Will mainstream media speak for the voiceless?
By Amaar Ahmad: The last counsel by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) right before his passing away was for Muslims to guard against violating the rights of women and the slaves. In the Islam Republic of...
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Siachen what next?
By Prof Farakh A Khan (22.4.12): On April 7, 2012 an avalanche (or Glacier Surge) buried the battalion headquarter under hundreds of feet of snow and boulders in Siachen’s Gayari sector killing some...
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Forget Siachin… What’s a Glacier?
By Josh Shahryar: As an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, the first time I heard about Siachen I thought, “Black China? What’s that?” Since in Farsi, Sia is black and Cheen is China. To my young mind, it was...
View ArticleHate Virus in Our Society
By Obaid Ullah Khan: Ours is a diseased society and anyone with sanity would hardly differ with it. Many a times a single disease causes multiple symptoms in a body. A deep study of our diseased...
View ArticleA hope for friendship, a prayer for peace
By Chintan Girish Modi: I read this morning’s news with great delight. Soon as I signed into my Twitter account, two fabulous news items grabbed my attention. ‘Cabinet nod to easier visas for...
View ArticleNo taxation with representation
By Saad Hafiz: One is probably familiar with a inspirational slogan of The American Revolution: ‘No taxation without representation’, originating in the 1750s and 1760s, which meant that the British...
View ArticleSatire: Two spies arrested in Lahore
By The Satirist Two American backpackers were arrested yesterday in Lahore on suspicion of being Indian spies. Neither the police nor the intelligence agencies have yet to confirm or deny the reports....
View ArticlePakistan: Women’s struggle for their rights
The contemporary socio-political and economic discourses in Pakistan are restrained strictly in the paradigm of patriarchy and capitalism. The slogan of change and revolution has been shouted out loud...
View ArticleBreaking the impasse in Indo-Pak relations
By Saad Hafiz: The heavy baggage of history in Indo-Pak relations includes Partition, Kashmir, armed conflict and ongoing arms race, Bangladesh, Siachen, Kargil and Mumbai. Mostly shrill jingoism and...
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Fueling Hate
By Abrahim Shah A hearing in the United States Congress a few weeks ago titled “Pakistan: Friend or Foe?” saw several congressmen unleash an unprecedented and vituperative salvo against Pakistan,...
View ArticleAsexuality is NOT a Disease
By Laiba Zainab In our everyday life we always hear that “sex and sexual appeals are natural”. We are always told that opposites attract each other and by “attraction” it is always considered...
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بندر سے بندوق واپس لو
تحریر:شان تاثیر ہمارے ملک میں بہت سے شریف لوگ احمدیوں پر ظلم کی تو مخالفت کرتے ہیں لیکن ساتھ ہی اس بات کو جائز خیال کرتے ہیں کہ احمدیوں کے لئے مذہبی شناخت وہ ہو جو اکثریتی گروہ ان پر مسلط کرے۔ میری...
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Nyla Ali Khan debunks concocted story of Lawrence of Arabia’s marriage with...
Dr Nyla Ali Khan The quickest and easiest way, even in the 21st century, to alleviate the angst caused by a politically influential woman is to slander her. One such libelous story was of my maternal...
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I love porn!
Fizza Abbas I love watching porn for the sake of porn, I won’t justify myself by saying that I love human body nor I will try to trigger your aesthetic sense by saying I love beautiful things, I...
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They make masturbation a sin
Fizza Abbas They make masturbation a sin forcing you to go and seek hideouts to explore the brighter side of your personality, behind walls, boundaries and cages where darkness rules and brightness...
View ArticleShort Story: The Rohing of Rohingyas
By Shahida Dj “My sons were the beauty of my life, the soul of my universe, the peace of my heart, the solution to all my problems. But life turned everything into opposite of my wishes and dreams”,...
View ArticlePakistan – A Nation of Steel
By Ahmed Amin Malik I would begin with some lines from a beautiful poem of Ralph Waldo Emerson, aptly titled “A Nation’s Strength”: Not gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for...
View ArticleThe Wind Belongs To No One
By Muhammad Saad Saleh A few days ago, Safdar Awan had the temerity to use the highest platform for legislation to spew venom on the already persecuted Ahmadi community. He not only denounced their...
View ArticleLecture on 1917 Russian Revolution and state capitalism
By Umair Arif This blog is not intended to “deliver” such a lecture but present an account of my observations and intellectual discourse on the event which was organized by Inqilabi Socialists...
View ArticleFarewell Address by the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Jawwad S. Khawaja
Full Court Reference Farewell Address By Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja On the completion of his tenure Dated September 9, 2015 Translated from Urdu by Jalees Hazir and...
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