Aziz Akhmad

We have been seeing too many dramatic and dreadful images on our TV screens in the past few weeks. It is like watching an action packed Western movie, where, every 10 or 15 minutes, there is a gun battle, an ambush, a lynching or some other gory scene. The only difference was, in the movies the bad guys get killed and the good guys prevail; in our real life story, it has been mostly the other way round.

Of all the dreadful images, those that remain etched one’s mind are: A wounded and frightened policeman trying to crawl his way out of the line of fire while another, not so lucky, lying sprawled, face down, on the grounds of the Police Training School. Another sad but powerful image from the same scene, shown only briefly, was that of a horse, hit in the crossfire, lying on his side, not quite unhitched from his carriage, desperately pounding the ground with his foreleg.

Adil Najam

This intriguing picture from Islamabad advertises a “Child Friendly School”?

Leaves one wondering about exactly what a “child friendly school” is? Maybe our readers can tell us what that would mean in Pakistan.

By implication, it suggests that other schools are not “child friendly.” That may well be so. After all, we have written before about schools that had 25 teachers and only 52 students!

In fairness, this seems to be the name of the school itself. In which case this may be a case of Pinglish. If that is so, one would have to wonder whether the school is “education friendly,” irrespective of whether it is “child friendly” or not.

Owais Mughal

I was surfing youtube when I came across this video. ‘Lahoo ko garma dia is video ne’. A collection of Pakistan’s legendary fast bowling duo, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. The real video starts around time stamp of 35s, so don’t give up without watching the whole thing. If you want to share other other Wasim-Waqar clips, feel free to do so in the comments section below.