Archive for January, 2008
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Chaudhary deeyan Chooriyaan
Language: Generally obnoxious. Available in Punjabi, Pushto, Urdu and Balochi. But not in Sindhi. They’re traitors.
Synopsis: A mumbling chaudhary likes to wear chooriyaan and keep quiet whenever goondas besiege his pind, committing rape, torture, robberies and other atrocities. However, when one of his Sindhi nemeses is killed and there is a reaction, [...]
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Confessions of an absurdist
Much as I was impressed by the way Benazir had so brilliantly reinvented herself on her return, now I can actually say the same for Mian Nawaz Sharif.
I reached the voting age in 1988 and since then I have voted in all the elections, rigged or otherwise. I’ve had no qualms in confessing as to [...]
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Mass difference
Populist, mass-oriented politics can effectively cancel out the two most prominent anti-populist strains in Pakistan i.e. the politico-religious and the elite-bourgeois.
My good friend Fasi Zaka called me on the second day of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, sounding extremely troubled by some insensitive comments against her that he had come across on certain “civil society” websites.
At [...]
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