Category: Pakistani Society
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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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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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Editorial – Quarterly, The Rationalist Pakistan – Vol I, Issue I, June-Aug, 2012
Originally published in The Rationalist, Vol I, Issue I, Jun-Aug, 2012 – http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/miracle-of-water-spring-under-obls.html The influence of online social media has significantly presented its importance in the second decade of 21st century. The twitter and facebook lead revolutions in middle east have shook the world. Moreover, big guns tweeting directly on a common person’s computer updating…
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Osama Bin Laden’s Spring
Originally published at http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/mythbusting-osamas-spring.html Surprise happens, when gushing water oozes out from OBL’s compound in Abbottabad. But this is not the surprise. The surprise is that the local residents calls this a miracle. A miracle which happens because according to them innocent (yes, you read it right, innocent) people were killed there. Now I wonder…
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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 Great Malala Drama
Originally published at http://rationalistpk.org/2012/12/the-great-malala-drama.html Let us have a look on another obsession of our nation with a drama, recently telecasted by all the news channels and newspapers live on whole planet earth. This is the drama of Malalai Yousufzai; a 14 years old girl who acted to be shot by Taliban due to her being…
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Demystifying Agha Waqar’s Water Kit Fraud
This article was published at Rationalist Society of Pakistan’s Website and can also be read here www.rationalistpk.org/2012/09/demystifying-agha-waqars-water-kit-fraud.html Many people in the past have claimed to run vehicles on water. But all of them have turned out to be frauds. It is very simple. If water could be used as a fuel, then it is the…
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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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In the defense of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Recent Capital Talk show has spread serious discomfort among few people about Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, as evident by their comments on the videos. I just want to clear few points. I agree with what Dr. Sb said to that quack in the show. Before starting abusing Dr. PH because of his behaviour in the show,…