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Malala Yousafzai, a 14 year Pakistani girl student and activist keen on getting education and advocating it for other girls, has been targeted by Taliban!

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Pakistan is a china shop and the bull is its ruling elites. They are on the rampage since the day this shop was established. The

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As for Photography, I believe in NO Manipulation! It’s the Photographer, and then his Camera and the World, the combination of which may produce a

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* Governments, i.e. ruling elites kill their own citizens, sometimes by their unwise vested policies as in Pakistan, and sometimes using the same weapons they

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So, this time Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) is on a mission to define Obscenity. It may be a political ploy and what’s the

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This evening I finished reading, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, by James Rachels (McGraw-Hill College, 3rd edition 1999; previous editions 1986, 1993). I have read

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It is no gainsaying that the government has completely failed the citizens of Pakistan by mismanaging the electricity generation and distribution. This government-made crisis is

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My reading room is 11 X 9 feet. The wall on the left contains built-in-wall shelves measuring 10.5 X 3.4 inches. Against the front wall

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As the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has recently clearly identified who are extremists and who are terrorists, and as these extremists

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Yesterday’s Pakistan Print Edition of International Herald Tribune contains Why waiting is torture, by Alex Stone. A very good piece which discusses our psychology of

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Usually I do not read statements and speeches given by government officials, elected or nominated; but only when due to the interest in a certain

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It’s strange but is true. Even after the constitution of 1973 was enforced, if we go through the writings, be they are Leftist or Rightist,

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This does not relate to the crimes states commit against one another. This takes exception to the crimes states, or Pakistani state, commit against their

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Now it’s a considered view of mine that it is in making rules, just rules, and following them, and implementing them across the board that

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This August 10, Alternate Solutions Institute released my 2nd Urdu book, Siyasi Partian Ya Siyasi Bandobast: A Philosophical Critique of Pakistani Politics. Copied below are

This is in continuation of a previous post, “Hind and Sindh civilizations and getting religion politicized.” As I see that, and ,of course, for that

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Recently I read an interview of Romila Thapar, renowned historian. Here are some questions and their answers which relate to the issue of religious identity

AFP reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged President Barack Obama to end the US “witchhunt” against his whistleblowing website, in a speech Sunday from

Reflections on various things: Signs of decline I am an integral part of this society; but I am an observer of it also. I feel,

“Gunmen who are believed to be Islamist militants attacked a major Pakistani Air Force base where some of the country’s nuclear weapons are thought to

Earlier in the post, The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan, the following was stated: “. . . the author thinks that humanity is entering

Reflections on various things: Entertainment in Pakistan It was in 2003 that I was in Ankara (Turkey); one of the acquaintances put a question that

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Today, on Pakistan’s independence day, www.google.com – how beautifully www.google.com used the Pakistan’s Truck-Art! Fantastic!

This February Alternate Solutions Institute released my first Urdu book, The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan (Pakistan Mein Riyasti Ashrafiya Ka Urooj). Here is

That rulers and ruled are different. That means governments and their citizens are different. That means ruling elites and the ordinary citizens are different. That