Adil Najam I am reminded today of that great sher by that great sage, Jaun Elia: koun is ghar ki dekh bhaal karey roz ik cheez toot jati hai The news is that the MQM has decided to sit in opposition at the Federal level (key word: “Federal level”). Supposedly the JUI is also sitting […]

Adil Najam Read this news from The Express Tribune and tell me how this is not idiotic: KARACHI: A doctor has been arrested on charges of blasphemy in Hyderabad, police said on Sunday. Naushad Valiyani was detained on Friday following a complaint by a medical representative who visited the doctor in the city of Hyderabad. […]

Faiz and Our National Identity

Posted on November 30, 2010
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Aisha Sarwari The Mard-e-Momin as a form of national identity is overrated. So is the concept of the collective morality and the religious honor that gets everyone keyed up, ready to take up arms against an aggressor. The biggest aggressor, after all, remains poverty, bread within. Real tyranny is that which the state practices against […]

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