Author: Asma Qadir
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God’s “allowance”
Recently I happened to visit the Islamabad Kachehree in F-8 where my father needed to get some “stamp†papers for validation of my brother’s Nikah. Exhausted from the day’s work, I trudged along at 5 in the evening as we passed by shabbily built quarters serving as different law companies’ offices. I was reminded of…
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Happy 62! Why Debate on Pakistan Ideology continues?
Happy Independence Day to all! ————————— Well obviously that’s not why …
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Tu Hai Eik Aam Admi … Aur Ab Bas Nahi Hota
Yah right! You can’t just get away with that now. There’s no military dictator sitting over your …
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elections all again…and much more too!
Wavering from the boycott camp to the enthusiastic voter, I am in a fix as elections draw near. I…
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Elections 2008
With the kind of political scenario shaping up and if Musharraf is to have his way yet again, Naw…
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Back…
I was disillusioned by the power of the pen so quit writing. My inability to support my belief in…
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Why the nation doesn’t come out on the streets!
Yesterday we all saw the brutal machinery of the state at display. A hundred or so lawyers whose …
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Two long weeks and stumped???
Despite the fact that speculations were making the rounds in Islamabad of late about the predicte…
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Twenty20 World Cup: The final as it was
And so ends a beautiful dream, flawless till the very end and since it didn’t end well, all is no…
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Of symbols and rituals
Our society so reeks of symbolism. Apparent is all that we as a society often settle for, not bec…