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Monday, February 20, 2012

Lock Up The Lazy (Editor)

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Yesterday's print edition of the Express Tribune carried this item in 'News In Brief' in its Life&Style section: ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Pathetic Express

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I don't watch Kamran Shahid 's show. I really don't. That's why I had to be told by another Pyala that I should probably se...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Love, Pakistani style

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It's been a busy day for lovers around the world. In Malaysia , authorities arrested 80 umarried Muslims from budget hotels and parks ....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A Small Robbery

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Sometimes the most eye-popping stories are seemingly inconsequential ones tucked away on the inside pages of mainstream papers. Here's ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lessons from Maya Khan

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I thought about simply updating the previous post but decided that this deserved a separate entry. So, after much pressure from soci...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Samaa Stoops to New Lows

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What a fucking waste of a Sunday. Here I was minding my own business, trying to do some work, relax a little bit, surf the net and... I end...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Um...Is That Who We Think It Is? (Updated)

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Some new evidence has come to light related to 'Memogate' that we think should be placed in front of the Commission investigating ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Pakistan, A Malleable History

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Last month, while other pyalas scuttled off to the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf's (PTI’s) Karachi jalsa with visions of free potty trainin...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

PTI Gets, Like Totally, Pwned

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I was never very fond of former DawnNews morning show and current TVOne anchor Faisal Qureshi - he currently hosts the show Bang-e-Dara...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Bizarre Newspaper Headline Awards

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Every newspaper does year-enders, you know those things that sum up what happened in the past year that everyone already knows about and wh...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Notes from the 'Revolution' (Karachi Season)

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I had half made up my mind to tweet about my impressions of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf 's (PTI's) Karachi rally today (yes, I did go d...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Game Afoot?

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I had promised a comprehensive post about the unraveling of Husain Haqqani when it first happened. The different aspects of the case (techn...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

News After It Happens

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Apparently some erstwhile DawnNews staffers are mighty miffed that we haven't given the sudden closure of Express 24/7 early this mor...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Open Letter to PTA

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Now that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has unfortunately allegedly indefinitely deferred its proposed ban on scurrilous ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

You Are Not The Story

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I have been meaning to write about a clip from the DawnNews show Kab Ta k titled ' Hasool-e-Insaaf Ki Jidojehd ' (The Struggle fo...
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