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Competition-I Want That Too!
Published July 28, 2013 - One Comment
It is interesting to observe in traditional cultures, especially in the Muslim world, that the marketplaces are comprised of rows of businesses dealing with the same product. In America, it would be considered foolish to open a business in proximity to a business already selling the same p ...
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Dear Sister!
Published June 5, 2013 - 6 Comments
Dedicated to a Very Dear Friend, You Know Who You Are. My dear sister! Know that you leave me distressed, that my heart weeps for you! Know that when you cry, I cry! Oh my sister! We may be far but know that I feel your hurt, your pain is mine! That your tears fall […]
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Green with Envy
Published July 28, 2012 - 4 Comments
Dedicated to Fatima Altaf. (no she`s not green, we promise:P ) Be Warned! This will probably be a very mathematical post. Hasad: The worst of the diseases of the heart, The first of sins in the skies and the first of sins on Earth. (Dramatic much? Soaps tend to agree with us on this, judgi ...
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Happily Ever After?Daddy`s Bank Account Begs to Differ
Published July 22, 2012 - 20 Comments
This is a guest post by Sarah Ahmad. The writer has done her MBA from University of Peshawar and is an avid reader of all things readable (yes, soap wrappers ARE readable :p) and a not so prolific writer (regrettably so) of everything writeable. The writer takes an active interest in culin ...
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It’s That Time of The Year Again!
Published May 7, 2011 - 6 Comments
That time when I start seeing red, literally and figuratively. That time when “love is in the air”, again literally and well figure-ivly (If u know what I mean, think curves;) ). There was a time when Valentine`s Day was relatively unknown in the Land of the Pure, when us kids used t ...
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Let the Heart Speak-Madressah Life
Published May 9, 2011 - 5 Comments
The moment we outgrow our frocks and piggy-tails period we start talking big. Our ideas and our thoughts may be as silly-sounding as “! L!kE 2 w@lK iN tHe r@!N so nObOdY c@n see my te@rS” or they may emerge as senselessly passionate rhetoric like “Why b0tHer to F!T in wHeN you c@n st ...
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Love or Arranged? The Inner Workings of The Rishta Brigade
Published September 19, 2012 - 9 Comments
This is a guest post by a writer who wishes to be known simply as Jawa. In her own words: “I`m doing my BBA, living at home, lone sister to a horde of brothers (5,masha`Allah), enforcer of justice in my crazy household. Scratch that. Describe me as an ordinary person. I’ve al ...
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MAKKAH-THE BELOVED LAND
Published June 29, 2012 - 19 Comments
**Guest Post By Ayesha Zaka, an MPhil student ( Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.** These are a few pages from my diary. I wrote them six years back-when I was 17. I penned them down only so that I could preserve priceless memories. Even today, readi ...
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Privacy and Islam
Published May 7, 2011 - No Comments
O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own until you have asked leave and saluted the inmates thereof. That is better for you, that you may be heedful. And if you find no one therein, do not enter them until you are given permission. And if it be said to you, ‘Go […]
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REAL MEN Give Mehr
Published August 20, 2011 - 5 Comments
Picture this: You are sitting on your new four poster bed, with your bride (also new), being forced to endure “Ye Zindagi hai” or some other such soap on your, yes your new 42 inch LED screen. If you are a man you can probably think up at least three better things to do with […]
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Such Are the Days…
Published April 7, 2013 - One Comment
It appears it`s been ages since I have had this urge. This urge to write, to feel the swish of the pen flowing across a page, a page that only moments ago was blank. Oh the smell of paper and the feel of ideas just flowing out of an ink pen! And these winter nights! […]
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The “I RoxXxX Atittude”- Arrogance and Its Many Off-Shoots
Published May 15, 2011 - 21 Comments
For this article I thought I would talk small and quote big. Throughout my life I was a care-free work-little-have-fun-all-year-round kinda student who somehow managed to score 80-90% regardless […]
