Later when I sat there tweeting about my new breakfast cereal having far too many chocolate chips, I felt really small. I've spent the last year being extremely grateful for God's kindness and blessings, well aware that I've been...
Tag - Pakistan
“You must be missing Pakistan a lot!” Said an acquaintance I bumped into here in Cambridge, when I told her I had recently moved back here. My instinctive response was an emphatic no. “Not at all”, I...
An article popped up all over my Twitter feed this morning on how working women are treated shabbily by Pakistani organizations which, according to the writer, do nothing to accommodate pregnant women. Since it was being tweeted...
‘Twas a long holiday weekend. And after three straight days of feeling under the weather, bingeing on ice cream and a Breaking Bad marathon, we thought we should venture out and do some sightseeing outside Cantt and Gulberg...
“Pakistan would get the status of Least Developed Country (LDC) in 2014 and subsequently get the opportunity to export duty-free textile products to European countries.” So begins a news article that appeared in the Business...
Living abroad can really make you lazy in some ways. For me, shopping from the comfort of my couch is one of the indulgences which I have really grown used to. So much so that going out to stores and trying on stuff is a...
So I keep telling my husband that Pakistan is a pretty liberal place, in my attempt to convince him that there is still hope for the country. That is, liberal for a Muslim country. Yes, I know, all kinds of atrocious things...
The biggest threat to feminism is women’s attitudes themselves. Yes, it is true. At the mention of feminism, mass rolling of eyes may have ensued. Many actually seem to think feminism is a bad word. “Kaafi feminist hai”...
Karachi is a city of paradoxical coexistence. The immense diversity of this city, the existence of so many different social classes and ethnicities, fills me with immense pride. Agreed, there is a very dark side to this...
The incumbent government has successfully eliminated poverty. Let me clarify. Eliminated only from official national statistics. Officially, there is no recent data on poverty. A few days ago, I was in need of recent poverty...