Hi Everyone! Congratulations, we made it to 2021! Alhamdolillah. Why are you so apprehensive about 2021? Let us give it our best shot. We can do an exercise now. A good annual plan needs to be integrated with one’s future plans. This is why first we make our ten and five year plans, then make …
Happy new year- 2021
It is past 12.00 am in Pakistan now. One by one each country of the world will enter 2021. The new year has begun. I’m feeling a bit emotional today, like on all New years. Somehow, one feels like making some promises to oneself. Yes, new year resolutions. Knowing fully well that like the last …
What a year- 2020!
Hi Everyone! This year 2020, if you are well along with your family, then you have achieved the highest goal. Yet, it is a fact, that there isn’t a single family who hasn’t been hit by this pandemic in one way or another. This year has seen so much tragedy. No part of the world …
Intermittent fasting
Hi, Everyone! Join me in my battle against the bulge. I’m fighting an old battle with weight. If you have the same problem, then join me. I’ve found something that makes a lot of sense. Yes, intermittent fasting. I mean, all Muslims know how good fasting is. Yet, we also know, that it isn’t easy …
Brig. M. M. Sarfaraz Khan’s battle in East Pakistan, 1971.
Hi Everyone! ‘Time,’ they say ‘is the greatest healer.’ However, December 16, is a date that no Pakistani can be immune to. First was the loss of East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh, after 25 years. Then, just a few years ago was the terrible tragic killing of students in a school in Peshawar. However, we …
Tips for Income tax returns
I know you don’t want to hear about income tax returns now, as we have been going crazy with these lately. But many of you have got extensions done, so we have another two weeks. I’ve realized, this wouldn’t have happened if: I had known/remembered the last date! – Got prepared earlier. If I had …
The Source
Today, I’m wanting to tell you how I came upon The Source, in my life; The Source for everything, the good, the bad and the ugly. It is about the One who brought me into this world, and who sustains me in it. Every time, I had different assumptions. I kept giving credit to different …
Best of East and West
Hi, ? I love traveling. My record is that after ten days (or two months at the most), I miss home and my country, badly. What are the things that I miss? In this post, I’ll note these. Yet, when one is back, I miss many things that were enjoyed while I was abroad. It …
The new ‘normal’.
Every few years, life changes, and with those changes, another ‘normal’ becomes a part of your life. Isn’t that so? First it takes some time to adjust to the changes, and then it all becomes ‘normal’. Once you’ve faced it, you learn to adjust. Soon you even start enjoying it. Covid19 norms: You are thinking …