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Remnants of My Dearly Beloved

by Emaan: I'm left dumbfounded by the irritatingly vacuous media coverage and analysis of the Air Blue flight 202 crash. And I've been watching the nation get divided over the Sialkot event where one side seems to have lost all hope and is cursing every system and soul in the country, and the other just helpless, yet... Read more at Bbrd »

Our Aversion to Introspection

by Sehar Tariq: Patriotism is a powerful sentiment. But not when its logical outcome is a myopia that allows us the intellectual and moral space to ignore depravity in our midst. In the aftermath of the Sialkot lynching, powerful and evocative pieces were written by Fasi Zaka and George Fulton questioning the current state... Read more at Sehar Says »

Time to Rent Out the Country

by Dr Muhammad Iqbal: Bad news after bad news. From both home and abroad. The “F State” phrase keeps popping up among Pakistan-bashers of the world. The world hates us. The good guys hate us. The bad guys hate us. Now even God and nature hate us. People living in urban middle-class/posh localities are hardly affected. ... Read more at Pakistan Opinion Blog »

Cheatistan; Cicketing Cheat Busted

by Imran Baloch: In a sensational story broke by british tabloid shocked the cricketing fans across the world. Pakistani cricketers caused further dent to falling image of pakistan. We are sad, as pakistani how should i react if someone calls my beloved pakistan "cheatistan". Historically, cricket was known as gentlemen sp... Read more at Skeptic Life »

Requiem for Pakistan Cricket

by Ayesha: As if ministers’ fake degree scandal, perennial bombings, country’s worst ever aviation disaster and flooding, Sialkot lynching wasn’t enough to torment us emotionally and psychologically the serpent of match fixing in cricket raised its head again. In Pakistan, cricket is predominately the... Read more at Crossroads »

National Integration

by Floydian: National Integration in the case of Pakistan cannot mean creating ethnic or national homogeneity throughout the country. It can only mean establishing a common citizenry, common political and social structures, a common state, and an additional sense of identity of belonging together. It means building comm... Read more at Weed Media »

The Horror That Pakistan is Becoming

by Emaan: I tried, but I just could not resist from speaking my mind about this. It's about the murder of the two brothers in Sialkot. So many things are going on in my head and I can't seem to make coherent my chain of thought. I've watched the video a couple of times and it is absolutely heartbreaking to watch the... Read more at Bbrd »

Mob Psychology and the Sialkot Lynching

by Sonya Rehman: What brought on the animalistic instinct of the executors and the crowds of wide-eyed onlookers, who crowded around the two bleeding, flailing bodies, as the young men were thrashed repeatedly, mercilessly As reported in a daily English paper today, one of the accused said that the DPO, Waqar Chohan, prese... Read more at Sonya Rehman »

Need For Police Reform

by Riaz Haq: Scores of people brutally beat to death two innocent young brothers, Hafiz Mughees, 15, and Hafiz Muneeb, 19, while senior police officials in Sialkot, Pakistan, stood by and watched silently. Their limp bodies were later hanged in a public square. Like in prior lynchings in other parts of the country, ther... Read more at Haq\'s Musings »

We are All Harami

by Roti Fan: On August 15th 2010, two brothers Moiz Butt and Monib Butt were publicly tortured and beaten to death by a mob in a village near Sialkot. Not the Taliban or any extremist organization, but by the public. And not just murdered, but brutally tortured for two hours for "allegations" of robbery (even if the all... Read more at Kiss My Roti »

Rational About the Ground Zero Mosque

by Kalsoom: Not when people in the anti-GZM (Ground Zero Mosque) camp are likening the people behind the community center to Nazis. Oh yeah. I’m talking about former House speaker Newt Gingrich. According to the Washington Post, Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Was... Read more at Changing Up Pakistan »

Madrassa Militancy and Reforms

by Floydian: The radicalization of a section of the madrassa system is a profoundly destabilizing phenomenon with its roots in the Afghan jihad. Millennia old system of education designed to educate the intellectual elite in Muslim societies, the madrassa system in Pakistan has changed drastically in substance and conte... Read more at Weed Media »

Privilege Not a Right

by Zufah Ansari: So where do we draw the line How do we set the better apart from the average when it comes to educational excellence Well a cliche'd method of doing so is judging a student by his academic achievements based on GPA's and grades. Of course this is not really a hidden practice but is applied worldwide, but... Read more at Guest Posts »

Out for the Flood Victims

by Sonya Rehman: Last week a group of young Pakistanis congregated in Gulberg and Defence to collect funds in a door-to-door aid collection drive for the victims of the recent floods in the country. Going by the name of Responsible Citizens " Zimmedar Shehri, the group of young Pakistanis has been active in doing their bit... Read more at Sonya Rehman »

How to Donate Effectively

by Roti Fan: With rampaging floods moving towards Southern Sindh threatening the ruins of Moenjodaro and Benazir Bhutto's mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh and leaving behind a fourth of the country under water, Pakistan is facing a massive humanitarian crisis. Anywhere from 6 million to over 20 million people have been di... Read more at Kiss My Roti »

Pakistan Flood Relief Activities

by Zaka Khan: It all started on Thursday the 29th of July when horrific scenes of flood devastation flashed across our television screens. Swat was the first casualty. Soon district Shangla and Dir faced the catastrophic waters. The situation worsened on Friday and through the weekend in the settled districts of Charssad... Read more at Guest Posts »

The Rising of the Moon

by Floydian: A freedom movement initiated by people gained momentum and the small were about to rise when the big lost their head. The big did not want to pent up forces of hatred against them to be unleashed. They took strict measures to restrict freedom of the small. This inhumane action proved the last nail in their... Read more at Weed Media »

The Relief4Pakistan Campaign

by Kalsoom: Sindh province is currently bracing for a second round of heavy floods, and authorities warn “it could be as big as the first wave, whichdisplaced millions and destroyed thousands of homes. ” According to Al Jazeera English, “Authorities said waters have unexpectedly begun to rise at the Ko... Read more at Changing Up Pakistan »

What Shoe-throwing Won't Achieve

by Farrukh: Tired due to the prolonged special transmission on flood relief, I was trying to unwind in my office when a senior colleague came dancing to my chamber. What is the good news I asked him thinking of some big accomplishment in relief efforts. Someone has thrown a shoe at Zardari! he exclaimed in joy. I was... Read more at Farrukh Khan Pitafi »

Fuc- You, Mr President

by Shoaib: Seriously, fuck you. Let us start with the basics. You are an asshole. A thief. An alleged murderer. And a scoundrel. And mind-blowingly incompetent to boot. The only reason you matter is because your equally incompetent, currently delusional, then dysfunctional, mother-in-law thought that you were s... Read more at Guest Posts »