My name is Mahim Maher and I am a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. I am 32 years old and have been working with newspapers since I graduated in 2000, which isn’t a long time at all. I am currently working as the website editor for SAMAA TV (www.samaa.tv). Prior to this I went on a fellowship to the US because of the kindness of the family of the slain Wall Street Journal journalist. This blog started from a murder case I investigated in 2007. I recently got back in touch with the investigating officer, SSP Niaz Ahmed Khosa. The case dates back to Sunday, Feb 4, 2007, when the crime reporter Abbas Naqvi reported a late-night single column item on a college student Nisha Amin, who had burnt to death in her kitchen. For some strange reason, Abbas and I finished work at 1:00 a.m. and followed the story from the mortuary onwards to her flat. I became heavily involved in this case and when her relatives and friends started contacting me with information I decided I had to start a blog to keep my head clear. No, the cops did not find out for sure what happened. But I never forgot Nisha and decided in February 2009 to revisit her story.
You don’t HAPPEN to be the Mahim Maher I had a wild crush on in Poetry with Mary DiMichele and Creative Writing with Debbie Howlett at Concordia U. in Montreal, are you? You’re not the Mahim Maher at whose apartment I was watching a movie on Jan. 14th, 2000 while my apartment was on fire? (I think I never told you guys that… I had to leave school pronto – couldn’t get financial aid from the gov’t on account of I was already on the receiving end of student loans). You had made chicken that night, with rice I believe. It was awesome. You wound up breaking my heart and going for this other guy in our poetry class, his name eludes me at present. He was a demi-god in the sack, it appears. Lucky him! How the hell have you been?! Drop me a line! Let’s do lunch! I still think you’re hot! Whoo-hoo! (oh yeah, except I live in Nuke York now… details! Details!)
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Hey Mahim,
I moved to Washington and joined National Public Radio. Totally fun. I am covering the FBI. The Jihad book goes to press in a couple of weeks.
What are you up to?
Dina Temple-Raston
Hi Miss,
you might remember me as the kid in The City School who always failed in Maths. Yes it’s Ravez. I never got around to thanking you for always standing up for me and encouraging me even when you knew this student was a black hole and nothing would work on this one. Obviously you have come a long way. So have I. Try and google me sometime ( search Ravez Junejo on Google) and you might find something interesting. Oh and I’m still a good speaker, by the way. And whose Urooj Zia? I believe she works at DT and is my friend on orkut. Strange character ( don’t tell her I said that).
P.S: I am sorry I called you Hitler in class but believe me, the loser that I was ( and am), that was the only way I could make my presence felt…unless you consider being bullied a presence. Besides, everyone was calling you a Hitler person, not just me. Hope you’re still taking all of this in stride
Have fun,
Ravez…
another montreal acquaintance here to go with stephane above..solin ‘96 ! drop me a line when possible, scary its been 12 years or so since we last spoke
hi Mahim! infact u dont know me, but when u were employee at Daily Times Karachi, i used to visit Amar Guriro, at this time im reporting for daily dawn district Umerkot, im to get some suggestions if u have time, regards A.B.Arisar correspondent Daily Dawn Umerkot 00923003060267