Deadpan Thoughts

Jandullah, Jamaat and Al-Queda

By Ali K.Chishti Recently, the Karachi Police had found an organization named, “Jandullah” for the terror attack cum bombing on the Moharram Ashura procession killing more than forty-five people in Karachi. The name Jandullah was previously linked to a similar organization based in Baluchistan who had carried out attacks in Iranian Baluchistan and another organization [...]

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SWO & Unifem celebrate 16 days against domestic violence!!

These are testing times for women in Pakistan. The country ranks 106th out of 137 on the Gender-related Development Index and 66th out of 75 on the Gender Empowerment Measurement Index. Despite religious, constitutional and legal rights, women’s position in the society is weak. With each passing day, conditions are getting miserable as women are [...]

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Saad Khan tragedy, more revelations

This report was posted by Fahad Siddiqui the admin from the Facebook Group Say NO to Reality Shows As promised, we are now publishing a conversation with one of the contestants / eyewitness of the Clear man show. For confidentiality purpose we can not disclose the names of the people who were involved in this [...]

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Unilever reality show claims the life of my friend Saad Khan

By Farrukh Ahmed A little over a week ago, I got one of the most shocking news of my life. An ex-colleague and a good friend Saad Khan passed away during the shoot of a reality show being shot in Thailand. The show was organized by Unilever as part of their ad campaign for Clear [...]

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The ever changing MQM

By A.K.Chisti MQM is one political party which had been instrumental in not only bringing upon a change but had been in a constant state of introspection throughout her relatively short political years. It was obviously founded as a student reactionary force back in the ever rebellious late 1970’s and later transformed herself into a [...]

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Taliban Invasion of Pakistan and the American Response

By Ameer Bhutto In recent weeks and months, the Taliban advances in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan have come to pose a far more direct threat to the Pakistani state than ever before. Not only have they occupied Swat district in the North West Frontier Province under a peace deal with the Government [...]

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Hoisting the red flag amid green shadows

By : Farooq Tariq The historic and victorious lawyer’s movement was a rainbow of various political colour. One could see all sorts of political trends trying to give their colors to lawyer’s movement. There were greens like Jamaat-I Islami and Muslim League Nawaz, reds like Labour Party and National Workers Party. There was tri-color Pakistan [...]

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An open letter to the president of pakistan

By Barrister Ali.K Chisti My Dear President, I hope you are well..? I see you on the television every day with a wide smile and Mash’Allah you look younger than ever each passing day. My Dear President, I will come straight to the point, I am concerned as much as you are about the SWAT [...]

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Why are muslims suffering?

By Dr Khalid Zaheer A tiny minority of Muslims has engaged itself in a war (jihad) against the West in general and against the US, Israel, and India in particular. What they are doing through their military adventurism is causing the entire Muslim ummah suffering at the hands of the Jihadis and, because of their [...]

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An open letter to karachi

By Sitwat Rizvi I had no particular affinity with the city of Karachi having moved here only three months ago. When I came to Pakistan I was a little lost, a little lonely and completely out of touch with who I was or where I truly belonged. Luckily I stumbled upon The Citizens Archive of [...]

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