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  • Hazara Shia Genocide – Protest Updates from Islamabad

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    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…

  • Movie Review – The Devil Inside

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    Since the advent of 21st century, the world has moved away from superstitions and heading more towards rationality. However, still there are conscious efforts being made to divert people from rationalist behavior. This movie, “The devil inside”, is a similar futile attempt in this regard. Released by paramount pictures this january, the story revolves around…

  • Gravity hills – supernatural forces at work?

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    Originally published in The Rationalist, Vol I, Issue I – http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/gravity-hills-supernatural-forces-at.html Gravity hills are the places where due to the surrounding perspective and absence of a reliable reference point, a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope. Hence, when a ball is rolled or water is dropped or a car is freed of…

  • The Profound Misogyny

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    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…

  • Ramzan: Month of Compassion or Aggression?

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    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…

  • Of Reason and Heresy!

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    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,…

  • Defending a truth

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    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…

  • Chakwal Mishap, April 5th, 2009

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    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.…