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Blook

The Circus of 1857

Recently I was talking to a friend in Malaysia and she asked me to define what does farce means and I was startled at her question first and that of telling her that it means a ridiculous situation but then I asked her to wait until the weekend and read my blog to have a better incite on the word. The last Mughal Emperor of India Bahadur Shah Zafar asscended the throne in 1837 when he was little over 60 years of age. He was last in the lineage of Mughal emperors who ruled over India for about 300 years. Bahadur Shah Zafar was a weak ruler who came to throne when the Britis

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Worthwhile Princesses

I was 11 and sitting in my study doing home work. I had the least idea of the term beauty pageant, Miss World or the Miss Universe, for my home work I was supposed to write an essay on the topic “My Mother” with a despairing mood as of not knowing how and where to start from I clearly remember that to distract myself I climbed on the shelves and started shuffling through my mother’s magazines when I came across the photo of lovely princess Julia Alexandrovna Kourotchkina wearing a crown and a sash and assumingly had two younger princesses or maybe her maids or the court o

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Lucid Ambiguity – Oh La – La

Chief Justice Iftikhar Chowdhery’s son Arsalan Iftikhar’s corruption of at least PKRS 400 million has come to fore. If you all remember then he is the same Dr. Arsalan who was first caught during General Pervaiz Musharaf’s regime by journalist Ansar Abbasi for misusing his father’s position to get posting in police as an ASP and Assistant Director in Federal Investigation Agency. Mr Abbasi preferred to ‘pardon’ him once the free judiciary movement kicked off after the sacking of Justice Chowdhery by General Musharraf. Now, Dr. Arsalan Iftikhar, a police – cum – realtor, is

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Silent Castles in the Air

What purpose other than maligning politicians is served by this senseless barrage of accusations and counter-accusations by the leaders of two political parties, namely the PML-N and the PTI. This country needs a government of laws, not of men who consider themselves bigger than institutions and unwilling to submit to the supremacy of the constitution and accountability. The only sane voice I have heard is that of Afzal Sindhu, who publicly stated that such politics is in bad taste. If only saner elements had prevailed in PML-N and PTI, and personal egos or biases had not

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Crowning Glory

Pakistan has had its share of tragedy in recent years, with the world's eyes always being trained on Pakistan since the last few years, may it be the rage of the neighboring Afghan war, or the Drone attacks and the Taliban, Pakistan has been a window on the biggest news stories of the young millennium which is just a decade old. Even though Pakistan is known the world around for being a pro terrorist, war encouraging country with no culture and backward theories, however I can assure you that these news has almost no reality strings attached to it, on the other hand Pakist

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