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My ever changing musical Choices

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Whenever, My Big Bro listen to my musical choices on my laptop, a reaction comes up in form of scolding and anger or more often with a request to play “Good music” or at least the music his ears bear to listen. Beside the respect and love I have in my heart for him I mostly refuse him in this regard due to his limited knowledge about music and his limited choices. I am the one who has huge musical choices. The singers I started listening first, was few famous Pakistani Pop singers (Haroon Rashid, Fakhir Mahmood, Sajjad Ali, Ali Haidar etc), when private Fm music channels started broadcasting for the first time back in 2003, 2004. Those channels not only gave the noble opportunity to their listener to listen to some good music but to make musical choices via calls and sms services. Haroon Rashid Fakhir Mehmood I guess I was student of 7 th or 8 th class. One of my finest memories of that time is that I used to complete school homework while listening to mu

23 October 2014

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23 October 2014 was among one of those bloodiest days Quetta has seen in recent years. It was an ordinary day until the incidents that happen during the day made it extraordinary. The incidents that happened during the day were multi-oriented, the first incident in the row that happened in morning was case of sectarian killing, when innocent fruit merchants of Hazzara town were killed in firing on the bus they were traveling in, one of many cases that take place on regular basis now. The second incident was attack on the FC patrolling vehicle on Qambarani road, which took at least 2 lives. The third incident was the one felt more deeply across the country, attack on the Key Religious Political Leader Moulana Fazal Rehman of JUI-F, just after their gathering in Quetta city. This attack was suicidal, and claimed 2 lives including attacker. One may think that these attacks are common now, but I think that these attacks are interlinked in some ways. The