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While India is still perceived as enemy number one, the Pakistan military and the ISI are now committed to fighting the Taliban and their allies.

Our politicians, leaders and people like myself should be thankful that we live in a country where the vast majority of those who suffer in poverty ask so little of us.

Those who rule this country have no real stakes in it, the rest are stuck in it and the small minority that has the means and vision to bring ‘change' have abandoned it.

Trapping anyone in the vicious cobweb of blasphemy is easy in Pakistan. No government, even secular Bhutto, has been able to do anything to change the controversial law.

With popular religious opinion by people's side, perpetrators found good reason for subjecting the two "filthy dakoos" to sanctioned justice.

Returning to Pakistan from Columbia University’s School of Journalism was a reality check. The job market everywhere is in a devastating slump.

I think people would agree that this month does not feel like a month of blessing. Even before the country was hit by floods, most of our population had been living hand to mouth.

When my cousins found out I had broken up with my girlfriend they insisted on fixing me up with a good 'desi' girl. The lesson I learned? Never date in Pakistan again!

Are these people animals? Is this the true face of a nation so despicable that even God has forsaken them? Or is this a mirror to our society - to us as individuals.

Concerts are hardly held at all. When they do take place it all about string pulling and money making. Weren't underground musicians supposed to be opposed to commercialism?