Archive for June, 2008
Local liberal dribble
After much prompting and insistence from younger men and women, I finally decided to watch Shoaib Mansoor’s Khuda Ke Liye (KKL) on DVD. Before I begin my belated review of the film, I must confess my admiration for Mansoor for being brave enough to actually construct a full-length feature on a rather imposing and controversial [...]
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The holy mind blow
For those looking for a deeper, more spiritual understanding of the spreading interest in Islam among the young, educated men and women, you will be disappointed to note that you are nothing more than a target market for just another form of capitalism: religious marketing.
In the last couple of years, a series [...]
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When doves cried
The violence that made the Zia dictatorship ban student unions in 1984 was not due to student unions, but rather the handiwork of the dictatorship.
I’m afraid those bemoaning the revival of student unions in Pakistan have only little knowledge of the subject’s history; especially when they suggest that student unions and student organisations were the [...]
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