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Teaching students about Ranjeet or Bhagat Singh would not harm Pakistan’
ISLAMABAD:Teaching students about Ranjeet or Bhagat Singh would not harm Pakistan in any way. A distorted version of history is no longer relevant in the post 18th amendment era. This was said by Senator Raza Rabbani, the architect of the 18th constitutional amendment, on Friday at the roundtable workshop titled “Education in Federally Organised Countries”. The workshop was organised by the Centre for Civic Education Pakistan (CCEP) and the Forum of Federations in collaboration with German Foreign Office.Click here to read complete article. … Read entire article »
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Sleep my darling
By DELILAH Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock….. Come my beauty, open your legs Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock….. So tight little one….. Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock….. Don’t cry, Baba will buy you a new doll tomorrow…. Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock…..I woke up embalmed in sticky sweat. The little quarter was warm, as usual KESC had shut down electricity for its daily six hour load shedding, and it was just our luck that our slot was always at … Read entire article »
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MERE BROTHER KI DULHAN: LONDON PREMIERE
By : Sohail Anjum Photo-credit: Sohail Anjum/Asiana.TV The BFI at the Southbank was abuzz with activity last week as Bollywood hotties Katrina Kaif, Imran Khan and Ali Zafar, along with director Ali Abbas Zafar, were present to talk about their latest film with Ameet Chana. The occasion was an exclusive “In Conversation” with the stars and the director of the latest YRF blockbuster – Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (translated as My Brother’s Bride) – hosted by Yash Raj Films in association … Read entire article »
Parachinar—-A Sad Story
By Riaz Ali Toori: Parachinar, Pakistan’s paradise is very significant due to its strategic location, bordering Afghanistan, 250 km west of Islamabad. Lying in the upper part of Kurram Agency, it is blessed with natural beauty, is part of Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan and its geographical coordinates are 33° 53′ 51″ North, 70° 6′ 0″ East. People there are friendly and eager to acquire knowledge. There are good opportunities as well as encouragement for females aspiring for education. Each year students in hundreds leave the town for other cities of Pakistan in pursuit of standard education. A good many members of the young generation are presently studying in almost all Cadet Colleges, medical colleges, and engineering universities across the country. Remarkably, there are no restrictions, usually in existence in the … Read entire article »
Peace through Business
by Rameez Karamat Ali (@itsrkali) NEW DELHI: Pakistani companies may soon be able to invest in India as the government plans to strike off the country from a negative list that debarred investments from across the border. The symbolic move is not likely to yield fat investments into the country, but offer a political dividend to warm the often-frosty ties between the two neighbors. Reference: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-22/news/29914920_1_negative-list-mfn-status-india-and-pakistan Now the basic question which will rise in our minds that how … Read entire article »
Ground 0 – Badin
By F.K Two hundred people have fallen prey to the devastation that hit Badin and other areas in Sindh by more than 1,000 millimeters of rain in the last month. This is the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Sindh. Compare this to the 70 odd millimeters of rain that has fallen in Karachi over the past few days and one begins to realize the magnitude of the catastrophe Sindh is facing. I was in Badin earlier this week … Read entire article »
Filed under: Opinion
A Souvenir from the Punjab
By Kiran Rezvi It started when my nephew expressed his wish to travel and perform with a dance troupe; the entire family came in to offer unsolicited advice. Some typical macho males were against a boy dancing, others more religious were against the satanic display of music and dance. However, surprisingly enough, the biggest opposition came from the ‘nationalists’, who raised the point that dancing would have been ok, had it not been tap dancing. “Why can’t he join a ‘bhang.ra’ dance group? Our culture is far better than Irish,” came a passionate statement from a cousin. I normally stay away from such debates, but her comments caught my attention, particularly the one that described bhang.ra as ‘our’ culture. Nanaji, my grandfather, was a vibrant character. He used to enthrall us with … Read entire article »
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Considering Slackistan
By Zia Ahmad Slacker: i: a person who shuns or avoids work or other obligations; ii: a person who avoids military service; iii: or an educated person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic and usually works in a dead-end job. In 1991, the beginning of Richard Linklater’s seminal feature debut Slacker offered a clear denotation of its title. The film showcased all the variants on the meaning of the word inherently attached with the spirit of Generation X and subsequently … Read entire article »
The Norway Massacre: Blowback from West’s Islamophobia
By Faheem Khan On July 22, 2011, the worst terrorist incident occurred in the mainland Europe since Madrid train bombing of 2004. A 32-year-old Norwegian, Anders Behring Breivik, detonated a bomb in Oslo and engaged in a shooting spree in the island of Utoya, killing 76 innocent Norwegians. It now transpired that the perpetrator was motivated by anti-Muslim, anti-immigration websites of the U.S. and Europe. Since 9/11 terrorist attacks, the whole public discourse in the West has been shot through with Muslim hatred. Originally anti-Muslim bias was spewed by marginal media outlets such as Frontpage Magazine. Later it entered into mainstream media. For a full decade anti-Muslim propaganda has been dinned into the ears of western public. The obvious result is the hostility of the public against Islam. When the whole … Read entire article »
Is there a cure for Pakistan’s culture of victimization?
