Category: Culture
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Javed sb, You Didn’t Have to Eat Your Heart Out Here
I used to be a fan of you, your rationality, your humanism, the way you thrashed unreasonable people such as Sadh Guru in debates, your bravery in the face of orthodoxy and all, despite your aloofness, which I think comes naturally with age and experiences of life. But there was no need to act dense…
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لہندا کیا ہے؟ کیا ہندکو، سرائیکی اور پوٹھوہاری لہندا یا مغربی پنجابی زبانیں ہیں؟
لہندا، جسے لہندی بھی کہتے ہیں شمال مغربی آریائی زبانوں کے گروہ کا نام ہے جو کہ پاکستان اور بھارت میں بولی جاتی ہیں۔ لہندا کی جینیاتی گروپنگ متعین نہیں ہے۔ یعنی یہ ثابت نہیں ہے کہ یہ زبانوں کے کس خاندان سے تعلق رکھتی ہیں۔ لہندا یا مغربی پنجابی کی اصطلاحیں “ایگزونم” ہیں جو…
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کچھ داستان مدرسے کے دنوں کی
نیچے ایک مولوی کے خلاف ایف آئی آر کی تصویر ہے۔ یہ مولوی ایک چھوٹی بچی کے ساتھ دس درازی کر رہا تھا قرآن پڑھاتے وقت۔ اس واقعے کی ویڈیوبھی موجود ہے۔ ہم نے مدرسے میں پانچ سال گزارے۔ ایسے کئی واقعات دیکھے مگر کوئی ہماری باتوں پر یقین نہیں کرتا تھا۔ موبائل، کیمرہ، انٹرنیٹ…
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This Week in Science – 28-02-22
This week in science. Extragalactic FRB: https://bit.ly/3vn66ke Brain waves in death: https://bit.ly/3BVWfmZ Glass spheres on the Moon: https://bit.ly/3IuXNH1 Asteroid impact: https://bit.ly/36CsID2 Largest family tree: https://bit.ly/3C0PBvO Grieving dogs: https://bit.ly/3srdqJZ Via @ScienceAlert
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Moon sighting: Discussing scientific perspective with astronomer and scientist Salman Hameed of Hampshire College, Massachusetts
Akif Khan and Salman Hameed discuss the topic of moon sighting, the method through which the start of months of the Islamic calendar are identified. Khan jokes that it could also be called “moon fighting”, as announcements about the sighting of the moon (or not) can make the beginning of holidays rather chaotic. They start by…
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Why Pakistan needs secularism
(This piece was orginally published in The Nation and can be read here.) In Pakistan, liberals are often accused of working on the Western agendas and being covert agents of “enemies” of Pakistan. They are also thought to be the ones who malign Pakistan’s image by cherry-picking few mishaps in the country. Let us explore…
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Pakistan: An interactive guide for Hollywood and Bollywood Movie Makers
IT is often very funny to see the international media, especially TV and Film Industry, portaying Pakistan as some country where women are covered in black overalls or shuttlecock burqas, people having beards and no moustaches with a checkered cloth over their shoulders, riding donkeys, wiping their behinds with stones, narrow streets, dusty roads, people…
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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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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…