Violence Against Women: The Barbarians Within Us

Posted on May 10, 2010
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Sehar Tariq We all remember the barbaric footage of the Taliban flogging a young girl in Public. Chillingly similar was the story of the police in Faislabad, flogging a woman who had gone to report a theft. We all remember the months of debate on whether the flogging of the girl in Swat was authentic […]

Happy Mother’s Day: Remembering Mother

Posted on May 9, 2010
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Bradistan Calling Mother Beloved moved to her Heavenly abode on 27 December 2008, but a part of her died a year earlier in the catastrophe that struck Pakistan on 27 December 2007 when prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed. Benazir Bhutto used to come to her house for delicious Pakistani food, during her exile in […]

Anti-Americanism & the Making of Faisal Shahzad

Posted on May 8, 2010
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Pervez Hoodbhoy The man who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was a Pakistani. Why is this unsurprising? Answer: because when you hold a burning match to a gasoline tank, the laws of chemistry demand combustion. As anti-American lava spews from the fiery volcanoes of Pakistans private television channels and newspapers, […]

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