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Programming note 13 Sep 2011 | 03:25 pm
The blog has moved here. Special thanks to Alex for making the timeline pretty.
I don’t think we’re in Karachi anymore. 14 Aug 2011 | 03:55 pm
I have a piece of stale barfi in my fridge. It has been there for six days. I know it is old. And I know, that every time I carefully unwrap it to take a tiny bite, and wrap it back up, I am probably...
Everyday is a winding..wait, what? 13 Jun 2011 | 02:09 pm
I apologize, to the few who still follow this blog, for the lack of updates. For the most part, I have been preoccupied with work thanks to the gift that keeps on giving aka US-Pakistan relations. I r...
30 days, some very long nights. 25 Apr 2011 | 01:51 pm
I’ve been in Washington, DC for exactly a month now. And one thing that you have to do if you work here is networking. Which is an art form in itself. The networking is brutal (and tiring), and after ...
The Bangladesh Diaries – II 21 Mar 2011 | 01:06 pm
So I wrote a short piece about my visit to the Liberation War Museum for Express Tribune: As a Pakistani schooled in a sanitised version of history, the museum makes one cringe with revulsion. Skulls...
Speechless in Karachi 8 Mar 2011 | 01:39 am
This morning I woke up, remembered Shahbaz Bhatti was dead all over again, and was quite looking forward to spending my day in a good, old fashioned funk. Then, I saw this on a pole in Zamzama, Karac...
The Collaborator 28 Feb 2011 | 10:56 pm
“Here’s the abandoned one, the left-out one, the one who must tell the story. He now goes down to check, to rummage through the pieces of those who left. He’s the only one now.” Please ignore everyth...
The Bangladesh Diaries – I 20 Feb 2011 | 06:33 pm
Its only when you fly across India to get to Bangladesh [formerly East Pakistan], that you realize how cruelly the lines that partitioned the Subcontinent had been drawn. Who, in their right mind, wou...
Eight days. 12 Jan 2011 | 08:59 pm
Eight days ago, Salmaan Taseer was shot dead. Eight days later, Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin, is being hailed as a hero and speeches lauding Qadri are being publicly made. Threats are hurled at anyone ...
RIP Governor. 5 Jan 2011 | 04:23 am
This is Pakistan, reporting from the abyss it has just been pushed into. Taseer’s assassination; even though assassination is too mild a word to describe it, the correct term should be cold-blooded m...
