Author: Shakir Lakhani
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Why not have a directly elected President?
According to the 1973 constitution, the president of the federation is just a useless figurehead….
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Black magic didn’t work on me
Three days after I had sacked some trouble-makers, Abbas (the supervisor in my salt factory) came…
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13-year old pregnant girls in United States
I frequently come across people who make sweeping statements. Someone claimed in this blog the ot…
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LA Times on Pakistani Cross Dresser Ali Saleem
Most Pakistanis know Ali Saleem, 28, as Begum Nawazish Ali, a middle-aged widow who welcomes …
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Conspiracy theories
For some reason, Pakistanis have a conspiracy theory for every incident that adversely affects th…
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Time to abolish the death penalty
The death penalty was abolished in the European Union and other countries after it was realized t…
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Why is education so expensive?
Way back in 1981, I got my three year old daughter admitted into a newly-opened private school wh…
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Rain havoc in Dubai and Sharjah
Dubai and Sharjah residents have been shocked by the way their lives have been affected by …
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Honest leaders wanted
I saw serious power shortages in the early 1950s, and I see the same thing now. At least, when I …
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Thirst for entertainment
One of the few differences between humans and apes, despite both having near-identical brains and…