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A huge win for the Ummah today
As Malala becomes the youngest ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize
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High Court Upholds Death Sentence on Aasia Bibi
Setting new records of shamelessness and spinelessness, the Lahore High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to Aasia bibi for "blasphemy". For years now, the lower courts in Pakistan have taken...
View Article"we are muslims"
...“We have source besides the (Pakistan) army…people in Kashmir are fighting....just need to incite them....we can fight with the (Indian) army from both the front and back....we are...
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Hazara Genocide: Are the police just stupid or is there more to it?
As the systematic genocide against the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan continues unabated, Mohammed Hanif has a good piece on his interactions with "law enforcement" in Quetta.Some choice...
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Pankaj Mishra and his discontents...
Pankaj has an op-ed in the NY Times. Friend Sardul Minhas prodded me to say something about it, but I was short of time and just gave some general comments about the Pankajist worldview and it's...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Imran Khan and the Insafian Revolution
Looking back at Pakistan’s history over the last forty years, he represented the country’s best opportunity to transform itself from a third-world kleptocracy to a modern democracy, which is why the...
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Islamicate civilization: It will get worse before it gets better...
by Omar AliFirst published at 3quarksdaily.comAt about 6 pm on Sunday evening, a young suicide bomber (said to be 18 years old) blew himself up in a crowd returning from the testosterone-heavy flag...
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Burnt Offering: The Martyrdom of Shama and Shahzad Masih
Shama and Shahzad Masih were poor Christians who lived in the small village of Chak 59 in the Tehsil (subdivision) of Kot Radha Kishan near Lahore. It is not a remote area (though some orientalist in...
View ArticleFurious Confusions
A PTI supporter I know on-line sent me the piece “An Ode to Fury” by Fahd Husain in the Nov 19 Express Tribune, with the implication that the fury discussed in this article justified the “revolution”...
View ArticlePankaj Mishra's Tendentious Little Book
This was a rolling rant I wrote while reading Pankaj Bhayia's book in 2012. Edited version followsAfter being told that everyone from Orhan Pamuk to Pakistani Ambassador (and liberal feminist Jinnahist...
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A Strategic Corporal in Faisalabad
A strategic corporal is a junior level operator whose actions can have huge strategic and political consequences well above his pay-grade.A strategic corporal may have struck gold this morning in...
View ArticleWas Nigel Farage right in blaming immigrants?
The fact of the matter is that the establishment (Tory-Lib-Lab) have left Britain in much weaker circumstances since the end of the Thatcherite era,Immigration is not a qualified evil but nor is it a...
View ArticleThe Taliban REALLY Don't Like Music
The kids take it rather well.Talibs (or as Tariq Ali says, "the Pakhtoon resistance") make sure Pakhtoon kids are not destroyed by the evils of rhythm, harmony or melody. You have to click the link...
View ArticleTariq Ali on the Afghan Resistance
Comrade Tariq Ali speaks about the Afghan resistance; I am NOT kidding.Dont say I didnt tell you: "A pre-revolutionary situation appears to be developing in Pakistan. The proletariat, long suffering...
View ArticleA Gay Kiss in Madrid and a troll in Silicon Valley
One of the best ways to reach equanimity these days is to unfollow everything. Therefore while I'm still on social media I actually don't follow anything or anyone (instead I look up individual...
View ArticleBanana skins, ice showers and amnesty
Since I only write when I'm riled about something (which oddly enough in my last weekend as a 20-something is getting rarer and rarer- perhaps I'm getting more self-centred) I trawl through the free...
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Turning 30
I'm turning 30 in an hour and a half.It's the shift now where the big birthdays are every decade rather than every year, three years or 5yrs (18, 21, 25).Goodbye to my 20's, it's a brave new world...
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Massacre of the Innocents: Death Comes Again to Peshawar
ہے زلزلہ زمیں کو گہن میں ہے آفتاب / بارش ہے خون کی چشم فلک اشکبار ہے ہے عنقریب پھونکے سرافیل صور کو / بس حکم کبریا کا فقط انتظار ہےThe Earth is shaking, the sun eclipsed, the sky is raining bloodThe...
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