In dark times like these, when all one hears about is terrorist attacks, corruption scandals and Amir Liaqat's Iftaar shows, news like this is a rare treat and has a pleasant, somewhat calming effect on one's mind and conscience.
From The News:
Islamabad
Pakistani students have yet again...
I would love to see something like an "Academic section" on PDF, where people can discuss things like:
Online educational resources
Physics
Mathematics
Academic and Career guidance
Employment for graduates in various fields in Pakistan and abroad.
The scope of various emerging and...
Meh. This is pretty common, actually. The uncle of an old school-mate of mine died from the same cause. If I remember correctly, we even have a name for home-brewn alcohol. It's called "kuppi" if I am not wrong.
My joke was intended to be satire. The same way people make jokes about corruption, in order to highlight it. Sorry if it offended you, though. Guess I should think things through before posting.
From the Express Tribune:
Jamshed Dasti: You have no idea who I am!
ISLAMABAD:
Just as people in glass houses should not hurl stones, people in parliament houses should not hurl threats.
Member of the National Assembly Jamshed Dasti, who based his election campaign on slogans of representing...
Radicalism and Religious Extremism (or Mullahism, as you put it) is the worst thing that ever happened to the nation. The mullahs are responsible for almost all of our current problems including terrorism, lack of foreign investment, sectarian violence, lack of tourism, bad international...
A few things do come to mind:
There would be none of those exciting and fanatical Pakistan vs India cricket matches.
Zaid Hamid wouldn't be able to cook up those hilariously ridiculous R&AW conspiracy theories.
The comment threads under Youtube videos of the Pakistani national anthem and...
From the Express Tribune:
PARACHINAR: At least 50 people were killed and 122 injured in two bomb explosions in the central market in the Shia dominated town of Parachinar, Kurram Agency, Express News reported.
Two bombs planted in motorbikes were reportedly detonated in the Shingak Bazaar and...
I think he was referring to Shahbaz's drug addiction:
Speed is amphetamine, a stimulating drug that triggers the brain’s reward system giving the user feelings of pleasure. Speed also goes by the street names “Ice, Crystal meth and Shabu” 2 The drug works using Dopamine...
Looking at my own family:
My paternal grandfather is from Saharanpur, in India, my paternal grandmother was Punjabi. My maternal grandfather was half-Palestinian-Jordanian, half-Russian; my maternal grandmother was from Hyderabad, in India.
So my dad, a Muhajir-Punjabi, married my mom, a...