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Ode to my Peoples!

By Padash    Oct 18, 2009 interacts: 41

We will always have in common; a bourgeois Aunty, a ‘Vilayat’ palat, a hijabi conservative and a provocative nonconformist.

Half Alive Again: An Evening At Zawia Dahmaani

By Prashant Bhatt    Oct 27, 2009 interacts: 2

A piece from Tripoli, where there are tombs of soldiers from the subcontinent. Just as every country has a “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” every country should have the “Tomb of the Unknown Worker”.

Namal University, Another Landmark by ‘Taliban’ Khan

By Ahmer Muzammil    Oct 31, 2009 interacts: 17

I don’t always agree with Imran Khan on politics but I have no doubt that his stances and his point of view are sincere and not colored with self-interest.

The MF Husain Controversy: Identity, Intent and the Rise of Militant Fascism

By Beena Sarwar    Nov 3, 2009 interacts: 209

The campaign against the iconic Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain, perhaps the most prominent living symbol of art under attack, is part of the political fight for India’s soul – secular democracy versus a ‘Hindu’ state.

Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan

By Waleed Ziad    Nov 3, 2009 interacts: 22

Unless six key challenges of implementing aid in FATA are tackled, we’re wasting our tax dollars. And if we lose FATA, we lose this war.

Can We Fight Ideas With Guns?

By Shahzada Sultan    Nov 4, 2009 interacts: 3

Amid all this mayhem and unstoppable tragic loss of valuable lives, have we for a moment stopped and asked ourselves: “can we fight ideas with guns only?”

Crimson Gharara

By Foqia Sadiq Khan and Q Isa Daudpota    Nov 4, 2009 interacts: 13

Poem on Rawalpindi bomb blast

When Will You Return?

By Khalid Sohail    Nov 4, 2009 interacts: 34

In the beginning of our marriage I considered it a routine question of a typical wife and did not give it much importance. But gradually that question became my emotional problem.

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