Owais Mughal One fine morning in 1981, our class teacher called in sick. Few students shed crocodile tears and a substitute teacher was sent in by the office to take class teacher’s place for the day. As substitute teachers sometimes do, he was doing anything but teach. He asked our class if anyone knew any […]

Mohammad Ayaz Abdal Behind the Dubai palace in Karachi, near the seashore, there lives a merry old man. He holds a treasure which is unparallel in this world. A treasure which is most likely to be destroyed……… The reason being, most of us still questions the validity of the argument that it is indeed a […]

Raza Rumi This post is the third in our series on recapping the fall of East Pakistan in 1971. The previous two posts of this series can be read here and here. Every year the sixteenth day of that deadly December invited little attention in the mainstream media as the new Pakistan struggles to manage […]