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It is my misfortune to have a cursed relationship with some of Pakistan’s best minds. I owe them a lot for having learnt quite a few things from their work and examples like sound arguments, use of language, reasoning, propaganda and love for liberty. Yet it is strange that whenever I take a principled position [...]
Have you ever given thought to the fact that what ridiculously ugly and suicidal life form we mortals have become? Here is our earth, a tiny particle of dust in the cosmic ocean of mass, and what we - the tiny crawling little germs of existence - are doing on this droplet of sand? We [...]
The propagandists are back in action, this time however to save their own skins. But before I move even a bit further on discussing their antics and semantics I must pay Pervez Musharraf a compliment. During his tenure, one must concede, propaganda was not only promoted as a cottage industry but experiments in this field [...]
As the country’s national assembly elects its new premier today, there are whispers going on in my head. Perhaps it is passionate imagination but I feel the spirit of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is talking to me asking when her assassins will be brought to justice. Those wretched souls that snatched from us our shining beacon [...]
Since the defeat of President Musharraf’s loyalists in the national elections, the Western neo-cons and their cohorts in the TV channels, such as Fox, are projecting a doomsday scenario about the war on terror. We are repeatedly told that if Musharraf goes the country will become a hotbed of terrorism and the Taliban will have [...]
As soon as the popular verdict was known the incumbent government’s moles with the aid of some foreign diplomats moved with a clear view to sabotage the popular choices. The first attempt made was to cajole and coax the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to form a government without the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). That attempt [...]
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On March 16, 2001 several youths allegedly attacked two Muslims who were standing outside their mosque in Sparks. One Muslim had his arm broken. The other was more seriously injured and was in a critical condition in hospital after undergoing three operations. This and others are only a few documented incidents [...]
[Introduction: It cannot be denied that the heartrending events of September 11, 2001, changed all our lives. I saw the sad events on CNN and was really shocked. Could anything in the world really force anyone to perpetrate such brutal crimes? But again being a journalist/writer in his early career I was acquainted with the [...]
I do not have enough patience left to watch a three-hour Indian movie. Once in a while when there comes a nice movie, my wife invites me to watch a few interesting scenes. ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a movie whose few scenes convinced me that it must be a great movie and I am sure [...]
Pakistan People’s Party’s Secretary Information Sherry Rehman, who is also being tipped as the country’s next information minister, has quite reassuringly told the media that her party’s government will reverse the dark censorship laws empowering the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to shut television channels. This is most welcome. If the new government manages [...]
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