset I shall admit I have no idea why I write. Yes I suppose some small naive part of me thinks b...
Our project is bursting into life. From an unlikely trio we have now become an eclectic mix of international
volunteers and local staff. Our numbers now exceed over 20 and the complexity o...
This post is dedicated to the best NGO team in Pakistan in my opinion, the Doctors Worldwide team.
The last 48 hours have posed the greatest challenges and headaches to me since I arrived ...
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Rally
'Aman-ki-Asha" is a campaign by the Time of India and the Jang group of Pakistan. By harnessing print and web news media towards a peace project between the two nations, peace, seems "stubbornly...
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The difficult roads make it a longer and more tiring journey than it should have been. It is still the early hours of the morning and were not it not for the blasting AC in the car, we too would have ...
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The UK Home Office has banned the renowned Islamic scholar Dr. Zakir Naik from entry into the