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مفتی نعیم اور شرمین عبید چنائے دو مختلف نظریات ہیں
تحریر: عماد ظفر مفتی نعیم نے جو الفاظ شرمین عبید چنائے کے بارے میں استعمال کیئے غالبا کوئی بھی شریف آدمی ان کو دہرانے کا سوچ بھی نہیں سکتا۔ ایک ٹی وی چینل پر بیٹھ کر مفتی نعیم صاحب کا شرمین عبید چنائے...
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آسکر یا پھانسی فیصلہ آپ کیجئے
تحریر: عماد ظفر انتیس فروری سوموار کی صبح پاکستان میں دو اہم خبریں زیر بحث رہیں۔ شرمید عبید چنائے کا آسکر ایوارڈ جیتنا اور گورنر پنجاب کے قاتل ممتاز قادری کی اڈیالہ جیل میں پھانسی۔ یہ دو مختلف خبریں دو...
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حقوق نسواں کا بل اور سیاپا
تحریر: عماد ظفر خواتین پر تشدد کے روک تھام کے حوالے سے پنجاب اسمبلی میں بل کیا پیش ہوا گویا پورے ملک میں اک ہنگامہ برپا ہو گیا۔ بڑے بڑے علما اور مذہبی سیاسی جماعتوں نے اس پر تنقید کے نشتر برساتے ہوئے...
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The Pakistani delusion
By Ali Bhurgri February 29 was a tragic and treacherous day for Pakistan. Sharmeen Obaid had an Oscar, Mumtaz Qadri was hanged. It is painstakingly sad, and like a good Pakistani I shall attempt to...
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Gallery of the Dead
By Arooj Zahra When Hassan’s best friend Baqir was not responding to his calls for more than a week, fear griped him and he decided to visit the place where someone missing from the sense for long...
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Qadri’s Pakistan or Taseer’s Pakistan?
By Imran Ahmad Khan A radicalized Pakistan’s long-drawn struggle to de-radicalize itself took a key turn when the law of the land took its due course, resulting in Mumtaz Qadri’s hanging. However, it...
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Review:The Wandering Falcon—Exploding the Myth about Tribal Culture(s) in...
By Aslam Kakar The Wandering Falcon By Jamil Ahmad The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmed’s debut novel, was published in 2011—almost four decades after it was written in the early 1970s. Why it took so...
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خواتین کا عالمی دن اور دعا
تحریر: عماد ظفر 8 مارچ کو دنیا بھر میں خواتین کا عالمی دن منایا جاتا ہے۔ ورکنگ وومن بالخصوص اس دن کا اہم حصہ ہوتی ہیں۔ دنیا بھر میں خواتین کی خدمات کے اعتراف میں اس دن کو منایا جاتا ہے۔ پچھلی صدی کے...
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تحفظِ عورت بِل اور ملاؤں کی پریشانی
تحریر: ملک عمید پنجاب نے عورتوں پر تشدد کے خلاف جو قانون پاس کیا ہے اس کا ردعمل جن حلقوں کی جانب سے آ رہا ہے اس پر کوئی تعجب نہیں ہوتا، اگر یوں کہیے کہ لگ بھگ تمام مردوں کی جانب سے آ رہا ہے تو غلط نہ...
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سرتاج عزیز کے پتے اور بے ثمر ورزش
تحریر: ملک عمید ہندوستان کے وزیر خارجہ کہتے ہیں کہ پاکستانی طالبان پر ان کا اثر و رسوخ ہے، ساتھ ہی موصوف نے بین الاقوامی ماہرین کے سامنے اعتراف کر لیا کہ ہندوستان پاکستانی طالبان کو پناہ دیتا ہے، ان کے...
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An Open Letter to Mustafa Kamal
By Emad Masroor Dear Mustafa Kamal, I am going to preface this letter by saying that I admire you for the way you embraced ownership of the city of Karachi, and encouraged all of her citizens to...
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A Leap for Pakistan
By Huzaifa Ali Ahfaz The 182 million people of Pakistan slept on the night of 28th February of 2016, not knowing what astonishments the leap day would bring. Some of them didn’t even notice that the...
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Faisal Saeed’s Fight for Human Rights and Secularism
By Aslam Kakar Faisal Saeed al-Mutar is an Iraqi born writer, freethinker, computer geek, and human rights activist. He is also an advocate of secularism and the free market of ideas. Faisal is the...
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Are Karachi & Hyderabad RAW’ Stronghold?
By Ahmer Muzammil For the 167th time in last 25 years, the establishment of Pakistan and the Punjabi intelligentsia has been trying to convince the rest of the country that MQM is RAW’ B team. This is...
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The Profession of Prostitution – II
By Najeeb Kakar In my last article, about the profession of prostitution, I deconstructed why prostitution is considered a viable source of revenue by poor Pashtun women. I had also given a detailed...
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Part II: Media – Our Friend or Foe?
By Muqeet Tahir Malik The plethora of media. Media is like a myriad giant setting trends for public all while trying to cajole them for personal gains. A prominent example in this regard is the six...
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Yes you are supporting Qandeel Baloch!
By Syed Foaad Hassan I am shocked and feeling ashamed being part of a society where people share videos of a stripper wearing Pakistani flag among their social circles, whether it is Facebook or...
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Pakistani Definition of Patriotism
By Amir Hayat Patriotism is a Latin word that drives from “Patriota” which means “country man”. The definition of patriotism as per oxford dictionary is “the vigorous support for one’s country”....
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Four self-defeating practices of Pakistan’s liberals
Taimur Rahman Four self-defeating practices of Pakistan liberals that have made them ineffective against extremism. 1) Liberals are unable to develop an awami (popular) culture. Lets face it, Pakistani...
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A culture of hypocrisy
By Saad Malik Couple of years back when the wave of terrorism and energy crisis was at its peak, I had an unpopular opinion about the two biggest problems faced by Pakistan. Since the media coverage...
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