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The 16th of December is probably a cursed day in Pakistan's history with two grave tragedies occurring on this day; firstly the APS incident which took place in 2014. The other tragedy which occurred in the year 1971; the day when Dhaka fell and the country broke up into two never to recover back it's former glory. This is widely known as the East Pakistan debacle. I cannot even imagine the emotions of the Pakistani citizens the day when Dhaka fell and a new independent nation i.e. Bangladesh was created. While it was a day of utter joy and happiness for the Bengalis and the Indians, for us it was a dark and a gloomy day; if removing the memory of that day was an option I am sure we'd like to opt for it. In general we Pakistanis have the notion that this catastrophe was the conspiracy of India to break our country up. But all of this started way before the Indian involvement. It all started when the plan of division was announced by Lord Mountbatten then the Viceroy of ...

   The concept of people coming back from the dead is quite common in various cultures, vampires also rise back from the dead but not as normal human beings, they come with an unusual hunger for blood. Their history is as old as 11-century B.C, the general view of vampires in the eyes of people is that they are blood-sucking monsters and demons, ancient tales also depict vampires as monsters and murderers but the modern day movies and television shows depict vampires not as monsters who kill anyone coming in their way, but as normal people who don’t wreak havoc wherever they set foot (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Twilight Series). They don’t reveal their identities to their human friends and acquaintances because who would want to be friends with creatures who drain people out of blood? Vampires die when they are exposed to sunlight, garlic was also used in ancient times to get rid of vampires. In many ancient cultures vampires were just demon spirits who left th...