Posted on December 29, 2007 by afaq
Last night I was passing by the main avenue when I saw some flickering lights in the distant. It was Pakistan peoples party office and the large portraits of Z. A. Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were wrapped in the pitch darkness of the night. In the foreground were people with candles in their hands. It was a candle light [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2007 by afaq
December 27, 2007. United nations’ security council is said to meet shortly to talk about the post Bhutto scenario and the developments in Pakistan. A news report on CNN and BBC just cofirmed.
The whole world is shocked and is grieving Benazir Bhutto, the heir to the legacy of late Z. A. Bhutto.
They killed Ms. Benazir Bhutto [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2007 by afaq
“Hamas is the modern day Adolf Hitler. Destroy it ASAP”. “Its evil incarnate”. All these slogans and answers to this question are great emotional upheavals. But is this “all” the realiy? or is there something more to it than we are fed with through our beloved newsmedia.
What about Christian democrat parties, by the way. What [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2006 by afaq
Professor Farid Esack is a well known writer and teaches at Harward divinity school. He has lately asserted that anybody who considers himself not bothered about the poor and hates women cannot claim to be a liberal, a Muslim or even a human being. His views express the true Islalmic teachings. The present Pakistani society [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2006 by afaq
Education in Pakistan is what we obtain to look smart and earn better. It gives us a sense of being superior. And being superior is what matters in Pakistan. Hardly anything is done in the daily life of people which misses this one aspect of self praise. This self praise and importance-in-your-own-eyes takes many shapes and forms. [...]
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