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		<title>Knotting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am writing after so long. On impulse! Just when I was talking to him, today &#8212; he stood with his back to me, and as we spoke, my eyes wandered over his clothes. His shirt was stitched up in so many places. It caught my attention, but not as sharply as it would later. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have seen her often in yellows With big and beautiful eyes Beaming face And a gleeful smile On her winning lips If there is anything parallel to all that It is her own reflection]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shades of God ..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I called my brother today. I needed to pay my rent at least. I didn&#8217;t want to ask any friend for help before I could look at my own ones first. Although I knew that my older brother is going through financial troubles too, I still thought it was better than asking from a friend; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shades of Life ..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Come to a point where I have nothing left to spend on food. It is interesting that you have wi-fi but not a penny to eat. I have my rent due on Sunday and for the first time my landlord reminded me to pay it on time. Shades of life: sometimes you have plenty, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stealing a Life &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paris attacks are harrowing. Brings a shiver down my spine. I am not exaggerating my state of mind. Whenever innocents die I am forced to recall the words from my favourite book &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221;: “…there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft…when you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Random Rambling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 01:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written anything about anything lately. I have been wanting to write a lot but the thoughts in my mind did not really come straight to take the shape of words here. There are too many thoughts, such as that of a kid I met who was selling story books in the streets of Karachi [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Some Words of John Stuart Mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Abdul Razzaq &#8212; The Kid We Have Ignored</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was coming home early in the morning when I saw something that made me curious: a young Pashtun guy with a sack of trash lying at his foot was writing something on a neighborhood wall. See this I got near him. He was writing his name on the wall with this black marker &#8220;Abdul Razzaq&#8221;. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>28 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[28 years have passed now. And sometimes I wonder what exactly I have done in all these years. I am not sure how to answer. If anything, I haven&#8217;t been able to achieve so much of what I wished to achieve. But this does not mean that I am unhappy with what I am now or how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Painful!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw this new guard in my street today who came only for a two-day duty. This young guy was so awful sick as I talked to him! He has similar illness as mine and is incurable on permanent basis. He was so worse and in deep pain yet working to feed himself. Seeing his life I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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