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Opinion |
The truth about us
Ghazi Salahuddin
Sunday, November 04, 2012 2
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| We have this young girl, still in her teens, who has shown the courage to stand up for high ideals that this country must honour to survive and prosper. And we have this young lady who represents the political elite and the ruling class of this country. more |
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Stories, fables and frightening tales
Kamila Hyat
Thursday, November 01, 2012
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| We read reports, hear strange stories and come across new tales almost every day. Some appear in the media, some are flown across cyberspace into our in-boxes and some come to us by word of mouth....... more |
Violence and the media
Dr A Q Khan
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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| Every day 15 to 20 innocent people are murdered in Karachi, including some eminent religious scholars. Miscreants even managed to kill with impunity several people attending a public meeting arranged for Nafisa Shah, daughter of Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. Another la...... more |
The Taliban and Al-Khidr
S Iftikhar Murshed
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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| Like a pigeon in a trap desperately beating its wings, the government has demonstrated that it does not have the spine to take decisive military action in North Waziristan where only the writ of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its terrorist affiliates prevails. . ..... more |
Folly of indifference
Taj M Khattak
Saturday, October 27, 2012
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| When Malala blogged that she has a right to education, to sing and be happy, she probably didn’t realise that she was writing for history. Whether the power of her these words and her unfortunate ordeal will go far enough to change Pakistan forever is difficult to predict, as already doubts ..... more |
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A life sentence
Chris Cork
Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| As the assassination of the character of Malala Yousafzai continues apace while she languishes in a British hospital, it is worth considering where we have got to.......... more |
Under threat
Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| The Taliban may be seeking to hunt down other young girls in the country who, like Malala Yousafzai, have dared to oppose the Taliban’s edicts against education for women.......... more |
The battle for Malala
Naeem Sadiq
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| A brutal attack on an innocent little girl has finally nudged awake our sleepy collective conscience. Will this be the long awaited moment of truth, or will Malala be remembered as just one of those endless sad events that have now come to be part of our daily existence.......... more |
Fairy tale
Chris Cork
Monday, October 22, 2012 |
Once upon a time there was a young girl called Malala Yousafzai. She lived in a beautiful valley with her Mummy and Daddy and like the good girl that she was she went to school every day.
One day some bad men came to the valley where she lived.......... more |
If they come to kill me
S Iftikhar Murshed
Monday, October 22, 2012 |
The writer is the publisher of Criterion quarterly.
Only children are blessed with the priceless gift of spontaneity. They have the ability to express their innermost thoughts, their fears and their hopes in simple words that stir the soul.......... more |
Where are the boys?
Asna Ali
Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| As the story of the attack on Malala Yousafzai unfolds and journalists chew on its many angles while Malala herself fights to live, the question that has been nagging me is: why aren’t there more boys like her? No teenage male bloggers are recounting their experiences of living in Swat or elsewhere.......... more |
Malala and the ‘terrorist mindset’
Asif Ezdi
Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| The attack on Malala Yousafzai was an act of primitive barbarism and is utterly reprehensible. Equally condemnable is the “justification” offered by the Taliban for the gruesome deed and their threat to repeat it. They have now claimed that she was targeted not for her advocacy of girls’ education but because she was supporting Taliban’s enemies.......... more |
Not by religion alone
Ghazi Salahuddin
Sunday, October 21, 2012 |
| Secularism is deemed to be a dirty word in Pakistan. But it is an idea whose time has come. In fact, it may already be too late. We now stand effectively disconnected from the freedom movement that was led by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his associates.......... more |
O’ Malala
Arsal Awais
Sunday, October 21, 2012 |
| Terrorist attacks do not take place in a vacuum. The attack on little, beautiful Malala did not take place in a vacuum. For terrorism to be effective terrorists need two things: physical space (read: a tract of land of their own where they can plan.......... more |
Feeding
a monster
Salma Yousuf
Saturday, October 20, 2012 |
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The media has been flooded with news stories revolving around the
attack on Malala Yousafzai. The coverage is almost unprecedented.
Every newspaper and TV channel has been running her story as headline
news ...... more |
Stand up
Aasim Zafar Khan
Saturday, October 20, 2012 |
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Consensus on matters of national concern has never been one of Pakistan’s
strong points. Take any issue on the national level, be it education,
the economy, healthcare, employment and the like, and you will find
that the vote is split. Into a million litt. ...... more |
Turning point for Pakistan
Aijaz Zaka Syed
Saturday, October 20, 2012 |
Dubai eye
In the lives of individuals as well as nations sometimes seemingly
small, inconsequential incidents can set off profound, watershed changes.
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Victims
of bravery
Saleem Safi
Friday, October 19, 2012
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The day bullets were fired in Malala Yousafzai’s head, I appeared
in the Geo News programme “Aapas Ki Baat”. As the programme
ended, I received a call from the spokesperson ..... more |
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Monuments
to confusion
Ayaz Amir
Friday, October 19, 2012 |
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So Malala deserved to die. “We targeted her because she would
speak against the Taliban while sitting with shameless strangers and
idealised the biggest enemy of Islam, Barack Obama.” Thus the
warriors of the faith, trying to justify the unjustifiable. .....
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A
star is born
M A K Lodhi
Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
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A star is born as a symbol of change and a beacon of light for a progressive
and liberal Pakistan of tomorrow. Malala Yousafzai is a flower which
has sprouted from the very grounds where the dark forces ruled briefly,
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Time
to take responsibility
Kamila Hyat
Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
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What does Malala Yousafzai have to do with drones? How can the 14-year-old
school girl, who today struggles for survival in a UK hospital, have
anything to do with the unmanned aircraft that swoop over our northern....
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Malala
is a mirror
Talat Farooq
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
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And just when one’s defence mechanism had kicked in and one
could hear about (other) people dying in terror attacks without losing
one’s sleep, Malala decided to shake us to the core of our beings.
Malala is the.... more |
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Not
in her name
Ahmed Quraishi
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
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Malala Yousafzai is one more Pakistani whose story symbolises this
nation’s resilience, talent and strength. Unfortunately, it
is also a story on its way to becoming.... more |
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10
questions for Imran Khan
Farrukh Saleem
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
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Q 1: Sir, you have always maintained that militants are taking innocent
Pakistani lives because the militants are being attacked by American
drones. But the militants insist that they would “kill everyone
and.... more |
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Blogs |
Is Malala a Conspiracy?
Madeeha Ishtiaque
10 16, 2012
With the recent buzz made by certain newspapers and social media platforms,
the questions that has popped up with a bang is, what is the ... more |
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A Girl who Could Speak Her Mind
Zahra Ottens
10 15, 2012
Malala is a strong person. Very few will appreciate her strength in
speaking out for her rights. I know because as a woman, albeit from
the privileged ... more |
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Nothing Right about Right To Education
M. Saad Khan
10 15, 2012
We Demand Protection of this Right for ALL Children The horrifying
news of attack on Malala Yousafzai – the young champion for
girls... more |
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