A Memoir of Partition
From the Blog odysseuslahori On the twentieth day of March 2008, I headed home for the first time in my life. I was fifty-six years and a month old. Walking east across the border gates at Wagah I was on my way to the fulfilment of a family pietas of very long standing. I was going to a home I had never known; a home in a foreign land, a land that state propaganda wanted me to believe was enemy territory. But I knew it as a country where my ancestors had lived and died over countless generations. That was the home where the hearth kept the warmth of a fire first kindled by a matriarch many hundred years, nay, a few thousand years, ago and which all of a sudden had been extinguished in a cataclysm in 1947. In that great upheaval, in a singular moment in time, that home ceased to be home. One part of the fapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
The price of denial
From the Blog mehmalThe year, 2017, turned out to be quite tumultuous in terms of political events in Pakistan. The new year did not start on an encouraging note either. Donald Trump's first tweet in 2018 was about Pakistan. He tweeted: "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!" One can say that this was not unexpected. In August 2017, President Trump had warned Pakistan. He had said: "We can no longer be silent about Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist organisations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond... Pakistan has much tpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Banned Photos from PTV Dramas!
From the Blog pakistanimodelsFrom the blog Lahore XXX : Banned Photos from PTV Dramas!, (part of the PakistaniModels.blogspot.com Network) To see pictures, click the headline above.pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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