Category: Current Affairs
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Ayodhya Verdict: Indian Muslims will always be second-class citizens
The so-called “historic” verdict by the judges of the Allahabad High Court in India has been welcomed by rabid Hindu fanatics because they now feel they can go ahead and demolish all the remaining mosques in India. Instead of recognizing that Muslims were the owners of the land on which the Babri Masjid had stood…
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Dr. Imran Farooq Murder Conspiracy: By a MQM Supporter
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons or property will be safe. This is what always happens in Pakistan after any major incidents. People forget some basic teaching…
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Aafia Siddiqui Sentence: Open Letter from Yvonne Ridley
Did Judge Berman make a mistake? Will US Attorney General call for a mis-trial? Yvonne Ridley writes an Open Letter Dear Mr Holder, I am a journalist and film-maker who has been investigating the rather intriguing case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui since her disappearance with her three children in 2003. Can you please tell me…
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Bihari Qaumi Movement (BQM) – another split in MQM?
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was originally formed as Muhajir Qaumi Movement in early 1980s, claiming to protect the rights of Muhajirs, the immigrants who left their homes in India to come to Pakistan in and after 1947. These Muhajirs mainly belonged to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states of India. Arriving in Karachi, the capital of…
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Ignorance vs Rising Suicides!
The present pathetic state of governance has effected nearly every segment of our society, but undoubtedly its those living marginally above and below the poverty line who are on the real receiving end. Sky rocketing prices of daily use articles, increasing unanswered taxes on service as well as the growing unemployment is working as a…
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MQM leader Dr. Imran Farooq assassinated in London
A former Pakistani parliamentarian, one of the founding members and former convener of party’s coordination committee of Muttehada Qaumi Movement (MQM), Dr. Imran Farooq has been tragically stabbed to death in London on his way back home from a walk on the day of 57th Birthday of MQM leader Altaf Hussain. According to media reports…
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After the Rape: The Mukhtar Mai Story
In 2002, a neighboring village council ordered that Mukhtaran Mai, an illiterate peasant living in a distant part of Punjab, be gang raped as punishment for an alleged affair her brother had with a woman of that tribe. Mukhtar refused to be a victim; she “fought against the culture of silence and shame,†demanded justice…
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Marching Kashmir and the Shameless Silence!!
Kashmiris in the occupied territory have protested as long as I can search my memory, and the issue has been highlighted time and time again with nearly the same result….. “Ignorance†Till now it was the international power centers ignoring their voice and one comes up readily with the justification being the “power politicsâ€. But…
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Why Pakistan celebrate two Eids every year?
For some reason, a cleric in Qasim Masjid in Peshawar has been able to collect about twenty men (having remarkably good eyesight) who claim they saw the moon, when it wasn’t there. This has been going on for over fifty years. I was in Peshawar in 1973, and saw Eid-al-Azha being observed on two days…
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Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi – First Pakistani Tennis player to qualify for the Finals of US Open
The quest of Pakistanis to heed joyful news after facing worst ever tragedy of history like Air Blue crash, devastating floods, Sialkot massacre and Cricket corruption scandal ends just before Eid. Pakistan’s sensational Tennis star, Aisam ul Haq Qureshi has added another feather to his cap by qualifying for the Finals of Mixed Doubles of…