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Why we should be concerned that our children are growing immune to terrorist...
We don’t realise how terrorist attacks affect our children indirectly. Have we ever stopped to think how it is changing our younger generation’s behaviour pattern?I will never forget the conversation I...
View ArticleHow Pakistan can save more lives at the site of bomb blasts
As a doctor who has worked at sites of suicide bombings, I have realised that Pakistan is in a far more deplorable state in terms of emergency medical assistance than I had thought. Countless lives can...
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How the Illuminati, a revolution, and American English are invading us
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Wife: Puppu pass hogaya.Husband: Really?Yes. Please congratulate him when he comes back from school.How do you know that?Know what?Pappu pass hogaya.I have his report...
View ArticleWhat does the recent shooting in Quebec City mean for minorities in Canada?
There is no safe place left anymore.It is hard to imagine a quieter suburb than Sainte Foy and a town quainter than Quebec City. But this façade of calm and peace collapsed Sunday night when at least...
View ArticleWhy liberal politics is no answer to prevent the disappearances of activists
One of the most common liberal responses to the excesses committed by the powerful in Pakistan is to call for people to ‘speak out’. This familiar refrain, voiced often in the aftermath of the January...
View ArticleChina, not America, likely behind Hafiz Saeed's house arrest
The biggest question about Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest isn’t why, but why now?After all, we’ve been here before. He was placed under house arrest in December 2008, just days after the Mumbai terror...
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Pakistan: The lesser-known histories of an ancient land
The first people Long before the emergence of the great Indus Valley Civilisation on the banks of River Indus 5,000 years ago, the earliest known people to make present-day Pakistan their home were the...
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Helping people at Chicago airport is the beginning of my fight against...
My father always wanted me to be a lawyer. Like many Muslim parents, he was thinking of a job that was safe, secure, and lacking in ostentation. So I went to law school, passed the Bar Exam in my first...
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Has Lahore forgotten why January 26 was chosen as India's Republic Day?
The Ferozepur road, one of Lahore’s arterial thoroughfares, evokes a lot of nostalgia. Starting from the Walled City, connecting several small ancient hamlets on the way, including Ichra, Mozang, Amar...
View ArticleI'll never forget the day Burhan Wani was killed
This blog was originally published on October 29, 2016.The news first broke when I was in the north of Kashmir in Vijbal, a town of less than a hundred households.My cousins had invited me for dinner...
View Article'Security situation' is the reason Taimur was shot. What is 'security...
In a police state, we all live on a knife’s edge. And the slightest error in judgment on part of a citizen may have lethal consequences. This ever-present fear is inconsistent with our vision of a free...
View ArticleDear Imran, a leader who wants to fix Pakistan would never propose a US visa ban
On January 27, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order which barred nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the US for 90 days, as well as indefinitely suspending the...
View ArticleAs a Jewish person, I won’t stand idly by as Muslims are targeted in North...
My grandfather Morris wasn’t even 14 years old when he had to flee Kozmyn, a small village in Russia, by himself in 1904. Geopolitics had invaded the young boy’s life. The Czar’s soldiers had come to...
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Here is how Pakistanis actually reacted to Trump's Muslim ban
From a Pakistani TV soap character Dear … sob sob … Sartaj Trump …Please …sob sob … sartaj, don’t put a travel ban on us. Please don’t behave like my mother-in-law … sob sob … even though, I think it...
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By grabbing a cobra by its head, one woman changed her Tharparkar tribe forever
From inside a straw hut she had built, Meeran pulled out a small, woven basket and opened the lid covered in a swatch of azure blue fabric. With quick, nimble fingers she nudged the coiled cobra...
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Concerned US and Canadian Muslims weigh in on rising Islamophobia
Last month, North America witnessed instances of blatant Islamophobia and religious and racial hatred. Not long after the new American president Donald Trump announced a visa ban on seven...
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How the Virgin Mary brings together different faiths in Pakistan and India
For many members of threatened minority communities, places of worship offer solace. Last year, more than 70 Christians were killed while celebrating Easter in a park in 2016. The forced conversion of...
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‘At once silent and eloquent’: a glimpse of Pakistani visual poetry
Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paperThis line from Ghalib refers to what he claimed to be ancient Persian tradition of petitioners wearing...
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The hidden 'evil' of Valentine’s Day
We have been warned over and over again about terrorists and extremists. These warnings are entirely biased. They only speak of stereotype terrorists and extremists; or those who may actually be, and...
View ArticleHow shrines helped indigenise Islam and Christianity in South Asia
The blog was originally published on January 9, 2017.At least once a month, I drive down to Lahore from Islamabad using the Motorway. Just before the Jhelum River, as the Salt Range and Potohar Plateau...
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