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Day 6 of the Lyari operation raged on, with fierce exchanges of bullets between the police force and the ‘gangsters’. Probably fed up of the situation, some of the residents tried to pretend thing...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 23, 2012 | 16 Comments
“Write the name of the prophet who came after the Prophet Essa (Jesus)?” Two of the four options: Hazrat Abrahim; Hazrat Mohammad. I’ve jumped the gun again. Let me...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
At around 1 am on Sunday morning, about ‘400-500’ (media reports), around 150 (Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar), heavily armed men stormed into a heavy guarded Bannu jail and freed 3...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 14, 2012 | 8 Comments
There seems to be no relief for the Lyariites, as the oldest area of the metropolis Karachi throbs, oozing blood. The population of Lyari is engaged in a mental, emotional and physical conflict, but t...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 12, 2012 | 4 Comments
Waiting for a loved one is an awful feeling. But if you have to wait for them, knowing that they are in a very dangerous place, is a feeling that cannot be explained in words. You live and die every s...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 9, 2012 | 9 Comments
After Dr Chishty’s conviction, his daughter Amna Chishty contacted Aman ki Asha in April 2011 for help, requesting that he be brought home alive. Shortly after, Aman ki Asha – a joint peace ini...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 5, 2012 | 16 Comments
My God Pakistanis must have done something right to be bestowed by intellectuals and thinkers like dear Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The gentleman always manages to clear up the ambiguities tha...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 04 2, 2012 | 2 Comments
Yesterday we bought new bicycles for the kids as I think no childhood is complete without a bicycle. Who can forget the scary moments when one learns to ride a two wheeler sans the training wheels...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 03 28, 2012 | 13 Comments
A dozen vehicles torched, several killed and injured and a metropolis like Karachi was brought to a standstill once again following the murder of a political party member by a party worker of th...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 03 23, 2012 | 10 Comments
It was a Saturday ----- Mar 17 to be precise ------ when the city of Karachi was shut down in protest against extortionists. It was a good move…but what about the fact that some of us work even on s...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 03 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
‘Koel’ written by renowned pioneer of modern Urdu fiction Dr Enver Sajjad and directed by Kulsoom Aftab was presented at the ongoing NAPA Performing Arts Festival held in Karachi. This play...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 02 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
Dreams and visions are an integral part of a person’s life, and these have sometimes helped people to achieve the unachievable. Great leaders like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar ...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 02 8, 2012 | 15 Comments
It appears as if every political leader of Pakistan is certain that the Pakistani masses (all 180 million of them) support him/her. Some of them even dare anyone to challenge this certainty, although ...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 01 31, 2012 | 20 Comments
The Maya Khan issue was waiting to erupt sooner or later, and I am glad it did. At least now people, and hopefully the media authorities, will realise that the attitude of “in the media everything g...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 01 25, 2012 | 4 Comments
As children, we tried to con our parents into letting us calling in sick at school. We used the excuse of “I am probably coming down with some rare tropical disease that could kill me if I got out o...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 01 21, 2012 | 14 Comments
Our prime minister seems ecstatic that his government has lasted as long as it has. And maybe he has reason to be. He proudly said recently that he was the longest serving prime minister of Pakistan, ...
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