Monday, October 27, 2014

Pankaj Mishra and his discontents...

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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...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Hazara Genocide: Are the police just stupid or is there more to it?

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As the systematic genocide against the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan continues unabated, Mohammed Hanif has a good piece on his inter...
Monday, October 20, 2014

"we are muslims"

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...“We have source besides the (Pakistan) army…people in Kashmir are fighting....just need to incite them.. .. we can fight with the (Indi...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

High Court Upholds Death Sentence on Aasia Bibi

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Setting new records of shamelessness and spinelessness, the Lahore High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to Aasia bibi for ...
Friday, October 10, 2014

A huge win for the Ummah today

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As Malala becomes the youngest ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Geography is indestructible

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The Face of the Ummah -
Monday, October 6, 2014

Imran Khan: between a rock and a hard place

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For the past one month, Imran Khan has been spending several hours a day on top of a container in the heart of Islamabad, demanding that the...

Sun wey bilori akh waaleya

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The original  The Coke studio version from Meesha Shafi Whatever you may think of the new effort ("desecration of the ori...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Haider - a spectacular tour de force

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Lady V & I just managed to catch Haider and I have to say it was a great adaptation of Hamlet in Kashmir. In Kampala I see Shakespearean...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Pashtun power play(s)

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....The Pushtuns are divided among the Durrani, Ghilzai, Waziri, Khattak, Afridi, Mohmand, Yusufzai, Shinwari..... each tribe is divided ...