Author: Akif Khan
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Another Open Letter to Imran Khan
Imran Khan claims that UK government allows similar protests like his “dharnas.” A friend from Australia wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister to ask whether they allow such protests or not. This is the reply he received from Home Department alongwith his own open letter to Imran Khan. Warning: If you are a die-hard…
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Khan’s Concerns Vs Khan’s Demands
Source: http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/07/53c388654494e.jpg Imran Khan’s concerns are not at all wrong. He may be right about many things. He may be right about corruption. He is right about conflict of interest. He is right about nepotism. He is right about tax evasion. He is right about Nandipur project. He is right about hooliganism of Punjab government.…
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Gaza Siege to Israel’s Isolation! Just a matter of time?
The world is being completely asymmetrical in the terms of peace. Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa are struck with wars. Hatred is rampant. Violent political ideologies are mushrooming from every nook and corner of the world. More wars with more hatred and more bloodshed would be the ultimate folly at this time. More chaos…
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In reply to the Ignorance of Mubashar Lucman
The following verses are from chapter 1, poem 10 from Saadi’s Gulistan (Bostan). They resemble a hadith. Somebody ask Mubashar Lucman to issue a fatwa on Saadi Shirazi. بنى آدم اعضای یک پیکرندکه در آفرینش ز یک گوهرندچو عضوى به درد آورد روزگاردگر عضوها را نماند قرارتو کز محنت دیگران بی غمینشاید که نامت نهند…
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Geo/ARY Case: Blasphemy laws for corporate agendas and state sanctioned persecution after religious persecution and personal vendettas.
It was a very sleepy morning. Cool breeze would’nt let me get up from bed any time earlier. As per my bad habit, after shutting down my alarm I opened my twitter and fb apps and saw this torrent of anger against Geo on twitter feed and facebook timeline. I was completely confused as to…
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Arabisation or Westernisation; what are we really victim of?
The problem with the critics who call Pakistani progressive thinkers desi liberals is that they ignore many dimensions of a single problem. They see things in black and white. When a progressive person speaks about the horrors of Arabisation, they suddenly come up with the pictures of Pakistani youth wearing jeans and using mobile phones…
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The Challenges to Feminism in Pakistan
Many of my feminist friends got offended by this post and I was bashed being politically incorrect on the notions of patriarchy and feminism. But Readers are the real judge. Please feel free to comment. I am embedding the facebook post as well. The original post was; “In our middle and upper middle class households,…
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مولانا طارق جمیل کی خدمت میں کھلا خط
آج کل آپ کی تعریف میں کافی قصیدے لکھے جا رہے ہیں اور ہر دوسرا کالم نگار حضرت کی عامر خان کے ساتھ “انٹریکشن” کو بیان کرتا پھرتا ہے۔ میرے کچھ سوالات ہیں اور کچھ اعتراضات۔ جن دوستوں نے مولانا کی ویڈیو دیکھی ہے وہ جواب دے سکتے ہیں۔ پہلا تو یہ کہ آپ کو…
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ذاتی رائے
عاکف خان اس وقت ملک کی دگرگوں صورتحال میں مہنگائی، غربت، تعلیم، دہشت گردی، بھوک اور لوڈشیڈنگ سے بالاتر دو مسائل ہیں جن پر ساری قوم غوروغوض کرنے میں مصروف ہے۔ میںنے سوچا میں بھی موقع سے فائدہ اٹھاؤں۔ تمیزالدین رپورٹ کی گریٹ ڈیبیٹ “کون کافر ہے اور کون مسلمان” کو درمیان میں چھوڑ کر…
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Charachteristics of a Patriotic Pakistani Mard-i-Momin
Why is it that I found most of the people in Pakistan with this same profile. They believe in following things unanimously. 1. Imran Khan is the hope and he will bring the change. 2. There are Good Taliban and Bad Taliban. 3. Good Taliban are very peaceful and they just goto Afghanistan to fight…