KemUnited - The King Edward Medical University Blog

TWEETY TALKS !   By Haania Khan   W ith his love for crisp and white eastern-wear, the very straight and median “maang”, the toothbrush-y mustache, and that ever green, ever kind smile, that’s Tweety aka Javed Iqbal uncle for you. You may know him as the one guy who’d punctually and dutifully recite verses from the Holy Quran first thing in the morning or from the sharp tap on your desk when you are talking during class or that stern-ish look when you have just plugged in your ear-phones. A ppearances. There is always more to what meets the eye. How completely lost we are in our fussy little lives that we are completely unaware of who the person seated next to us really is. What’s their story? What are they beyond our superficial, meaningless interpretations of them?  So I decided to break the ice and approach this ‘ordinary’ prop, a back drop in “MY STORY”.

 -  Same Guy Artwork courtesy of Bilal Rehman " Are you watching closely? " Remember this from  The Prestige ? If you do, you should have watched closely henceforth and hitherto. You people must have shared memes about how you are a kind of person who notices everything but stays quite - because there is a trend around where everyone just loves to say that they are introverts, maybe because being called an introvert also entails that they must be some extraordinary talented  super-duper-outta-this-world genius dudes  whose hidden gifts aren't being expressed owing to their  shyness  and  maturity  that do not allow them to  show off . Coming back, if you were watching closely, you must have noticed quite a few things about yourself and people around you, here in this home of yours. KE  is different from other universities, medical or non medical in many aspects. First off, its  phenomenal people . They a...

By Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."               - TS Eliot In 2013, my family and I had been back in Lahore for 3 years. After much soul searching, we had finally taken the plunge in 2010 although a few months earlier we had watched in horror as gunmen had stormed the Ahmadiyya house of worship in Model Town Lahore massacring 94 people and injuring over a hundred others, a kilometer from my family’s house. Less than two months later and just a few weeks before we landed in Lahore, two suicide bombers blew themselves up the ‘Data darbar’, the shrine of one of Lahore’s patron saints, the mystic Abul Hassan Al-Hajveri killing fifty people and injuring more than two hundred. It reminded me of our move to the small Arkansas town which I finally left to come back home to Lahore. Jonesboro, Arkansas is a small farmin...

Dr. Salman Ahmad by Moeed Ahmed, Taroob Latef, Laiba Khalid, Unsa Athar, M. Junaid Alvi Master of All Trades, Jack of None Doctor. Guitarist. Singer. Author. Teacher. Cricketer. Actor. Ambassador. Salman Ahmad has done much and proven more. Graduate of King Edward (1988) with a “junoon” for music like no other, Salman Ahmad loved Physiology, hated Forensic, used to captain the King Edward cricket team, formed a band at KE “The Doctors’ League” and has almost single-handedly begun the trend of Sufi music in the current era. As spontaneous in his wit as he is eccentric in his appearance, Salman Ahmad sent the entire team into peals of laughter with anecdotes from his prof exams, some on record and many off it :P