My Terry is still missing. (9/11)

Last night was a little hard, my wife (Terry) and me had an argument over having a child. She wanted a child but I was not ready for it. I asked her to abort the child. Depressed and unwilling, she called her friend to accompany her to the hospital for her abortion.
Her friend Sharron had her office on the 45th Floor, North tower of World Trade Center. Terry called me for the final time from Sharron’s office, asking me if this is what I wanted her to do. I replied “Yes!” without even caring about her feelings.
It wasn’t late enough, the news of a plane crashing the tower spread like some virus (peple yelling on the streets). I was hoping that it is not the North Tower, which the plane collided into. My hands turned completely blue and cold. My hands were so numb that I could not even turn the television set on for the news. I was praying to Jesus to do some kind of miracle.
I left my house running down for nowhere. I kept asking, what tower Terry is in? I had lost all my senses. I could hear people scream. Each person I turned, hoping she is my wife. I could see her everywhere, yet nowhere. Finally I heard someone yell… “It’s the North Tower Daddd, I can see another plane coming close".
This was the time I realized that Terry isn’t coming back. I sat on the street unknowing where I am and what time it is. I could see people run, scream, cry and cry. Now all what I could see was dust coming towards me, like a dam has broken and the water forcing out like flood.
One of the police officers carried me to a safer zone and later dropped me home. “Tens of thousands of people must have died”- the police officer said while exiting my house. Only few thousand bodies were found later on. But my Terry is still missing.
I don’t know who to blame. Should I blame those Muslims who killed my Terry to get their ‘God knows what message’ across? Or my own self, who pushed her toward her death? But what difference will my opinion make? My…my Terry is still missing.

Thesis- "Shooting an Elephant"

Meandering through his inner conflicts, Orwell could have still taken a stand, but he immersed himself in crowd pleasing.

"Shooting an Elephant" --thesis statement

1.Crowd pleasers like Orwell oppose their own resistance to will power.
2.Recognizing oneself by using others as our microscope can put an individual in an edgy situation, like Orwell did.
3.Unless the remote is in our own hands none can control us, however Orwell had no self-control.

Blog Entry5

" Neither do I mind being judged, nor do I want their verdicts. I believe in myself, and I also know that, none can shatter the one in me."

" I also don't want to be phrased as a hypocrite, I mean what I say. Believe in me and I believe in you, is like a deal worth lies."

August 30, 2007


Letters Editor
Dawn News
Highlight on Child abuse


Dear Editor:
The article published in yesterday’s newspaper (29th August 2007) was not sufficient enough to create a drastic impact over a critical issue like child abuse.

The writer expressed feelings for the victimized children. The sentence which said, ‘Dark are those eyes, still shining with broken lights’, created empathy for those children who were brutally abused. Picturing the trauma the children are going through and how they can speak without uttering a word from their mouth, but from their eyes.

The writer should have emphasized more on the heartless men who dared to show such a deviant sexual behavior. Inform the people of the consequences and the charges that they can face. And most importantly create awareness in the society to teach their children how to protect themselves from such men.

Will it be possible to get some to these social criminals out in public and create examples?


Or will this tragedy continue to hinder the society with such evil people surrounding it?


Sohail Salim
Karachi.