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US airport panic: Stopped because I was carrying a book called ‘The Taliban’
The mayhem surrounding the busy terminal of the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport was evaded by the striking and almost pin drop silence as the check-in machine - more precisely known as the...
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A doctor’s worst nightmare
It had been a pretty gruelling 30 hours. Her hands shook as she poured out a cup of tea for herself and tried to relax. Four patients had been admitted with final stage liver disease, the previous...
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10 things I hate about being attacked at work
1. The fear. The fear that whoever is chucking grenades and has been firing bullets for the last 10 minutes is about to enter the building. Should I be hiding under my desk? Or should I be leading my...
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Home is where the heart(less) is
April 25, 2014 Friday, 4:08pm: I finally check my regular worldly news and social media updates. After a hectic day of running errands, wading in the rain and running around for meetings here and...
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Chaos, panic, disorder and Dr Tahirul Qadri
Dr Tahirul Qadri plans to come back for his yearly visit on June 23, 2014. Now all of us are aware of the security given to our politicians – everyone is the president and treated like royalty with the...
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Where did Shab-e-Barat go?
Shab-e-Barat used to be my favourite festival. Yes, ‘festival’ and like all festivals, Shab-e-Barat was entertaining, fun and spiritual. And for a crazy kid growing up in Lahore during the 80s and 90s,...
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Life had been drained out of her…
She looked like someone had drained all her strength. I could not stand it anymore, so I closed my browser and made my way towards her. She looked dull and weak. I observed her silently, praying to God...
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Mr Prime Minister, is your government really the emblem of economic progress?
Forget, for a moment, that your panic and desperation resulted in the nation giving unnecessary attention to Tahirul Qadri. Forget the fact that once again the law enforcers in Punjab, under the...
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Humanity dies as Peshawar bleeds
This morning, as I opened my social media newsfeed, I was left completely mortified. At around 11.45 am, news about five to six militants who had carried out an attack at the Army Public School (APS)...
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When I had to save myself from depression
My colleague said something (not) funny again and the room roared with laughter. Knowing that I did not share the mood in the room, I grabbed my tea and headed for the corridor. That long corridor with...
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Series 3 The Little Princess Part 1 Blushing with fear
Women are creatures of the spring. Their hearts do not beat, they flutter. Their dispositions are sweet like honey and their eyes deep as oceans, their smiles light up their surrounding and their...
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Pakistan’s inhumanity is robbing our children of their innocence
The other day, my son wrote a story about a king and a prisoner who wanted to kill the king. The prisoner made an extraordinary gun and wanted to shoot the king to avenge his imprisonment. After two...
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