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DESTINATION: Pakistan
Moin Khan’s Patriotic & Inspirational road trip from California to Lahore On the night of 9th June last year, a young Pakistani man packed his bags, ran a final performance check on his Honda CBR 600 F4i motorbike, and went to sleep in his bed in his home in San Francisco, California. The next morning,
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The Not-So-Reluctant Meesha Shafi
Who doesn’t know Meesha Shafi? The woman who brought back Arif Lohar and red mohawks; gave local women the confidence to wear wife-beaters and showed young mothers everywhere that getting married and having children does not render one’s career inutile—that it is only if you go chasing after your dreams that you’ll be able
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Gypsum Magicians
When I was a kid, I dreamt of becoming a sculptor. I would buy processed clay from the local art shop and spend hours trying to mold it into something—anything—that my parents would look at and be compelled to marvel at their child’s remarkable creative prowess. As the years went by, I grew up to
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Koocha-e-Saqafat
Every Sunday evening, one of Karachi’s busiest roads undergoes a silent makeover that transforms it from a bedlam of domineering vehicles that emanate poison into a dais for tranquility, art and culture. The harsh discordant honks and the inherent reek of psychosomatic chaos that are native to the area are miraculously replaced by soft music
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KU Blues
University of Karachi (KU) is not only one of the most depressing universities of Pakistan; it is also perhaps one of the most testing. And I don’t mean that in an academic way. If the dry, unwelcoming terrain and shabby, unmaintained infrastructure doesn’t put you off the academe entirely, the administrative staff’s cold and condescending