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Saving lives should not be this hard
I was enjoying a wonderful meal at the new food street on the pier with my family last week when I heard people gasp as two men carried another young man to the green sidewalk. They dropped him and...
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Edhi: “I’m not God, just a humanist”
This video shows a discussion with the philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi. The viewer is shown an ordinary day in his life and taken in to his office. One observes the incredibly humble life-style lived...
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Want rescue? Please hold indefinitely
I was standing in the kitchen with my mother when we heard a vehicle come to a screeching halt on the main road we live across. As I peered out of the window, I saw the red car slam into what looked...
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A mother, not a meal ticket
Enroute to the hospital where I interned, I would pass a woman who sat on the footpath right across from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital's new emergency ward. She was very old and frail and it was easy to...
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Every time you buy a stolen phone, you take a life
Early last Sunday I was awakened by a call from a cousin. “My nephew, Abdul Ghaffar, has been killed.” Considerably shaken, I said, “What? How?” A reply came my way, “Cell phone robber shot him when he...
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The Prado effect
Adam’s story I backed out of the driveway, closely monitoring the environment around me. This was the first time I was driving such a large vehicle and it was safe to assume that there was a very steep...
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10 things you probably didn’t know about Pakistan
“Pakistan is going through difficult times.” “The future looks bleak.” “Hope seems to be a luxury we cannot afford.” Statements such as these are common nowadays. However, I tend to disagree. I don’t...
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Rocks and ambulances
“Couldn’t we have gone to a better mechanic, gotten a new and reliable battery, so this wouldn’t have happened?” “I don’t know. This is not the first time this has happened, anyway.” “What? How can you...
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Why do Pakistanis block roads, cars and houses, in a rush to attend prayer?
A popular Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim hadith quotes Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as saying that once prayer has started, Muslims are not supposed to rush to join in quickly. Instead, they must proceed to...
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