I'm a girl. I'm a pakistani. I'm Malala. An outsider look.

By Ha-Meem Hussain, France.

Compared to the post I'm about to write my privious post appears to be ridiculous. Pouring tears on my silly little life while others are having much much tougher time...:O

On this blog you must know her better then me  but if u don't and  if keep on reading let me introduce you Malala. A brave Pakistani girl.

Have you ever experienced the awkward moment when you come back home after a moral lesson from school, and confront it with reality and realise that life is not black and white everywhere ? It happens scarcely to French students. But I've experienced it sometimes. And Malala more than me. I came home with my eyes shining with gender equality lesson when an adult said me to keep my feet on the ground. I wanted the same dresses for boys and girls and was again seen as a troublemaker. I wanted we brothers and sisters equally distributed chores and talk to each with same mutual respect, with same rights in every one's backpack. I've beleived in education-for-all dreams that's why, I try my best availing the chance offered to me of studing abroad.

Childhood

By: Amna Tariq

Down the musty corridor, I walked

Looking into the rooms, where once I had played

Then out of the back door, into the fields

Over the stile and into the Apple Orchid

Autumn it is, the bare trees whispered

Gold-red leaves crunched under my feet

Yet, everything seemed unchanged to me...

The shy giggling, as I hid behind a tree;

Valima Disaster.

Written By: Saad Amir

1856h: I'm home..getting ready for this Valima we have to attend and I already have planned the Blog post title 'Valima Disaster' not because I can predict future just that most Valimas turn out to be disasters.

Ohh and it has already started... I have nothing to wear. I don't know what to wear. Let me search for something comfortable so that I can eat without any problems :D

1923h: After changing 3 T-shirts and 2 collar shirts I have atlast found something to wear. It also looks like my lucky day.. The jeans Im wearing had 500 rupees in its pocket :D Im the only one who has changed so far, everyone else is still getting ready and I know its gonna be a long wait..

Dr Ruth Pfau: Pakistan's Mother Teresa

Pakistan is full of unknown heroes this I never doubted. Finding them and knowing about them has been the real problem for me. But this has always been my passion. Sometimes it gets easier and that's what happened with me this morning. I was just skimming through the news paper when I came across a short article on this person and the more I read the more it amazed me. 

While I searched on the internet It was really sad to see there wasn't much information available. Perhaps we should sort out who our real heroes are; Actors, singers, sportsmen or real life personalities who can be a true example for us, something that our country badly needs.

Let's enjoy Windies Success, lets dance the Gangnam way!

For KheloPakistan.com

West Indies needed this cup badly! More than anyone else, there is no doubt about it. It was a long wait for them.. 33 years without winning a World Cup, 8 years without any ICC trophy. 

With Cricket taking the back seat in the Caribbean and most people more interested in Soccer, Basketball and other sports this victory will mean alot to the Caribbean Islands and most probably revive the passion for Cricket once again.

Darren Sammy, the Captain said:  "We will definitely cherish this moment. We're going to relive it every day of our lives. This here (the trophy) is for the Caribbean people. West Indies fans all over the world have been craving success. I know they're partying from Jamaica down to Guyana. And we know how to party."

Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai!

Thanks to BBC Urdu Service, BBC South Asia, The Express Tribune.

Private schools in Pakistan's troubled north-western Swat district have been ordered to close in a Taleban edict banning girls' education. Militants seeking to impose their austere interpretation of Sharia law have destroyed about 150 schools in the past year. Five more were blown up despite a government pledge to safeguard education, it was reported on Monday. Here a seventh grade schoolgirl from Swat chronicles how the ban has affected her and her classmates. The diary first appeared on BBC Urdu online. THURSDAY JANUARY 15: NIGHT FILLED WITH ARTILLERY FIRE The night was filled with the noise of artillery fire and I woke up three times. But since there was no school I got up later at 10 am. Afterwards, my friend came over and we discussed our homework. The Taleban have repeatedly targeted schools in Swat Today is 15 January, the last day before the Taleban's edict comes into effect, and my friend was discussing homework as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Today, I also read the diary written for the BBC (in Urdu) and published in the newspaper. My mother liked my pen name 'Gul Makai' and said to my father 'why not change her name to Gul Makai?' I also like the name because my real name means 'grief stricken'.

Mayan Empire, Its fall and the Calender.

The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, mathematical and astronomical systems leaving behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, however, and since the 19th century many scholars have debated what might have caused this dramatic decline.

Din-e-Elahi: Mughal Akbar Mass Program For Unity

Written By: Sanwal Malik

Jalal-ud-Din Akbar (1556-1605), the son of Humayun had three main phases in his life. One was firm belief in religion holding the founding tenets of Islam. The second started when he opened the doors of religious natter and dialogues in which he invited the religious scholars of different sects of Islam in the “Ibadat Khana” (the place of worship) but soon he was disillusioned with the attitudes of the Maulvies and scholars who started losing their tempers and even abused one another on petty issues.

Flying Tales and Arguments! :D

Once upon a time not so long ago there was a Housefly .. people called him cute, famous and stuff but he never bragged about it himself .. 

And then there was a Butterfly .. Umm well she was pretty alright, a Best friend of Housefly who was always ready to pounce upon him whenever she got a chance .. Oh and she loved "  " .. 

Then in once upon a time there was one day when Butterfly started an argument ...

The secret of Machu Picchu

Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Peru, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a royal estate or sacred religious site for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century.

For hundreds of years, abandoned citadel’s existence was a secret known only to peasants living in the region. The site stretches over an impressive 5-mile distance, featuring more than 3,000 stone steps that link its many different levels. Today, hundreds of thousands of people tramp through Machu Picchu every year, braving crowds and landslides to see the sun set over its towering stone monuments and marvel at the mysterious splendor of one of the world's most famous manmade wonders. Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.