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A NEW PANDEMIC, A MUTUAL PAIN

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COVID-19, abbreviated from CORONA virus disease 2019 that was first out broken in China, is now detected in more than 100 countries throughout the globe. Consequential precautionary measures are being taken not only on the state level, but individual efforts are being considered equally crucial to contain the spread of this novel virus. WHO has lamented it a state of International Emergency & those countries that were always busy in battling with each other, are now battling against this pandemic. They can join hands as well because everyone’s on the same boat now & feeling a mutual pain; and why not? Which state wants a miserable number of casualties on the level that their corpses have to be quarantined as well? Throughout the homo sapiens history, world has witnessed several pandemic catastrophes. Previously, during World War-1 epoch, Spanish Flu (1918-1920) effected 27% of the world population & more than 50 million fatalities were counted worldwide. This w...

'Wedding Customs' A Source of Relatives' Satisfaction?

I was standing in  a  metro bus  on my way to the   grandest   Shah  Alam  market  of Lahore , when I heard a young girl's voice standing next to me. She was loudly  exhibiting   her probably friend  the reasons of her refusal   to go to her  male- cousin's future in-laws. Since they're talking very loudly, I along with everyone  else, quite  unwillingly  &  unintentionally,  started  listening to her family story. Her cousin's future in-laws had refused to gift the girls with  Joras  (clothes) , in order to kill   a common  custo m  in Pakistan to gifting fancy dresses to the groom's entire family individually  & probably because such customs were not affable for the bride's family . So in retaliation, the girls had planned not to attend her cousin's wedding function, because  she & her other cousins   felt insulted.  This is som...

Panama Leaks' Onus on Pakistani Citizens:

Needless   to   say,   but   if   we've   stopped   bothering   about   how   these   big   fishe s  have  been  engulf ing  all the tax money of poor masses, in which we ourselves are included, we should be called selfish. If we don't care to know how our money is looted & we just think that arguing on politics & religion is a foolish act, we simply allow  these politicians to fool  us, and not once , time  and  again.  We can't be wondered when we the nation, doesn't overhype Panama Leaks issue by thinking that it has been  happening  since long & we are  actu ally  used to knowing that every second ruler  deceits us with our money, but as long as we are contented with some metro sort of projects & some road constructions, they're allowed to loot the rest of our money.  This is what actually is being  thought  by a majo...