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Life on the Periphery in the Absence of Humanism

Syed Shah   Aug 5, 2007   interacts: 5

While the clergy and the liberal intellectuals bicker, the million dollar question remains where all the moderates have gone...

Life Beyond Chores

Javaria Farooqui   Aug 2, 2007   interacts: 20

She has everything life gives at its best; loving husband, bright obedient children and a comfortable home. “But I have no personal life."

Letter to My Unborn Son

Fawad Butt   Jul 29, 2007   interacts: 10

I always joke that “every parent gets an opportunity to screw up their kids in their own particular way”

The Seasons

Saad Mallik   Jul 25, 2007   interacts: 5

Versified version of an Urdu story by Farhatullah Beg

Moral Policing is the Same Everywhere

M B Qasmi   Jul 22, 2007   interacts: 7

The Lal Masjid\'s occupants might have changed, when will the moral policing system in Indian subcontinent change?

Smile, for the camera?

Tan Sar   Jul 19, 2007   interacts: 4

One day, years later when the event itself is forgotten and the photo somehow emerges, they will laugh at what they believe to be a

One Wall

Mark Robinson   Jul 19, 2007   interacts: 3

Hidden in silence
Surrounded by one wall

Pakistani Adoptions

Grace Kennedy   Jul 12, 2007   interacts: 15

About private adoptions from Pakistan

What Lies Beneath: Dispatch from the Frontlines of the Burqa Brigades

Fawzia Afzal Khan   Jul 5, 2007   interacts: 664

Ghazi Sahib,” I interjected, “ I want to know how it is okay in your book to be staring openly at me, and have your

Accepting Death

Mark Robinson   Jun 23, 2007   interacts: 8

Ignoring death is like cremating reality

Bad Vibes

ahmad hayat   Jun 21, 2007   interacts: 12

One should, at all costs, try not to enrage an intelligent man with authority and if one has to, it should be by the expression

The Agony of Remembrance

Ali Hashmi   Jun 13, 2007   interacts: 7

It may sound like a clich but being thankful for what you have right now is the only antidote to the longing for the good

The Indian American

sreelata menon   Jun 5, 2007   interacts: 3

A mixed up amalgam of diluted Indian traditions and strong western ideas, the Indian American appears to be a rootless, yet confident, brown entity aspiring

Female Image in the NWFP

Amer Khan   May 29, 2007   interacts: 52

A drive through Peshawar’s main roads shows the most perverse affects of gender selectivity.

A chain of thoughts

Raiya Hashmi   May 29, 2007   interacts: 3

Where to start?
What to mend?

Just a Woman

Aisha Sarwari   May 29, 2007   interacts: 127

I was used to the whistling, the smirks, the humming of latest Bollywood songs or even a religious proclamation of how great God is, this

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