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The Hot New Mehram in Her Life…
Published February 10, 2012 - 26 Comments
**Dedicated to my awesome new family (masha`Allah). May Allah protect you all, give you everything you want in this world and the next<3 ** I have been married a month now alhumdolillah and of course I now consider myself an expert on the subject, believing from the bottom of my heart ...
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The Nation That Cried Wolf- 101 Lies We tell Everyday
Published June 12, 2011 - 17 Comments
To the Shopkeeper – I have no change To the Teacher – The computer ate my assignment To the Friend who keeps calling – Tinkoo tell him I am in the washroom To the guest who comes at odd times – Pinkoo tell him I am not home To the Servant/Masi – No my saas […]
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The Royal Fiasco
Published May 7, 2011 - 5 Comments
As I woke up today & dragged myself half asleep to our living room , I found my mother watching the royal wedding on TV. I was already looking down my nose on this royal nonsense, partially owing to my coworkers bubbly (read:sickly) excitement about it for the last week and primarily ...
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The Undercover Sisters
Published July 23, 2013 - One Comment
From the authors of Malonama and the people behind the NUSRAT ANIS clothing line, comes a brand new product, “The Undercover Sisters”. Endless Possibilities-The Shariah Way Cz we believe in keeping it confidential. For More Designs and Orders Visit: www.facebook.com/Theundercov ...
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To Beard or Not To Beard? A Grammatically (And Socially) Incorrect Topic We Know
Published July 14, 2012 - 22 Comments
**This is a guest post. The writer is an engineer from NUST, a wanabee student of knowledge, an occasional blogger, a photography and digital arts enthusiast, a self proclaimed philosopher and a sports and adventure fanatic. A true jack of all, master of none :p.** (The writer`s own words ...
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To Hijab or Not to Hijab: Say Whaaa
Published October 29, 2011 - 27 Comments
*Dedicated to Purnia Hasan (God is with the patient Purnia 😀 ) *Note: This article was wriiten by a wanna-be Black woman <insert irrelevant head-motion here>. *Special thanks to President Sarkozy-whats-his-name for making even my 150rs ka purple lacy scarf from Gulf (the Bazar : ...
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Welcome Stranger!
Published May 7, 2011 - 16 Comments
If you disdain the “ordinary”, look down upon “blending in”, if you always stick out in a crowd like a unicorn in pakpattan, if you`ve been called weird names and have laughed outright or smiled inside, then you, my friend, are in the right place! So enter stranger, ...
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Why Spidey Was Right and Imran Isn`t…
Published April 25, 2012 - 6 Comments
Caution: Please note just in case some over-zealous Imran supporter wishes to take me on: I`M F-A-T! “With great power comes great responsibility” And then he walks off looking all cool and nonchalant, as if doing the right thing comes naturally. Okay maybe it does, maybe our hearts ...
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You`re Beautiful, Its True…
Published August 17, 2011 - 8 Comments
*Warning: Keep away from reach of narcissists. How many times do we look in the mirror and sigh/whine/dream for flawless skin, perfect hair, and hour-glass figures? All that stares back at us (or so we think) is fat that we like to call love-handles, pimples we try to convince ourselves ar ...
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You`re Beautiful, Its True…

Published August 17, 2011 at 12:17 am - 8 Comments

*Warning: Keep away from reach of narcissists. How many times do we look in the mirror and sigh/whine/dream for flawless skin, perfect hair, and hour-glass figures? All that stares back at us (or so we think) is fat that we like to call love-handles, pimples we try to convince ourselves are normal signs of puberty […] IWEBIX Webdesign

Tongues on Fire

Published August 24, 2011 at 11:31 pm - 14 Comments

*Dedicated to one Mahwish Rizwan who specially requested this topic AND helped with the creative content* Disclaimer: All characters and incidents are fictitious. Any resemblance ought to be worrisome. “Omg! Guess what?! I heard from Ayesha, who heard from Amna whose maid works for this teacher who hears all sorts of stuff in the faculty […]

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