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Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
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"woh koh-kun to naheeN tha leikin
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woh thhak chuka tha aur us ka teisha
usi ke seenay mein garr chuka hei" - Ahmed Faraz
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How real is your politik?
Shandana Minhas, Djinn and TonicAccording to many political pundits and media luminaries, people like you and me don’t understand it so we should mutely accept the PPP’s push for Zardari as president!!!
Aug 26, 2008 Views 2005 Interacts 97Politics
Writings on the Wall
Nadeem AkramI have been in a state of stupor for the last couple of days, ever since Mr. Zardari’s got himself nominated for the position of the President of Pakistan.
Aug 26, 2008 Views 541 Interacts 7Current Affairs
Time for Medals
Sarwar SukheraThe PPP has done it once again -- so true to its philosophy of challenging the powerful and the mighty and coming out victorious despite all the unfavorable odds stacked
Aug 26, 2008 Views 203 Interacts 1Society
Black Pencils
Fatima Mirza
jehad in a woman?
daggers in a jar full of berry-nectar
pleasant as honey-sugar
ordinary, crowd senses as usual.
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The Pink Side of Disney
Amna Chaudhry
Like Hannah, Barbie too had an ideal life. Except Barbie was a mere toy and that meant the endings to her stories were left to the imagination of the youthful
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Poet for Paperless People
Saeed UrrehmanDarwish was paperless and, because of his defiant words and politics, he was often imprisoned. He kept on honing his words as if they were weapons
Aug 25, 2008 Views 307 Interacts 7Column
In the Face of Adversity
Prashant Bhatt, Catalysts For ChangeThree courageous persons who are in compromised positions –physically, financially and socially, but have not lost their spirit.
Aug 24, 2008 Views 522 Interacts 3Law Liberties Justice
Celebrating 61 Years of Broken Dreams
AliHasan Cemendtaur"Missing in Pakistan", a 29-minute documentary capturing Pakistan's gross human rights violations tacitly supported by the US Government, followed by a talk by Safdar Sarki.
Aug 24, 2008 Views 766 Interacts 6History
Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh, Gandhi, Churchill and Jinnah
Anil KapuriaReviewing positions of three key players on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre - the watershed event of India’s independence.
Aug 22, 2008 Views 4371 Interacts 141US Elections 2008 Primaries
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