Archive for April, 2009
Questions about burning
Nadeem Farooq Paracha gets into another tricky conversation.
Recently I happened to meet a young man who was born and raised in Manchester, in the UK. He had returned to his parents’ country with his siblings in 2006, some seven months after the dreadful 7/7 episode. He approached me while I was returning from the parking [...]
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Lord of Flog
Salaam, Jamat Bin Jihad Bhai
Walaikumaslam!
How are you today?
Why do you want to know?
Just asking, sir.
You ask too many questions.
But I’m here to interview you!
No, I will speak and you will listen.
But …
Shut up, damn fool man!
But …
Quiet, or I’ll have you beheaded!
Gulp!
What?
I gulped.
Gulped what?
Err … air perhaps?
I thought I told you no questions!
But …
Keep quiet, [...]
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The creeping malaise
The reactions to the Swat girl’s flogging video were at best mixed. On the first two days of its transmission on TV channels, we heard a number of enraged voices emerging from across the print and electronic media, but predictably from the third day onwards the usual political and journalistic purveyors of sweaty reactionary hobnobbing [...]
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Radical clichés
People come to this
Beyond the age of reason
People fed on famine
People on their knees,
People eat each other
People stand in line
Waiting for another war,
Waiting for my valentine
(Sisters of Mercy, Valentine)
Shahzad Roy has been one of the most successful stories of reinvention coming out from the fledgling Pakistani pop scene. From an average purveyor of candy-pop, he [...]
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Rupturing heaven
ln 1979, an alarming incident occurred in the Islamic world, which most history books across the Muslim realm have almost completely expunged from its pages.
However, today the details of this violent incident are slowly making their way out thanks to various Muslim and Western historians who believe that within this incident lies the chance to [...]
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Talking Feet
Hello viewers, I am your host, Abdullah Deewana, with another episode of Talking Feet. Today we will not be talking politics. Instead we will be discussing cricket, music and theatre.
We have with us in the studios, the Pakistan cricket coach; and with him is a pop singer who just made a video on the political [...]
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Feedback
Laal’s response to NFP’s ‘Tomato manifesto’
Recently Nadeem Farooq Piracha wrote an article that was very critical of Laal. It seemed from the article that he had neither heard the CD before writing the article nor did he bother to verify any of his claims from any member of the band. The main objection that he [...]
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