tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9739350853494124052024-02-19T13:02:05.685+05:00From my penAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04677538704700371141noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-80670522864259910032018-03-31T19:52:00.000+05:002019-01-09T11:33:24.585+05:00Malala's homecoming
Malala Yousafzai is by far the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history. She stands as an unwavering example around the world for her brave resolve to fight for what she believes in. Yet why is that she is despised by most in Pakistan, in her own native country?
In our country, instead of evidence, unfortunately public sentiments are guided by conspiracy theories, the rants of our conservative Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-14341842281338401382018-01-07T01:02:00.001+05:002018-01-07T09:15:49.441+05:00Trump and aid
In his first tweet of the new year, US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to Pakistan for accusations of lying to the US and offering 'little help' in hunting terrorists in Afghanistan.Not only Trump’s tweet sound highly undiplomatic, what provoked Mr Trump to single out Pakistan remains quite unclear. Just a few weeks ago, Trump praised Pakistan for starting to 'respect the United Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-73340549675963684152017-11-03T19:00:00.000+05:002018-01-07T00:20:13.537+05:00Woman who won Pakistan its only Oscar!
Not that there was ever doubt about the misogynist nature of
online trolling in Pakistan, but the attacks on Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on her
description of the Facebook request as ‘harassment,’ have marked a new high in
online hate on women.
Some on social media posted photographs of her with other
men - apparently suggesting these images made her a hypocrite for complaining
about alleged Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-40068979536148096712017-09-24T11:34:00.000+05:002018-01-06T23:36:49.161+05:00Of misogony and Gulalai Yousafzai
When female politician, 31, accuse the
cricket-star-turned-opposition-leader Imran Khan of sexual harassment, the venom
unleashed against her was unmatchable vicious.
As if Khan’s public denouncement and demand of PKR 30
million in compensation for damage to his reputation and “mental torture” was
not enough, the trolls took it on them to insult Gulalai in a way that reeked
of misogyny.
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-37042032342377495412017-08-01T22:06:00.000+05:002018-01-07T09:22:02.564+05:00Sans-Sharif!
The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office in a landmark decision on the Panama Papers case.
It is true that Sharif has been stripped of the prime ministership on quite narrow legal grounds. If the democratic project is to be sustained and strengthened, the rules of the system must be clear, fair and transparent.
Although, Sharif family's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41156010531794604812017-05-29T15:35:00.000+05:002017-06-02T11:53:48.063+05:00The ordeal of Kashmir
Farooq Dar was tied up on a spare tyre at the front of an armoured jeep and driven through villages of Srinagar, after a severe beating. Indian soldiers claimed he had been pelting stones at their patrol and the ordeal of him, tied on a tyre, would scare off others from doing the same.
On 22 May, the Indian army announced an award for the officer who tied Dar to the jeep for ‘sustained Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-30218384214982222112017-04-09T13:38:00.001+05:002017-04-09T16:07:56.226+05:00The Police 'Encounters'Yesterday, the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab claimed that in a terrorist encounter at 1:15, they killed 10-suspected Jamaatul Ahrar terrorists, including the handler of the bomber who carried out the suicide attack at Lahore’s Mall Road.
A firefight followed, in the dark? I’m sure our Counter Terrorism Department must have ‘night-vision goggles,’ or perhaps they are simply superb Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-52785417993904423152017-02-07T21:28:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:43:04.576+05:00Trump’s Muslim ban
Not everyone is perturbed by President Donald Trump's executive order to place travel restrictions on the citizens of selected Muslim countries.
Islamists and extremists that have long debated against the "evils" of democracy and the US - are likely having a "told you so" moment. However, there are politicians, such as Pakistan's Imran Khan, that are looking at the silver lining of this policy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-14632486445559894272017-01-20T23:02:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:15:01.344+05:00Freedom of speech that hurts other people's feelings
Five liberal activists, including poet Salman Maqsood had each gone missing separately since Jan. 4.
While the disappearance has raised many discussions on popular media and human rights activist on the state of freedom of speech in Pakistan and international community, it seems some human rights commentators here confuse freedom of speech as synonym of the right to offend.
Free speech is a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-84108835098812548862016-12-29T20:48:00.000+05:002017-03-09T20:58:57.776+05:00Tayyaba and child labourAs the heart-wrenching tale of Tayyaba, the child maid, allegedly tortured in Islamabad, surfaces – it raises more questions on child labour.
Many people in Pakistan would argue that if underprivileged and poor children are being given a means of supporting themselves and their families that can only be a good thing.
Certainly, when people from wealthy countries try to tell families in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-52150344705335462032016-11-12T18:18:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:27:57.018+05:00Why trump is good for Pakistan
Many in west argue, Pakistan is at best a sometimes-ally when it comes to counterterrorism. But Pakistan is equally taken as an enemy, a state sponsor of terrorism a host to anti-Afghan, anti-Indian, anti-west jihadi militants. It is widely alleged that Pakistan’s military and intelligence services prefer to maintain friendly ties with some terrorists for two reasons. For Pakistan’s strategists,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-9100824836071798822016-10-11T22:03:00.000+05:002017-03-09T22:06:51.778+05:00The honour killing bill
Pakistan on Thursday passed laws to increase sentences for rapists and those who commit so-called honour killings of women, and closed a loophole that allowed many of the killers to go free Goof development.
