Let’s do quarantining playing games, losing hours! By: Bushra Zafar Khan on January 1, 2021Living in a world, where achieving your dreams is not a piece of cake but a hard nut to crack. Here, enjoy the world of your dreams, as the biggest champ. Unleash your energy in this fanciful world, where fun never ends. Imagination has no limits. It costs nothing rather gives you a blow to […]
Emotions, an enigma By: Natalia Mehmood on November 28, 2020Emotions can be defined in many different ways by people, depending on their perspective and understanding of this word. Some make a distinction between emotions and feelings saying that a feeling is the response part of the emotion and that an emotion includes the interpretation, the perception, and the response or feeling related to the […]
Mourning 100 Days of Kashmir Lockdown By: Noor ul Ain Ali on November 12, 2019In occupied Kashmir, military lockdown and restrictions continue on 100th consecutive day today in Kashmir valley and Muslim majority areas of Jammu and Ladakh following the August 5 Indian illegal decision to abrogate special status of occupied Kashmir. The whole world has been waiting to see when the curfew would be lifted and when the […]
Ladies, you can divorce your husbands By: Noor ul Ain Ali on September 23, 2019Do you know Islam gives the right to divorce women if the husband delegates it in the marriage contract? Both the mainstream sects of Islam, Sunnis and the Shias recognize the concept of Talak-i-tafweez or delegated divorce. The Muslim husband is free to delegate his power of pronouncing divorce to his wife or any person. […]
Career choice and our society By: Qurat ul Ain Ali on September 23, 2019Being part of a society where poking one’s nose in other’s business and giving out muft mashvaray is considered a moral obligation; I feel it’s my duty to tell others what I think they should do. So here’s my unsolicited advice; Career Choice For students who have just got their higher secondary school result and […]
Don’t tell my mother I want to travel around Pakistan By: Fatimah Mehr on April 18, 2019Every millennial is familiar with Instagram and the trending ‘backpackers’, ‘finders’, ‘wanderers’ and ‘solo travelers’ on this easy-to-use app who explore the unexplored and travel without a care in the world. A more rising trend is the increasingly positive projection of Pakistan as a ‘tourist-friendly’ country on the social media. So me, an average millennial […]
Plastic versus humans! By: Ranim Perachai on April 8, 2019An intertwined habitat of approximately 8.7 million species of animals is the planet we collectively call home. In an intricate fashion, each species is dependent on the other for meeting survival needs; some connected directly while the rest not-so-overtly prominent in their connection. This dependence has seen a new façade with over-exploitation of the Earth’s […]
How to stop over thinking By: Zaresh Ernest on April 5, 2019While sitting in with a group of friends, it is a commonly asked question, ”yaar how to make myself stop overthinking?” and the conversation continues on how the person is unable to sleep through the night due to this mind disorder. Overthinking is a curse for sure, it can keep you worried for things that […]
It’s time we all had latrines By: Rabab Jafar on April 2, 2019“ ‘I’ve endured hardship my entire life but I’m going to do everything there is to ensure that my granddaughters don’t live through the same.’ Haseena, a spunky 50 year old grandmother of three from Bangolabanon, a village organization in Birkin, Shikarpur is an enthusiastic participant of the transect walk through her village, even if […]
Lyari Girls Cafe making dreams come true By: Seerat Shehzad on March 30, 2019Lyari has been notorious because of the fights between different ethnic groups. With very less check and balance by the law enforcing agencies, the crime rate in this area was at the peak. Lyari is an area where even men were terrified to move from one place to another but these girls came out as […]