By Saad Hafiz: While periods of insecurity are common among a nation’s citizenry; the Pakistani culture of victimization has permeated the national discourse and sapped the Nation’s spirit. “They are doing it to us again,” “there’s nothing we can do,” “it’s all their fault” have become part of the political lexicon when discussing the complex issues facing Pakistan. Contrast the prevailing negativity to Mr. Jinnah’s Eid-ul-Fitr message to the nation on 27th August, 1948. “We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissension. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into … Read entire article »
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میں شاید اچھے گھر کی نہیں ہوں
ہندوستان کی مقبول ترین شخصیت اروندھتی رائے کو ایک مصنفہ، اداکارہ، آرکیٹیکٹ اور کالم نگار کے طور پر جانا جاتا ہے۔ یہ سب وہ کام ہیں جو ارندھتی نے کیے۔ لیکن ایک بات جس کے لیے وہ سب سے زیادہ جانی جاتی ہیں وہ ہے حکومت کی پالیسیوں کے خلاف آواز اٹھانا اور حکومت اور اتنظامیہ سے مشکل سوال پوچھنا۔ کہنے والے انہیں ’انٹلیکچوئل ٹیررسٹ‘ بھی کہتے ہیں لیکن ارندھتی کہتی ہیں آواز تو اٹھاتی رہیں گے چاہے کوئی کچھ کہے۔ بی بی سی کے نامہ نگار راجیش جوشی نے اروندھتی رائے سے ایک خاص ملاقات کی اور ان کی پروفیشنل اور ذاتی زندگی سے جڑے اہم سوال پوچھے۔ Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2011/09/110905 _arundhati_interview_audio_ka.shtml … Read entire article »
Anniversary of the Sep 7 1974
By Mohammed Rafiuddin: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Joseph Goebbels On 4 September 2011, Mr Naseem Ahmad Butt (55) was brutally murdered in Faisalabad, Pakistan. He was sleeping in his home when four unknown assailants jumped over the wall at 1am and fired at him. He was shot in his stomach and chest. The assailants immediately fled the scene. No money was taken; there were no personal grudges, no land disputes. So what was the motive behind the killing? What had Mr Butt done that left his four daughters and son without a father? His crime – he was an Ahmadi. The murders wanted a free pass into Paradise, they were just following the instructions of a leaflet, that continues to be widely … Read entire article »
The Jinnah Debate
By Yasser Latif Hamdani (Courtesy Daily Times) Ayesha Jalal, probably the finest historian that this country has produced in 64 years, said in a recent interview that the Jinnah discourse as Ahmad Ali Khalid put it in his article ‘The Jinnah discourse’ (Daily Times, August 24, 2011) makes her hopeful that Pakistan will at some point hark back to the original vision that Quaid-e-Azam gave this country. As Mr Khalid put it in his well argued … Read entire article »
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