Dear Reader, With every passing day, hopelessness & despair seem to deepen in Pakistan. Every year brings a cluster of more bad news. 2013 started off with strikes and price hikes. Daytime robberies, incidents of snatching, kidnappings for ransom or otherwise, unprecedented number of killings for political purposes or otherwise, etc were some of [...]

  Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! People are already getting fed up of this slogan but yet it holds a deeply intrinsic value for them that they themselves are not fully aware of. Man has this inherent longing for change, a move FROM the status quo TO ‘something’ else, something obviously better than the previous ways, as [...]

  Q. When did you actually decide that you were made for politics? Ans. In Pakistan, to excel in politics you either need to be a landlord or otherwise, popular. I couldn’t be a landlord. So when luck made me popular after the World Cup, I decided that politics was the way to go. And [...]

  Sigh…yet another incident of grief, another cold-blooded murder, and the darkness prevails… Shahzeb Khan, a youth aged 20, gunned down by an influential “WaderayKa Beta”, for guarding his sister’s honour. Whatever happened in the last six to seven weeks, since Shahzeb’s murder… everyone is aware of it. A Facebook page titled In Memory of [...]

  The end of 2012 was marked with the predictable re-election of Obama and the long sought but totally useless non-member status awarded to Palestine. The world rejoiced as they forgot how useless and lack luster Obama’s previous term had been and how everyone wished it would be over soon. Also the in the same [...]

   Our media masked the years-long, continuing massacre in Karachi, while the claim of being neutral is proved by broadcasting the complete marathon speech of the murderer, entitling “HARMONY and PEACE”.  Obama strongly opposes personal handguns but perpetrates massive wars in Afghanistan, Yemen & elsewhere. Pakistan openly provides air-bases and intelligence support for American drones [...]

  So here we are again, finally the next installment of our magazine. It has been a great few weeks leading up to this new edition. A few things have changed, but many still remain the same! There is still absolutely nothing about the Syrian revolution in the Pakistani news and media coverage and the [...]

  Times have changed. The world is swiftly moving away from the traditional media of newspapers, journals, books, magazines & television channels to the contemporary virtual world of social media comprising of the Facebooks, Twitters, YouTubes & blogs. From the successful Egyptian Facebook Revolution to the failed Iranian Twitter Uprising and now to the in-progress [...]

  It’s amusing to note how mindlessness seems to plague every aspect of our society. No one seems to question why all Pakistanis have a very similar, predictable way of going about their life. From the social pressure, to graduate by the time you turn 24, to getting married and having kids before you turn [...]

  What is the difference between a banking system that siphons off your gold over time and a group of thieves that takes it all away in one night? Both guilty as charged! What is the difference between a government backed industrialist, actively participating in deforestation & a company that designs & develops all sorts [...]