Owais Mughal

Pakistan’s eventful cricket season will come to end today when they will face England in the rubber-decisive 5th One Day International (ODI). And what a season this has been.

Down. Up. Up again. Way down. Up again. And, now, getting ready for a potential nail-biter to the end!

As of now 11 hours and 23 minutes are left before the fifth and final ODI game starts and I am feeling the excitement building already.

What do you say will happen in today’s game?

Owais Mughal

Several people have correctly guessed the following photo. It is the railway track in Pakistan on Quetta-Chaman section. The exact location is between the stations of Kila Abdullah and Shelabagh on approach to the longest tunnel of Pakistan called the Khojak Tunnel. The photo credits belong to one of our favorite photographers Agha Waseem Ahmed who is indeed a ‘yakta-e-rozgaar’ on Railway photography in Pakistan. In the following I am also sharing 4 more photos by Agha Waseem taken on the same Quetta-Chaman section.

Faris Islam

As we ready ourselves to essentially pay our national bills and file taxes on September 30th, this piece by Mohsin Hamid from earlier this year resonated with me – though it talks about raising taxes, just the simple act of actually paying taxes would go a surprisingly long way in alleviating so many of the nation’s problems.

That our nation is going through tough times barely needs repeating – even before the floods, millions were homeless, lacked food and water security and had little hopes of breaking out of the vicious cycle of poverty and hopelessness they, as well as generations before them were all born into.

Mohsin Hamid asks the question we should all ask ourselves in the face of this bone-crushing poverty and desperation, “Why isn’t Pakistan delivering what we hope for? Because of dictatorships, or India, or the Americans? Well, maybe. But these days a large part of the reason is this: we citizens aren’t paying enough for Pakistan to flourish.”