Mehr Tarar

Special to Gulf News

Articles from the author

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I am sorry, my son

Musa was and is the kindest person I know

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From the time he sat up as a few-month-old baby to when he graduated from high school at seventeen, the knowledge of Musa’s contentment with life helped me sleep at night

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My Brother Babar

'I don’t write about Babar’s death because my words acquire a redundancy when I try'

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"I miss my brother. I want to say so much to him. So many things left unsaid. So many hugs that I didn’t give him. So many sorrys that remained un-worded"

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I love books and books saved me

Everything I write is non-fiction, the story of anyone, everyone, no one

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International analyst Farwa Aamer on water security

'Greater attention is required toward raising awareness'

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Alkhidmat Foundation: Serving humanity since 1990

Alkhidmat works under the supervision of a central board of managament

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Alkhidmat works in seven areas: Disaster Management, Health Services, Orphan Care, Education, Water Supply and Sanitation, Mawakhat (Interest-free microfinance), and Community Services.

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The Beautiful Virtual

An infinite number of people on an infinite number of platforms exist to create 'reality'

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'The most prominent manifestation of that mindset is the countless timelines that exist in the virtual realm. But they are more powerful than most real-life human expressions.'

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My forever foe: Stress

Stress as pain will begin its departure once I accept its inevitability

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It has been so long that I have had this pain in my left temple I don’t remember my life without it, writes Mehr Tarar. Picture used for illustrative purpose only.

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Pakistan’s finest: Rescue 1122 and USAR

Forgetting food and rest and sleep, the team did their best to rescue people

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The 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria has claimed more than fifty thousand lives

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Mehr Mutallam Memorial Trust serves humanity

MMT’s founders are Mehr Khaliqdad Lak, a former bureaucrat, and his wife Faiza Lak

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Pakistan’s Shaukat Khanam Memorial Trust: Since 1994

SKMT includes the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre

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Each year, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospitals and Research Centres provide financially supported treatment to seventy-five percent of all patients.

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Sajid Ali Sadpara on his father, mountaineering passion

At the age of nineteen, Sajid climbed K2, the world’s second highest mountain

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Beautiful Humanity: Zeba Masood’s LAPS in Peshawar

Founded in 2017, LAPS has helped thousands of street animals

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Zeba is the founder of the Lucky Animal Protection Shelter in Peshawar, the first ever animal shelter in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province