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Pakistan’s film industry shares a common culture with Indian film world. However, as Bollywood (inclusive of regional films)...
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2. Dharna
Eena: Sarah this lawn is fabulous. I think it is home couture. Meena: Oh! Have you seen new jumpsuits and fancy pants from Geometrics; so simple in design and so bold! Tina: Have you tried the cold press... | ||
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Animal rights’ situation in Pakistan is dismal. While dog fights and cockfights continue in Chakwal and KPK, wild boars are poisoned in Islamabad. As imported snakes suffer at Karachi zoo, bulls’ eye... | ||
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What do you think of honeymoon? If your wife, your child and a scholar of Islam are drowning, whom would you save?
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6. Vulgarity
Muslim League was created in Dacca, the movement for Pakistan took place in UP and Bihar but the country which later came into being was located on the West of the country where hardly anyone was int... | ||
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Since the Muslims of the sub-continent were divided into ethnic, linguistic, cultural, provincial, and class lines, the only thread...
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Although homosexuality is not a rare phenomenon in Pakistan, particularly in areas where there is significant...
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In the civilized world it is the citizens of a country who determine national interest through their “genuine” representatives. But when the people are disempowered...
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Perhaps less than one percent people in Pakistan have actually seen a Jew. Perhaps a fraction of that one percent has ever interacted with a Jew.
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Ajmal Qasab met his fateful end in an Indian jail. However, thousands stand lined-up to carry out similar “jehadi” missions inside and outside Pakistan while the supply chain is as vibrant as ever.... | ||
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Naeem Butt alias Noni Butt had already completed his B.Com from the “Best International University (BIU)” located in the centre of Begowala...
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The extreme emotionalism witnessed during the T20 cricket series throughout the entire length and breadth of Pakistan in the recent days is unprecedented.
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In April 2006, the Islamic Fiqah Academy of Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa giving sanctity to “Misyar”, which refers to a temporary marriage between two individuals and may even last an hour. It has n... | ||
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After killing three thousand US citizens on 9/11, the Muslims who did not resort to the conspiracy theory; American establishment and...
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It was Friday and I got up early in the morning. The first thing I did was to open up my Facebook page on the laptop. What I noticed was an ad on the...
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Since the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is Islamic in character, it is imperative that the Islamic injunctions are followed in letter and spirit. Hence a number of constitutional...
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As we remain enamored by our past achievements in the sciences, we forget that there is very little “original” we as...
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The US rover curiosity has landed on planet Mars and has begun its operations. It took almost five years to build this spacecraft at a cost of US $2.5 billion and it took eight months to successfully c... | ||
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He was an Ismaili and Ismailis are generally not considered a part of mainstream Islam .And while being an Ismaili, it was not easy to win over the Muslim constituency of India, he converted to Shiaism... | ||
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21. Jamaat-ud-Dawa
On April 4, two days after the announcement of a $ 10 million reward for actionable information leading to his arrest...
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On March 5, 2012 India blacklisted six armament firms for ten years for their alleged involvement in a 2009 weapons bribery scandal. In 1986, an arms scandal involving the Swedish...
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In most of the cultures, sex before marriage was tabooed historically, however, today it is an accepted norm in almost all Western societies.
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24. Fake Jihadi
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25. Child abuse
Nadeem Ikram and Zara Arshad, class fellows at the Government College Lahore, were very much interested in each other and had plans for marriage, as...
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26. Bureaucrat
Imran Rasheed qualified the CSS and was 38th on the final merit list. He later got allocated to the Customs Group, though his first choice was DMG. The Common Training...
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An interesting discussion centers on whether ‘Circumstances create leaders or leaders create circumstances’. Some contend that it is more a matter of character than of circumstance.
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28. Revolutionary
After the creation of the dominion of Pakistan on Aug 15, 1947, within a short span, the secular and liberal elements in the Muslim League gradually lost the battle...
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30. Deja vous
December 18, 2011 Lahore; Jan 22, 2012 Rawalpindi; Jan 29, 2012 Multan; Al-Jehad, Al-Jehad slogans reverberated through the tightly packed enclosures while the speakers directed their inflammatory rhe... | ||
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34. Breach
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In most of our narratives, the Eastern Theatre during the 1971 Indo-Pak war remains the focus of our attention.
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36. Bambai ka babu
The film “Bambai Ka Babu” released in 1960 had an extraordinary storyline---the lead character falling in love with a girl who is supposed to be his sister; an extremely difficult subject spectacul... | ||
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On 1st of December 2011, the Supreme Court of Pakistan had ordered the ex-Ambassador Hussain Haqqani (placed on Executive Control List, or ECL, by the Interior Division on the advice of the Supreme Co... | ||
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What we notice is a lot of hue and cry being raised by the civil society on the recent murder of three Hindu doctors in Shikarpur. I do not think it is justified in any reasonable context. They were Hi... | ||
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The Ottoman Empire was ruled by a single family for almost seven centuries (1301-1922). The entire power vested with a single ruler called the
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That time is fast approaching when we witness identical scenes all over the country. Tens of thousands of animals, for no fault of theirs, would be butchered in broad daylight for...
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The MQM, or Mohajir Quami Movement, was created on March 18, 1984 by Altaf Hussain. In 1997 the MQM replaced the...
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43. Ghazi to Qadri
During the 1920’s the Muslims from the Punjab province and the Hindu Arya Samaj were engaged in confrontational politics, when a pamphlet was ...
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Mohammad Siddiq, 45, has a small vegetable shop in Gawalmandi. He has a son and four daughters. His son, the youngest in his family works at an...
