A swindler passes by a bird in the stairwell of an apartment building... The swindler was headed upstairs to visit his friend, the forger. The bird he passed along the way was the forger's homing vulture, which was en route to the forger's publisher to make a delivery. Unfortunately, the poor bird had to fly down the stairwell to ground level and out the open terrace since the forger's apartment had no windows. She was carrying some rolled up paper on which her owner had written the perfect end

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Never have a monarchy The barren land of the Empire of Balochistan. Flanked on the right by a nuclear-devastated cluster of what were once cities with potential; Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad. All gone now. Ghosts of their former existence. The AQ Khan nuclear weapon network's warheads, although never used, had clearly left their mark on what was once the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. North Korea's shipment to Karachi was intercepted by the Indian coast guard when the ship tried to cover

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