You know it’s going to be a bad day when you wake up to news of bomb blasts in two of Pakistan’s main cities. At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 were injured (Geo News put the number higher, at 70) when a suicide bomber targeted a Shiite procession near Bhatti gate [...]
Archive for January 25th, 2011
Bomb Blasts Strike Lahore & Karachi
Posted in News Briefs on January 25, 2011 | 8 Comments »
These Are The Stories My Nani Told
Posted in Op-Eds on January 25, 2011 | 44 Comments »
I have always loved listening to stories. But my favorite kind were never make believe, the ones woven into the fabric of fairy tales. They were the ones that unveiled pieces of my family’s history, that contextualized the very young histories of Pakistan and Bangladesh, where my father and mother are respectively from. My favorite [...]
