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April 24, 2014  By  Rabia Chaudry   At 21 I married a man five years older than me.  The second time around, at 31, I married a man five years younger than me.* Eight years into our marriage, it still sends little shock waves through people when I mention this. There are sometimes oooohs and aaahhhs, eyes get bigger and rounder, and I can almost see folks wanting to high five me and slap my husband on the back for biting the bullet and marrying an older, divorced, single mom.  I have, no joke, been asked at least a dozen times how I managed to pull this off. But a decade ago when he proposed to me, I didn’t bounce off the walls. I advised him to speak to his elders and family, which he did. I was mature enough to know that marrying into a South Asian family meant actually marrying the family, and without their blessings there would likely be no blessing in the marriage.  So he dutifully approached his parents, armed with the story of  Khadijah (ra) and Muhammad (saw) **, co

April 16, 2014   · by   Paul   ·  A popular travel column in the New York Times called “36 hours in…” has covered over 700 cities ranging from Lijiang, China to New Haven, Connecticut. But never a city in Pakistan. I am certainly not the New York Times, but wanted to make an attempt to change this by sharing a glimpse of my visit. Saturday. 8am. Airplane. Teenagers. “Where are you from?” “America.” “You’re going to get blown up!” The exchange with the Pakistani teenager next to me does not begin well. Pakistan is best known in the West as the home of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. It was quite high on the “I cannot believe you’re going there” list. Sensing the concern clouding my face, he breaks out into a wide grin. “Just kidding, man. You’re going to love it here. You Americans have totally the wrong image of Pakistan. Lahore is the party capital of Pakistan! Let me know if you want to go out tonight.” Turns out teenagers have the same sense of humor ev

Filip Dumančić Article Last Updated: April 20, 2014 Samsung Galaxy S4 is already a very potent device but it has some hidden features you probably don’t know about that can provide even better functionality for you. In this guide we will tell you about 25 different features of which the Galaxy S4 is capable. Most of this will be completely free on your part and you won’t be obliged to get any accessories to get to these functions. Most of these features are hidden deep in the menus of the phone itself, which is a better deal than having to press all kinds of different button combinations to make them work. You’re probably going to be amazed with everything we show here as there are a lot of users who wouldn’t even think about some of these features being available on their phone. To start with, you don’t need to have a rooted Galaxy S4 or any kind of a custom ROM to access these features. Since there are a couple of different variants of the Galaxy S4,