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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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Why Pakistan needs secularism
Originally published in The Nation on November 30, 2014. Read the original. 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 the…
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Why is Waar a Poor Propaganda Flick
Being a movie buff, I could not ignore the hype of a Pakistani movie rated 9/10 on imdb.com. So, I bought this DVD of Waar as soon as I saw the poster of its availability on a local shop. Cutting the chase, there was I watching it while a similar Islamabad fiasco of Imran Khan…
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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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Another Open Letter to Imran Khan
Imran Khan claims that UK government allows similar protests like his “dharnas.” A friend from Australia wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister to ask whether they allow such protests or not. This is the reply he received from Home Department alongwith his own open letter to Imran Khan. Warning: If you are a die-hard…
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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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Gaza Siege to Israel’s Isolation! Just a matter of time?
The world is being completely asymmetrical in the terms of peace. Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa are struck with wars. Hatred is rampant. Violent political ideologies are mushrooming from every nook and corner of the world. More wars with more hatred and more bloodshed would be the ultimate folly at this time. More chaos…
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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…
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Arabisation or Westernisation; what are we really victim of?
The problem with the critics who call Pakistani progressive thinkers desi liberals is that they ignore many dimensions of a single problem. They see things in black and white. When a progressive person speaks about the horrors of Arabisation, they suddenly come up with the pictures of Pakistani youth wearing jeans and using mobile phones…