Owais Mughal
In my not-so-extensive vocabulary, Pakistani food can be divided into two categories viz., Any-day-dishes and Many-day-dishes.
Any-day-dishes are those for which one prays to God to get any day e.g. nihari, qorma, biryani, haleem, halwa puri etc.
Then there are Many-day-dishes. These are generally good for health therefore less popular. These are eaten widely because they [...]
Owais Mughal
Karachi native Naseem Hameed won Gold medal in SAARC games in 100 meters sprint on Feb. 7 and returned home to Karachi to a great welcome today. This gives her the title of fastest lady in a region which includes some of the most populous countries of the word viz India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The [...]
Owais Mughal
aa gayee! chaa gayee ! (came, saw and conquered). I recently came across poet Khalid Irfan’s latest book titled ‘No Problem’ and thought of Julius Ceaser’s veni, vidi, vici phrase. There are very few books that I have finished in one sitting and No Problem comes very close to it. I read it [...]
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I never met Gul Hameed Bhatti. But when the news of his sad demise came on February 4, 2010 it made me sad. He was 63 years old.
While I never met him, I knew him from my childhood and always regarded him as the one who was a walking encyclopaedia on Pakistani Cricket. He [...]
Owais Mughal
This is one topic I’ve been wanting to write about for a while now. But instead of me writing on it, we want to do an experiment here. We would like our readers to tell us what do they know about the project. I will then compile the information collected from your replies here [...]
Owais Mughal
We seem to be on a roll with cricket related posts (here and here and here). So, here is one with more pleasant associations.
See if you can count how many cricket matches are simultaneously going on at GTC Ground Hyderabad on the New Year’s Day - 2010 (please click on the photo below to [...]
