Archive for March, 2008
Eat this, Charlie Wilson!
An obvious strain of fatigue has started to set in across purveyors of and apologists for jihadists and the reminiscing nostalgic glorifiers of the American and Pakistani involvement in the anti-Soviet Afghan war. As the fallout of that war rips across cities louder and deadlier than ever, films such as Charlie Wilson’s War start seeming [...]
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Hole in the sky
With paradise on the soon-to-explode guy’s mind, there is, of course, also that attractive matter of houris awaiting him there. Bright wide-eyed maidens pending for those who have done good deeds in this world!
How is one to reason with a person who exhibit’s the ultimate extremes of irrationality by getting ready to explode himself up [...]
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Sketch, murder, art
I am right in line o denounce the anish cartoons. condemn such social fanaticism indulged in in the name of liberalism. But I shall also keep a foot or two in the thought pool that accuses the Pakistani denouncers of reeking of hypocrisy in this respect.
lam not going to go into the intellectualities behind the [...]
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Turning crimson
The JI has always had the knack for sounding louder and looking bigger when quivering outside the democratic process and parliament.
By the time I enrolled as a student of political science at the University of Karachi in the late 1980s, ideological battles that were once fought through the ballot on campuses between various student parties [...]
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