Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21-st Century Pakistani

by Mehr Tarar

No country is bigger than its reality, or merely the sum total of its flaws.

Disfigure the truth, add coatings of untruth to reality, paint it with a patina of piety, use the pulpit and loudspeaker of mosques to proclaim your declarations of hatred and vengeance, and watch ordinary people turn into killing machines.

A female is simply an extension of her male relationships: a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother. She is everything and nothing. Everything with a man. Nothing without a man.

Those who make us cringe exposing our darker sides are not heroes, they are merely more honest than we could ever dream of being.

Your service has power if you feel pain [for others].