Owais Mughal I’ve discussed the neighbourhood I grew up at quite a few times. For example here and here. Today I’ve brought another story from it. In our neighborhood there used to live a crow. Although the neighborhood was filled with thousands of resident crows, this one crow was special. He was special because in […]

Gues Post By Athar Osama In October 1999, when General Musharraf came to power in a coup and declared himself the Chief Executive of the country, he was met by a silent nod of approval by his 150 million compatriots. Many of us thought, quite naively though, that he would fix what was wrong with […]

Owais Mughal Some of our readers may have already seen this photo in today’s Dawn. I found the photo subject too creative to not share here. This is a banana-shop in Sitara Market of Islamabad. An Urdu verse also comes to my mind: ‘hain kawakab kuch, nazar aate hain kuch’