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Rally for peace
Five score and thirty years ago a boy was born to a middle class family who had just moved from their first lodging in a new Pakistan (kharadar) to a more leafier suburb of Karachi. It had taken this family about 27 years to get into the position of owning the house they were moving [...]
Continue reading...Rendezvouz with sohail anjum
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Sohail Anjum is a name synonymous with photography in the U.K. Born and bred in London, this son of emigrants from Pakistan started his career when he dropped out of college and took up this field of work. Over the years he has taught himself the art of capturing life and has emerged as a [...]
Continue reading...Debunking myths about shia’s part I
Thursday, December 24, 2009
I have always had a fascination with religion and religious history. If one would try to categorize my curiosity, I would be a type A, total fantasist about what lies beyond and the one to always ask the craziest of questions right from childhood about my religion, my ancestry and so on. It has stood [...]
Continue reading...Is there no hope?
Friday, October 23, 2009
It gets harder and harder to write everyday. So bizarre is the scenario in Pakistan that the news feed jacked into my mind is full of people exploding at different places, human bombs strike us every day, killing all around them in their suicides. Every single day brings reports of suicide bombings in different cities [...]
Continue reading...Opinion flaws
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The talk of the town these days is suicide bombings being undertaken by what the media claims are Islamic Zealots and Fanatics. What is perhaps very interesting to note is that the garb of Islamism over the past few decades of our country’s existence has been worn by all sorts of people ranging from fundos [...]
Continue reading...14th Aug and aftermath
Saturday, August 15, 2009
When on the morning of 13th Aug sid gave the rallying cry for the #blaggers to assemble it felt surreal. The #gogreen team pioneered and headed by our mad scientist/blogger Farhan Masood had been working hard over weeks for this day. The idea being to turn twitter and facebook into a virtual sea of green [...]
Continue reading...Euthanasia- justified according to Utilitarianism?
Friday, January 23, 2009
Mercy Killing or Euthanasia is becoming an increasingly common way to end life – Irrespective of whether it’s active or passive, it raises certain ethical concerns . According to BBC’s Religion and Ethics and WIkipedia Voluntary euthanasia The person wants to die and says so. This includes cases of: * asking for help with dying * refusing burdensome medical treatment * [...]
Continue reading...10 lessons all Pakistanis must learn
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
By Hassan Baig “Mulk khud hi chalta rehay ga” (approximate translation: the country doesn’t need our contribution to thrive) is a sentence many Pakistanis are prone to saying. I confess that till a few years ago, I myself was confident of this misleading notion. Misleading and dangerous – especially in today’s volatile climate. As Pakistanis, it [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan, an “international migraine”
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has described Pakistan as an “international migraine ” and argued that the South Asian country will be one of the hot spots that the next American president will have to contend with. Albright, who served President Bill Clinton in his second term of office, said Pakistan gives you “an international migraine” [...]
Continue reading...The debt we owe Pakistan
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Its very very hard to live in Pakistan these days. Not because everyone who has any resources is threatening to leave or at least thinking about it. Not because of the violence and the chaos that surrounds this country. When one lives here one gets immune to these things even though they have become much [...]
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
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