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Famous qawali singer Amjad Sabri has been murdered in Karachi. At the moment motives of the murderers are unknown and it is not known who has committed this heinous act. Pakistan is a dangerous place for anyone but for people who are well known, it can be a hellhole. Son of Chief Justice Sindh High Court has been abducted couple of days with his future in deep uncertainty and now Amjad Sabri has been killed.  In a normal country one can think of reasons for such oppression but in Pakistan there are so many different actors at work that it is near impossible to find out the identity of the culprit or their reason for such barbarity. Amjad Sabri was a singer and it is hard to think what wrong he did to upset anyone. Most of his singing was about the praise of Allah and his prophet and still he was not good enough to be allowed to live. Was this a case of extortion related killing, religiously motivated or politics had something to do with it, is currently unknown.  Home 

Watford is a small town north of London and one of the most expensive places to buy property outside London. Some of the areas are even more expensive than London like Nascot Woods, Cassiobury Park e.t.c.  The number one primary school according to Good School Guide rankings https://www.schoolguide.co.uk/primary-schools/Watford  is Nascot Wood primary school.  The number one secondary school in Watford is Watford Grammar School for Boys https://www.schoolguide.co.uk/secondary-schools/Watford . Watford is a small town but it has many independent coffee shops and small independent retailers which sell fresh vegetables, meat and fruit. Watford football club has been recently promoted to premier league and match days are very busy affairs as all car parks near the stadium are full to the brim and town centre becomes a host to home and away fans. Some of the retailers who sell asian groceries are Best Foods and Gill Butchers ( As the name suggests, Gill Butchers sell

By Sikander Hayat  Impact of Brexit on British Pakistanis is going to be huge. There are sizeable Pakistani communities living in United Kingdom , Norway , Spain , Ireland and other Western European countries . What does the future hold for the cohesion of these communities. Would Brexit stop them from interacting, living and working. I guess this point is true for anyone living in Britain and the rest of EU but now that the third/ fourth generation of Pakistanis are growing up, leaving now will be huge blow to their future prospects. It is not out of the question that UK will suffer an economic loss if it leaves EU. The most painful truth is that current debate in UK has moved away from economy to the toxic subject of immigration . Now immigration is at the front, right and centre of the Brexit debate and because of this toxic environment, MP Jo Cox was murdered by a right wing terrorist in the city of Leeds . That terrorist believed that Ms Cox was pro immi

By Sikander Hayat  We do not know what to say. We want to say a lot of things but it seems that we do not have the words to say them. Depression, tension we do not know what we are suffering from? Is it just life? Is this the  price that we pay as humans to live on this earth. To be sad, to be discontented. Happiness is elusive. Very few fleeting moments of happiness and joy and endless list of problems. What is right and what is wrong, we have no idea. There are days when you feel happy, you feel on the top of the world, you feel that everything is going according to the plan, you feel that you can not be defeated, you cannot be conquered and you cannot be in a bad situation ever again. Then there are other days when you feel nothing goes right, when you feel there is no point in living, when you feel the world is against you, when you feel whatever plans you make are destined to fail, when you feel no matter what you do things will not get better. This is existence that we

Home - More than 20 British Muslim families have been denied entry to the US, it has been claimed, amid mounting claims of religious discrimination by border officials. The allegation was made after a British father whose family holiday to Disneyland in the US was cancelled at the last minute by border officials spoke of their “devastation”. Fitness instructor Mohammad Tariq Mahmood was among 11 members of his family hoping to fly from Gatwick to Los Angeles last week, but said they were taken from the queue to board the plane by a border control officer. Read the full story here. 

Home - Since the Gherkin pierced London's skyline in 2003, a number of architectural delicacies have popped up around the capital. Prince Charles once likened the capital to an "absurdist picnic table", but has it really started to resemble a giant's feast? "The Gherkin really started the trend," says Peter Rees, ex-chief planner of the City of London and professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. It is not the first building to earn a nickname inspired by items usually found in the kitchen pantry. Indeed, Prince Charles also dubbed the 309m-high Shard an "enormous salt cellar". With work having resumed on the Can of Ham in January and the Cucumber on its way, BBC News explores some of the capital's most high-profile morsels. Read the full story here. 

Home - The 13-year-old had been missing for almost two weeks after disappearing on 6 December . Detectives are still searching for two sisters, Abir and Ahlam Salah , aged 16 and 15 respectively, also from Wood Green . Abir was reported missing on 6 December, and Ahlam on 12 December. Police believe the pair have not left the country and may be sleeping on buses or elsewhere on the transport network. A Metropolitan police spokesman said: “The girls have been reported missing before. The last time was on 19 November, when they were missing for a week. They were found safe and well in the Wood Green area. Read the full story here.