This is a blog of personal musings that I started in 2010 and have used sporadically. It started on Posterous, then migrated to WordPress.com in 2013, before finally resettling here.
Satellite imaging and bullshit in Karachi
(Photo stolen from AP) So, as Karachi continues to burn from the ongoing politico-ethno-sectarian violence (or "target killings"), Interior Minister Rehman M...
Flood preparations in Kala Dhaka
A friend whose family is living in the Kala Dhaka area of Mansehra district tells me that the Frontier Constabulary has now left the area after completing it...
Aamir Liaquat Hussain's latest pearl of wisdom
So I can't let this slip by. The Jang/Geo group's columnist and superstar Islamic televangelist Amir Liaquat Hussain (sorry you won't be able to view the lin...
The myth of war reporting in Pakistan
The Pakistani army has killed at least 71 civilians in an air strike in the Khyber Agency. As news gets around, people are slowly beginning to express their ...
Overheard at Aafia Siddiqui's house
Dr Aafia Siddiqui's 12-year old daughter Mariam mysteriously shows up at her grandmother's home after being missing for seven years. Fauzia Siddiqui (Dr Aafi...
Constitutional gender-bending
So I've been going through the proposed 18th Amendment and have been learning lots of things about the Constitution that I did not know before. One thing I h...
Here-a-men, there-a-men, everywhere-a-men men
Whenever I open the newspaper in Pakistan, all I ever see is men. Men, men, men. Here-a-men, there-a-men, everywhere-a-men men. Can you spot the odd one out ...
Why is the PC Hotel Karachi Functional Despite Strike by Over 250 Workers?
Occupation Day 12: I am reposting Dr Riaz's (International Socialists) latest facebook update on the PC hotel occupation below. Let me add to this that the u...
Workers occupation of PC Hotel: Day 10
The workers occupation of the basement of the Pearl Continental Hotel Karachi is now in its tenth day, yet there is no end in sight to the stand off. It shou...
Workers occupation of PC Hotel basement
These are the latest photos from the basement of the Pearl Continental Hotel in Karachi. A hundred and fifty hotel workers have been occupying the basement f...
Strike: 150 Workers Occupy Karachi PC Hotel
Dr. Riaz Ahmed of International Socialists Pakistan posted the following on his facebook account a little while. I am copying it below because you will not r...
taxi in qayyumabad
bach na saka khuda bhi mohabbat ke taqazon se // ik mehboob ki khatir sari dunya bana dali (even God himself could not escape the demands of Love // for the ...