Match Point

There is a chance that the Pakistan government will block BlackBerry services completely as after 9/11 there has been an increase in monitoring electronic communications.

This August seems cursed with devastation, bloodshed and hopelessness from Karachi to Khyber. The summer has been filled with devastation. It is time to unite.

Pakistan is in a serious crisis. Neither the government nor the international community will ever be able to match what you and I can do for Pakistan.

I came across a picture which showed a young man sitting on a charpoy with a knife in his hand and blood on his shalwar. He was posing like a hero, having just killed his sister.

Some of the things our countrymen have done in the aftermath of the flash floods are stark examples of how far people will go to benefit from other peoples’ misery.

There are some who leave their footsteps behind in the shores of time, whose memory remains etched in the hearts and minds of people even years after their souls have departed.

Traditional Ramazan fare has fed the greed of hoarders and profiteers. But this year man made shortages have been eclipsed by a natural destruction of unbelievable magnitude.

No amount of theory can prepare one for the real deal - closed schools, girls pulled out of school, or trying to convince men that education will not impact values.

People have no clean drinking water. Do you know what they are doing? Drinking flood water. Soon scorpions and snakes will emerge from the cesspools as well.

A senior journalist and past colleague from Geo days woke me in the morning with the following SMS: Are you getting 2007 flashbacks?