Category: Extremism
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ملالہ کا ڈرامہ – سازشی نظریے
پوری دنیا کے ٹی وی، اخبارات اور نیوز چینلز پر چلنے والے آج کل ایک رجحان کی ہی بات کرتے ہیں جس میں ہماری قوم گھری ہوئی ہے۔ ڈرامے کا مرکزی کردار ٹین ایجر ملالہ یوسفزئی نے انجام دیا، ڈرامے میں نام نہاد طالبان عورتوں کے حقوق اور تعلیم کے لیے آواز اٹھانے پر ملالہ…
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Green House Effect of US-Taliban talks
Comments on the article by Hussain Haqqani in NY Times today. Agreeing to Haqqani, I guess US is aiming for short term goals over here. Adding to the same, the next battleground of Taliban ideological warfare will be Pakistan and it will be source for their ideology dissemination and manpower recruitment. No matter how much…
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Bloody Self-Righteousness Syndrome
This self-righteousness is the reason that others get offensive to you. This self-righteousness of yours is the reason that others attack your faith. Do you realize, how much hurting is it when somebody judges you due to your faith? You can realize this only when you are in the same situation. When somebody makes a…
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Hazara Shia Genocide – Protest Updates from Islamabad
Right: Irfan Khudi Ali, Left: Ali Abbas Zaidi Courtesy: Ali Abbas Zaidi (http://ow.ly/gLfEQ) 10th of January, 2013, Thursday night was catastrophic for the Hazara Ethnic Community of Quetta when in a dual bomb blast atleast 100 Hazaras were murdered in cold blood. As usual Lashkar-i-Jhangwi accepted the responsibility. A well known peace activist Irfan Khudi…
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E-Jihadis at Full Throttle: Fake Column of Hamid Mir
http://rationalistpk.org/2012/11/e-jihadis-at-full-throttle-fake-column.html Today Ahmad Waqass Goraya tagged me in a post of E-Jihadis on a facebook page named Golden Pakistan (https://www.facebook.com/Goldenpak). What I saw was equally nonsense and depressing. There was a column by Hamid Mir Sb in which he exposed his editor and some other fellow journalists including Mubashar Luqman, Nusrat Javed, Kamran Khan and…
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The Tale of Two Men
There was a man who was born in a middle class family. He rose to excellence and became world famous. Human race owes him much due to his contributions. One of the brilliant minds of twentieth century, he brought to us not only national prides and honors but also made possible for thousands of other…
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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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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.…