Spring- The Message of Diversity and Hope

The Moon is staring upon me like a frenzied lover, stars blush as the rose blooms in the cheek of a young fair maiden. The night is ticking by- tick tock tick tock- but sleep is far away from these swollen eyes. My beginner’s mind is like the brook drinking in its first drop from [...]

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Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy ‘I Salute You

In today’s society a country is valued by its women’s progress. Developing support to progress doesn’t occur naturally, it’s a concept that must be nurtured every day. It is necessary to replace  fear with hope and I think it is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress; thence, it is a moral responsibility of [...]

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Shedding Silent Tears

Winter has finally arrived. The end of the year is approaching; very soon we will enter into another year of this century with bundle of hopes. As usual, I’m standing at balcony gazing at the  sky, observing th calm sea, listening to heartwarming melodies that drive me crazy while, the mildness of breeze and the [...]

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Charlie Chaplin’s Famous Speech

Charlie Chaplin has left something awe-inspiring  to the world, to ponder. He was  famous for his comedic monologues actually pulled off astounding powerful speech of all the time. On Facebook hub – where so many stories in so many frames and sizes, hues and tones are coming together, suddenly my gaze happened to drift up [...]

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I cried, as a Pakistani

Published in The Asians UK The dreams of our founding fathers have been murdered. The expectations held by most Pakistanis yearning for a democratic government have been crushed into pieces. There are cries and tears amongst my people. There is an air of melancholy, an air of anguish when one meets  the people or surfs [...]

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When Little Stories are Big Random Thoughts

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will become too late”- R.W.Emerson Below you will find some stories that are taken from Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan’s articles, which are being published weekly. Some of them are just very small, simple kind deeds. But even the smallest, most simple [...]

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Pin-drop Moments!!!

The moments that have made history and leave us speechless are scripted here, which are taken from various sources. The  sheer pin drop silence during meeting, interview or personal debate. Few incidents are: A story is told that one public challenge to Rumi came from a Muslim dignitary, Qonavi, who confronted Rumi before an audience. [...]

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Social Networking- A boon or a curse!

First published in Chitraltimes on 6th April, 2011 With time we humans are able to build mega projects; huge highways, bridges and finally we reached the moon but our thinking becomes increasingly shallower each day. Our foresightedness becomes vagrant possibly because we are being enslaved by the secret societies. We are able to make bombs [...]

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Family Fun Fest!

“ Religion  is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, and it is to be humble.” Ralph Waldo Emerson   I’m always entangled and influenced by my surroundings. The people who endure me say that I’m a sufferer of wanderlust in the desert of thoughts because I deeply [...]

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Be Volunteer Not Valentine

I awoke early in the morning and noticed the lovely blue sky, saw the beauty of the river. “How peaceful it is”, my sister said. I was having a cup of tea reading Sunday newspapers and finished reading with many questions in my mind. It is too depressing to read newspapers. The headlines reek of mass [...]

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