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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
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Uzma: Hope you continue visiting ATP. There are quite a few ‘gems’ hidden in ATP archives from many other contributors. Thanks for the kind words.
PMA.
I read your Rishta as well. It is another really nice short story. I am glad to find fiction & literature here at ATP. Also, from the detailed comments on that story, really glad to find that I am not the only engineer interested in writing, literature and arts.
Jalal HB & Hamza: Sorry if you felt that the story was somewhat incomplete. After the death of the main character it did not make much sense to continue. May be his ‘death process’ could have been prolonged. But then again that too might had been upsetting for some readers. Does the lil boy grow up to be a doctor? I don’t know. May be there is seed for the next story! If you are new to ATP, please visit the archive section for my other stories. Thanks for the encouragement.
Shazia R. Hussain & Aamir Ali: Thanks for the compliments and liking the story. When first writing it I really had no idea how to end it. What will become of Bakka. Finally the ending came out by itself. But after I finished writing it I must admit that I too got misty eyed. I felt so sad for him but left it that way. Sometime when you revise the first story line you loose the spontaneity and punch.