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Study abroad or not : Double standards of the young and smart
Pakistani students applying to US universities are usually only part-time US haters.
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Is it asli? : Eating ‘Karachi’s mashoor Peshawari Ice-cream’...in Peshawar
Copyrighting restaurants is useless; you'll spot Hanifias, Nimco's and Agha Juices who claim to be the 'real' thing.
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Are you a part of Slackistan?
With things like floods and poverty going on in Pakistan I just couldn't relate to Slackistan at all.
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Drowning and helpless
With the water level inside the locked car rising exponentially and the rain thundering outside, I was stranded.
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Eid Mubarak, from Jinnah International
There are really only 2 places in Karach where you can breathe and think properly -the sea, and the airport.
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Great grades mean nothing if you don’t have a chaperone - or a Y chromosome
No matter how many "As" they get, some girls know they will never get permission to study overseas.
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A product of the 2000's tries to make sense of 1980 Karachi violence redux
Would it be easy for an apolitical, unethnic teenager today to recognise Karachi from two decades ago?
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Aisee zameen aur aasmaan
Songs aren’t angry op-eds, or critical talk shows. They are unapologetically, feel good. Invest in some singing.
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Rozas and results
Even if you are not religious, you still mark Ramazan.Come exam time, hardcore atheists drop down to offer prayers.
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The disservice of forgetting
The Air Blue crash killed 152, the floods 2,000.But all that was back in 2010...