Miyawaki Urban Forest spreading over 100 kanals to be inaugurated on 4th of August in Saggian, Lahore on August 3, 2021Dear Pakistanis: While it makes me happy that Prime Minister Imran Khan and PTI are thinking long term and have some – let me stress the word ‘some’ – vision in terms of the environment while inaugurating a 100 kanal forest, sadly, this is not the only change needed to save ‘Our Planet’ as David […]
Book Review: Wanted Women: Faith, lies and the war on terror, the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui on July 26, 2021Reading this enthralling book by Deborah Scroggins was as if looking at myself through the lives of these two women. In some eerie fashion, my life resonates with those of these two women. Deborah has juxtaposed both women in such a neutral manner – tracing from what can be called the origin of each woman’s […]
Dreams from my father: a Pakistani perspective on July 26, 2021I picked up the thick book written by Obama thinking that the prose would flow and it would be an easy read. I’m sad to report: it wasn’t. The writing was rather terse and legalistic in my viewpoint and at several points it seemed that the descriptions that the author was making of a party, […]