Author: Akif Khan
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My Ugly Children
The misery of our understanding and the passion of our self supposed beliefs haunt us like a permanently residing spirit within us. Often, tending to believe in our conclusions in firmness, we completely ignore the facts of life and the limitations of our environment. We turn blind to the fact that the biases we harbor…
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Of Reason and Heresy!
This article was published in the June, 2012 issue of The Rationale, Monthly. * Immanuel Kant once said, “A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.” For a person who believes in reason, this objectivity is mostly based on his analytical mindset,…
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US-Pak Duo: The right to beg
This article was published in Express Tribune Blogs and can be seen here. http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/11691/us-pak-ghairatmand-pakistans-right-to-beg/ Sixty years have been passed, since U.S. and Pakistan are in liaison. These six decades have seen many ups and downs in this association. History witnessed pompous public welcomes of leaders of both countries at each other’s places and also watched hatred-filled…
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The Midnight Crisis – (An excerpt) Page ***
CHAPTER XI (FALLING FOR LOVE, WAITING FOR HONESTY) “I feel like a baby who longed for Moon, and when he got there, he couldn’t breathe, he was alone and scared. And everyone on earth was laughing on the silly choice he had made.” I exclaimed. “You had the option Raphael, you got selfish, you thought…
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If not Imran Khan, then who else?
I follow no aim in this case, so there is no question of any effort to sabotage any political campaign of Khan. To me he is a great cricketer of his times and a nice philanthropist. The dare he took in establishing first cancer hospital in Pakistan and an educational institution is worth-praising. But, there…
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Munni badnaam hoi (And the Munni gets accursed)
Today I was reminded of a story written by a female university colleague of ours, back in university time. The story’s title was “Munni badnam hoi” and it was a narration of a mother who enjoys her 3 years old son Abdullah singing this particular song and she does not stop her from doing this…
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Losing my gears
Hassan Nisar at a TV Talk Show There was a time, I remember, when we used to post respectable Hassan Nisar’s views on society and religion. Those new and logical ideas made “The arrivals” and “constructive narrative” evaporate out of our heads. I even remember that whenever he used to opine in his challenging logical…
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That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
Akif Khan The volition is strongly enveloped in the name of past and future. The appraisal has been nullified. Looking into the eyes and the frown on the face of their masters that do not match the grin on their cold lips, the scapegoats could not remember the line of hamlet, “One may smile and…
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Live with the three musketeers, Afpak-US!
It was quite a pleasure to watch the interesting interview of Hamid Karzai conducted by Saleem Safi on a popular private Pakistani TV network. The pleasure was to see the positive attitude of Mr. Karzai while expressing his feeling about Pakistan. In his comments he claimed to back Pakistan if it wars with US. These…
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KESC Letter to its consumers regarding the nuisance created by some people
Dear Customers, As you are all aware of the grave situation KESC has been facing for the past over 2 months. Hostile attacks on people and property and threats by union miscreants have crippled company’s operations. Despite all odds KESC’s management, officers and workers have been relentlessly working day in and day out for the…