People suffer for something. For a grand cause, a family, a dream, a nation, or simply a better life. And in the end, they find their way, and somehow the suffering becomes meaningful. That is what ha...
Comparison has quietly become one of the biggest problems facing young people today. A twenty-five-year-old who has just started earning feels like a failure because someone his age owns a house. A gr...
Last evening, I was traveling in Riyadh Metro Bus looking into the face of people leaving factories, construction sites, warehouses, hospitals, and offices across Riyadh. It is the 2nd last week of th...
Reaching university life is the dream of every young boy and girl, It is like a charm that falls on us and makes us unaware of reality. Sitting on the floor in the class corridors, enjoying all the we...
There are five types of Pashtoon marriages: love marriage, arranged marriage, “jaisa aap ko theek lagta hai” marriage, “hamari izzat ka sawal hai” marriage, and finally, the un...
On our first day at the University of Peshawar, Ma’am Hina walked into the classroom and delivered a lecture with a title that sounded strange to me at the time: “Individualism is the basi...
We live in the easiest era to have an opinion and the hardest era to prove one. Every day, millions of people explain how to get rich without building wealth, teach discipline while sleeping through a...
A young man leaves his village and travels across the world. In his hometown, eating with one’s hands is a sign of respect and tradition. In another country, he notices people using chopsticks. ...
If a school is not promoting the following five skills, the students may carry certificates, degrees, and transcripts, yet stand no different from those who never entered a classroom. Communication. C...
Among Pashtuns, one of the deepest modern tragedies is not only poverty, war, or lack of opportunities. It is musāfari itself. Distance from home. Distance from belonging. A silent emotional exile tha...