But it hurts that only about a third of the 446 lawmakers attended the session, but debate was raucous, with the loudest opposition coming from hard-line Islamists. Senator Hafiz Hamdullah Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-42769182553990344122016-05-07T21:06:00.000+05:002016-05-21T21:40:42.102+05:00To honour is...to love and protect!
15 years old Ambreen was dragged from her home, injected with sedatives,
strangled with ropes, tied up in a van and then burned while still alive.
Her crime: Helping her
school friend flee the village to marry of her own free will.
The ‘honour killing’ was ordered by a tribal jirga, including some family members of
the eloped girl, who then carried out the killing.
This is not the firstAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-20813314782899615072016-04-30T22:37:00.000+05:002016-05-21T22:32:15.811+05:00What is with Maulana Sherani, anyways!The latest in the series of imprudent remarks by Maulana Sherani is his comment this Sunday that the Panama Leaks were somehow a Western conspiracy aimed at destabilising Pakistani democracy and to ‘implement their nefarious designs in the country.’
This is of course not the first time Maulana Sherani has voiced any opinions that is not grounded in facts. His ignorance over the global state ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41087175731869335272016-02-12T23:02:00.000+05:002016-02-14T01:27:09.008+05:00Of Valentine’s Day and that advert
This morning, I spotted this ultimate advert at the back page of a leading daily, to my horror!
Why don’t I share this amazing sense of morality with the person who decided to place this advertisement? I wish I had such wits, but unfortunately, whatever angle I look at it, I just can’t seem to find the exact element which makes this worthy of a quarter-page advertisement in a top newspaper!
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-30182347412997260242016-02-07T13:35:00.000+05:002016-02-14T00:58:31.993+05:00When people like Maulana Sheerani govern our laws
Maulana Sheerani, Chairman Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), never falls short of stirring controversies every other month or so through his rounds of statements. In his latest statement to the press he announced that he intended to discuss three important issues in the meetings. (i) Deciding whether Ahmadis are non-Muslims or apostates; (2) Imposing jizya on non-Muslims (iii) determining whichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-46178330113718678162016-01-31T19:05:00.000+05:002016-02-14T00:52:25.384+05:00Killed in the name of honour
Shameen Obaid-Chinoy’s film on honour killing cases in Pakistan, A Girl in the River, got nominated for the Oscars today. It tells the story of a young woman who survived attempted murder by her father and uncle after she fell in love, eloped and married a man who was deemed ‘unsuitable’ by her family.
Talking about the film, Shameen Obaid-Chinoy, the film’s director says: ‘you can go into Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41820638316976356582015-11-02T19:14:00.000+05:002015-11-19T23:27:52.641+05:00Pakistan’s impunity for crimes against journalists<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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On
Global Impunity Index of Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP), Pakistan ranks
as the ninth worst country in the world in which journalists are murdered and
no one is brought to justice.
More than 70 journalists and media workers have lost their lives since 2001
while pursuing their duties in Pakistan – 47 of whom were deliberately targeted
and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-35023649841613305852015-10-26T21:16:00.000+05:002015-11-10T09:36:25.497+05:00When rape victims resort to self-immolation<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-81824525140048309622015-08-29T20:36:00.000+05:002015-09-01T20:55:40.924+05:00The vile mob justice
A sickening trend these days, particularly on slower news days, are 'breaking' news alerts on TV about random incidents of mob justices being carried out in streets, mostly for petty crimes. The perpetrators are mostly common thieves, or robbers in some cases, being caught up by neighbours, derogated or beaten up badly in public and then handed over to police. Not only these mob justice footagesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-84869734533318629602015-07-31T19:48:00.000+05:002015-08-09T05:41:58.964+05:00Because slums had no place in the city of elites
Hundreds of women and children stood mum watching as their mud-houses were turned into rubbles by bulldozers. Capital Development Authority (CDA) along with Police and Rangers today carried out the operation against the illegal slums in I-11 as per the decision of Islamabad High Court.
The All Pakistan Kachi Abadi Alliance estimates that over 2,000 families live in the area which houses Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-42992316228439322122015-06-10T22:30:00.000+05:002015-07-08T22:03:47.920+05:00The heart-wrenching tale of Aftab Bahadur<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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not only tragic, it is perverse.’
To me, this killing was
theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-71806420406122342852015-05-19T23:46:00.000+05:002015-07-02T21:47:02.554+05:00The shocking Safoora carnage<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Safoora attack has made it clear once again that: no one — absolutely no one
— who exists outside the narrow, distorted version of Islam, that these
militants cum terrorists promote, is safe in Pakistan.
The brutal attack against the Ismaili community also raises some very grave
questions in the context of Karachi and the security policy recently adopted Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-89948638922516172672015-05-01T20:10:00.000+05:002015-07-04T13:26:41.983+05:00Unsilencing Balochistan
Sabeen Mahmud, murdered on April 24 as she drove to her home. As harsh as it may sound, it is becoming increasing clearer that to
be liberal and outspoken in the Pakistan is equivalent to painting a
target in the middle of your forehead.
The bloodshed in Balochistan increasingly refuses to be swept under the
carpet. When the inquiry about mass graves in Khuzdar gets buried
in files, the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0