Welcome to Burger-speak. We don’t laugh, we LOL. We take English words in Urdu context, mix and match as we please.

People love making a big deal about Harry - even us, desis.

Pakistani expats are a strange breed. Their passports are as green as yours and mine but something sets them apart...

Poor Islamiat: It comes in the form of neatly colour-coded textbooks ensuring my beliefs are distinctively Pakistani.

For some people, Nazimabad is as ‘backward’ as Fata. It’s destitute like Sudan. It’s in the middle of nowhere.

The AKU summer volunteer programme is fascinating. 3,000 students applied this year but barely 60 were chosen.

While most were tracking breaking news I was busy doing something stiflingly boring - studying.

“It’s all over,” a friend sobbed, clutching me. Nothing will hit us more than the prospect of leaving school.

My best friend wants to be an air force pilot. She's lucky to have a dream to follow, most of us are just confused!

Part of being a student is being equated with some clichéd exam story. Welcome to the mocks.