Caught in photos by a photographer, Jiah Ali, the blue eyes of a Chai Wala (Tea Seller) were enough to capture the attention of everyone in Pakistan and India. At the time when Chai Wala went viral, the heat was intense between the two neighboring countries due to Kashmir issue. […]
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Why Youngsters Get More Influenced By Celebrities?
If you repeat something enough of times even if it is wrong, people will ultimately start believing you. That is what I’ve always heard. But I personally believe that it doesn’t matter what has been said. What really matters is ‘Who said it!’. But what has been said, does it […]
What My Textbook Says And What I Think
While going through my Pakistan Studies textbook today few sentences caught my attention; those few sentences which I have been rote learning since grade one. But today they looked really different to me as if it’s my first time reading them. It felt really hard understanding them. The paragraph was […]
Can PSL Help Bring International Cricket Back to Pakistan?
As I heard the news of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team at Lahore in 2009, I mourned the imminent death of international cricket in Pakistan. This deadly attack simply meant no international team would be willing to come and play any sports in Pakistan. What was most embarrassing […]
Life of An Addict’s Mother
Two days after we had shifted to our new house, few women came to our house for an interview as my mother had put up an ad for a maid. As her second in command, I was told to keep an eye on everyone as maids usually tend to be […]
The Importance of Sex Education in Pakistan
Education without a doubt can be termed as the core of a civilization. It aids in developing an individual and gives him all the information needed to live a healthy and protected life. The same goes for sex education as well, which sadly, is the most neglected part of our educational […]
Parrots: More Than Pets
Parrots are also known as Psittacines. There are 402 species of birds that make up the order Psittaciformes. They are found in most tropical and subtropical regions but are also found in other region too. In South-Asia, mostly Rose-ringed parakeet and Alexandrian parrot are found. The rose-ringed are green parrots with Red circle around their neck while Alexandrian parrots are […]
Overcoming the Curse of Poverty
Poverty is a state where one feels totally helpless. It is an extraordinary situation when a man feels absence of fundamental things required to live one’s life such as shelter, food, clothes, medical facility. There are many reasons of poverty such overpopulation, absence of business, shaky economy, and lack of proper […]
The death of journalism in Pakistan
Since a decade Pakistan has been affected by militancy that cost it thousands of innocent human lives. But one group of the society that bore the brunt of this on-going militancy is the journalists who are covering from the conflict zones of Tribal belt and Baluchistan. Pakistan stands number second […]
Population Growth: A Catalyst For World Destruction
Population is the number of people, living at a particular area (country/region) at a particular time, according to sociological point of view. The current human population growth is something unprecedented in the history of the world. If we look back at the history of human population growth, it can be […]