No one ever says, 'Beta, it’s OK if you don’t win, what mattered is that you gave 110%'. Everyone just wants to win.

Who’s Imran Khan? The school athlete everyone has a crush on. Who's Musharraf? The bad military guy who drank...

The counsellor is annoyed, the teachers recommendations are due. How many extracurricular are you going to put down?

Dogs are not regular pets in Pakistan. They are a a wagging tail symbol of dirtiness, second only to pigs.

Who gets married at 18? Apparently, a sizable chunk in Pakistan - it isn't uncommon or shocking.

I so wish my chacha owned The Express Tribune so I could change their online comments policy, but alas...

How do you know what to ban or even how much you should ban? Where do you draw the line?

I think of Eid in terms of samosas and overbearing relatives. I like to think of politics in terms of apples/bananas.

Not once did anyone in my class think it was all right to be “bad” at Urdu - Urdu is very much here to stay.

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