Category: Culture
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The Profound Misogyny
Today we have with us a much-esteemed guest, Dr. Naseem Khan Qureshi. Dr. Qureshi is a regional coordinator of an iNGO, Protection of Women Rights and Feminine Empowerment (PWRFE). He has completed his Doctorate in Biology from ABC University of UK. He has been associated with the iNGO since last 15 years and has worked…
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Ramzan: Month of Compassion or Aggression?
Every culture has its own specific ways to greet and celebrate a particular event. Pakistanis have their own ways to do this. And this greeting has also become a certain type of culture. All over the world Muslims observe holy month of Ramzan with religious devotion. This religious devotion again varies with culture but sometimes…
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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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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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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…
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Defending a truth
Sticking to a famous quotation stating that one should be seeking truth and accept it, no matter which source it comes from, is hard to practice and handle in our society. It is often a miserable situation when the same clashes with people’s presumptuous and perceived mindsets and you have to prove it feeling defensive…
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The Killing of a young boy, The brutality in the state of denial
A young man, named Sarfraz had been shot down by Rangers publicly on the eve of 8th June, in Benazir Bhutto Park, Boat Basin area of Karachi. He was involved in a crime according to Mr. Rehman Malik, Interior Minister. The rangers stated that he was killed in an encounter. Those who have seen the video of this incident, captured by public present…
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Violence against lawyers in Lahore
Violence, In whatever form is condemnable. It can also be called as a tool of devil. In Lahore yesterday what happened is truly very bad. The legendary and successfull social movement of Pakistan is facing a dillemma. But there are many facts and figures to be considered before we go into the details of the…
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Chakwal Mishap, April 5th, 2009
The incident happened in Chakwal, Pakistan on 5th of April 2009 in an Imam Bargah left many died, injured, dismayed and tortured too. Previously in the last month a similar incident happened in a mosque in Khyber Agency, in Federal Administered Areas(FATA) of Pakistan. Indeed both mishaps are the incidents which cannot be left un-condemned.…