Pakistan

On Pakistan

August 18, 2010

Three weeks ago, flooding started in Pakistan, killing over 1,500 people and affecting millions of people so far. Articles say that about 1/5 of Pakistan is under water. And yet, despite the dire need of funds, there has been a slow response to this disaster. There has been a lot of discussion about this so [...]

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Lack of Logic

December 29, 2009

Yesterday, there was a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan in which a someone blew himself up at a Shia mosque on the day of Ashura. This is just one of many suicide bombings that have occurred in Pakistan as of late. I can’t understand this. Not only the killing, attempted or otherwise, of innocent people, [...]

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Am I Ready To Go Back to Pakistan – Year 2

November 1, 2009

Last year, I wrote my first ever Am I Ready to Back to Pakistan entry so I thought I would continue the trend with another blog post. It has now been two years since I went on a trip to Pakistan with my family. I discussed the issues I had in the entry I referenced [...]

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Pakistani Dramas Reflection of Pakistani Life? Crazy.

March 1, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, Dish Network offers a variety of international channels that many Pakistani and Indians in the West salivate over. We have about 3 or 4 of those channels ourselves, as my mom watches a lot of Pakistani dramas. The siblings and I don’t really care for these dramas because [...]

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My Single-Serving Friends

February 10, 2009

For some reason, I was randomly thinking about my flight home from Pakistan back in 2007. I’m not quite sure why, but my thoughts turned to the people I talked to while making my way back to the States, my single-serving friends. On the flight from Karachi to San Francisco, I made 3 single-serving friends [...]

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Am I Ready to Go Back?

October 30, 2008

Beginning now, I will introduce a new feature in this blog, a once a year entry in which I ponder about whether or not I am ready to back to Pakistan. This time last year, my family and I were in Pakistan. I spent more than $1,500 and 2.5 weeks of my life to go [...]

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Streets of Karachi

April 10, 2008

So Flickr just added the ability for pro users to upload videos up to 90 seconds. This works for me as I don’t really want to use YouTube for the things I’ve taped using my digital camera and I can’t bring myself to upload them to Facebook. Most of videos are of my nephew but [...]

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