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45. Halwa in Hawaii
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As if the floods and epidemics, the terror and insurgency, the crumbling of state institutions, the energy crisis, the economic meltdown and the political misgovernance was not enough, the powers that ... | ||
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Science is a body of systematized knowledge based on observation and experimentation. Religion is a set of beliefs based on faith. Scientific propositions are falsifiable and...
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On completion of 50 years of her political career or meritorious services to the State of Pakistan, the sons of former Federal Minister Begum Kulsoom Saifullah launched her autobiography namely meri ta... | ||
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Earlier civilizations relied on the oral tradition to pass on advice and knowledge from one generation to the next.
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After a very hectic day all four of them had gathered at Les Papilles, an expensive restaurant of Paris. Adnan had lost a bet to Faheem and as penalty he was obliged to host a dinner party.
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The derogatory term and its connotations, still in use by some; Hindu baniya does not in any way reflect the reality. The Hindu shopkeeper or businessman, mostly in charge of business and trade in this ... | ||
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We were extremely poor yet we had books at home, said Ada Yonath, the 2009 Nobel laureate in chemistry from Israel .Six million Israelis buy twelve million...
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54. Abdus Salam
One was the son of a head clerk in the education department; the other, daughter of a small contractor, orphaned at 7, both from the Indo-Pak subcontinent won the Nobel Prize in 1979. Abdus Salam and A... | ||
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From a diverse and tolerant culture of fertile lands which characterized dance and music on festive occasions like holi and basant we transitioned to a culture of vast deserts where...
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Qurattulain Haider, writer of the greatest urdu novel “Aag Ka Darya” had come to Pakistan in 1949. By then she had attained the stature of a world class writer. She joined the Press Information...
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The moral degeneration of the West is complete and comprehensive. The lack of any moral and ethical principles and a culture of wine, sex and nudity would shortly destroy the whole Western civilization... | ||
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Although the Two-Nation theory did suit the interests of some, it was a total negation of the concept of pluralism and mutual coexistence. It also stipulated that...
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“Tragedies darken when their victims refuse to understand the causes. Intellectual failure has thus been the principle deficit; which means the so-called men of intellect are to blam... | ||
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On Oct 24, 1954 Governor General Ghulam Mohammad dissolved the constituent assembly and proclaimed emergency throughout Pakistan. This action by Ghulam Mohammad was greatly welcomed by a number of pol... | ||
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On October 19, 2010, 75 women on an Islamic airliner (Gulf Air) traveling to perform Hajj were off boarded at Quaid-e-Azam International Airport Karachi, as they were not having a mehram... | ||
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Music remained an integral part of all performing arts in the sub continent. Prior to film making, it was extensively being used in drama and theatre, so when these forms of art were incorporated in fi... | ||
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One of the most memorable dialogues of the 1975 blockbuster Sholay was “kitnay aadmi thay” and in reply the bandit ashamedly says “do aadmi thay”, this response turns Gabbar Singh the gang lead... | ||
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When we look at the history of political dynasties in the area which now constitutes Pakistan, we find that in most cases, the origins of the rise of these dynasties lie in the service of the mighty an... | ||
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The first attempt on media and free speech in Pakistan was made by Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan and associates when they tried to black out some passages of the Aug. 11, 1947 speech of Mohammad Ali Jinnah befor... | ||
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While addressing 123rd PMA Long Course at Kakul, Abbotabad, on 23rd April 2011, General Kayani, the COAS informed that the backbone of terrorists had been broken. One thousand meters away in a ... | ||
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Societies and cultures where people have separated matters of faith from matters of fact, personal beliefs from scientific reasoning, the predicaments of heart from that of the head, and have learned to ... | ||
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Those who commit suicide are generally the ones with a low self-esteem, may have intense feelings of guilt, and almost in all cases suffer from depression. On the other hand, the psychology of suicide ... | ||
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71. The homecoming
It was twelve noon. In the lawn of Fountain House Lahore, an institution for the mentally ill, all three of them were sitting under a tree, next to each other, since early morning. Today they were to fac... | ||
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72. The unsung
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Writing textbooks for students who are in a formative stage is serious business. Errors and omissions on part of the writers, due to lethargy, ignorance, or self-complacency are pardonable and can be cor... | ||
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It was 28th of February. I got up early at 6.AM to watch the 83rd Oscars live on Star Movies. To honor the best pictures of 2010, the ceremony took place at Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, and was jointly host... | ||
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In less than two months time a sitting Governor of the largest province and the only Christian minister in the federal cabinet, both from the ruling party, have been gunned down in broad daylight, in t... | ||
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His Highness Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Agha Khan the 3rd GCSI, GCMC, GCIE, GCVO, PC, Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India was the first president of the Muslim League. As long as the ... | ||
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz remained Editor-in-Chief of the “Pakistan Times” from 4th February 1947 to March 1951-till his arrest by the Government of Pakistan. The editorials of the newspaper were written by e... | ||
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Revolution refers to drastic change in thinking and behaving in the cultural, economic and socio-political context. Socio-economic deprivation or gross disparity or conflict of interest among competing... | ||
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82. Let’s fry Munni
Our very own Munni Ms Veena Malik is back in the news with a big bang courtesy big boss – an Indian reality show which has generated lots of controversy in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. On 21st Jan... | ||
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Those portrayed as national heroes’ impact our lives. We are enthralled by them. We tend to idealize them. Regardless of their integrity and behavior we often become enamored with their power and statu... | ||
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Waseem Altaf
Salman Taseer, the lone ranger was a pure soul, unlike most of our politicians who are scared of speaking the truth. He stood for the right cause and sacrificed his life for wh... | ||
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During British Raj Baluchistan did not enjoy the status of a province but comprised four princely states namely: Makran, Kharan, Lasbela and Kalat. The Khan of Kalat was the Head of the confe... | ||
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