Blogs from Shamila Ghyas
More News
-
We are all Pakistanis and that itself is enough to glue us together
A man with a long beard is assumed to be an extremist and a girl wearing a sleeveless shirt is thought to be “immoral”
-
Why was Khabaristan Times blocked?
Banning satire is the hallmark of a totalitarian state, not something a democratic country would do.
-
Remembering the ones we lost too soon
Some were lost to old age, some to disease and some to murder.
-
Is uncovered hair a more deadly sin than murder itself, Saudi Arabia?
Ahmed Qassim al-Ghamdi discovered that a lot of what is being practiced in KSA is cultural and not religion itself.
-
Being a Lady 101: Don’t sit like that, don’t wear makeup, don’t play sports
A mother can lead a huge company, a loving wife can refuse to wear dainty clothes, a grandmother can sing karaoke.
-
What purpose did Trump’s naked statue serve?
It is not Trump’s body that needs to be exposed, it is how he thinks. That is what needs to be mocked.
-
If Trump can’t even comfort the parents of a war hero, how will he manage a nation?
To him I say, Trump, bigotry will only get you so far!
-
What’s so obscene about QMobile’s ad, Pakistan?
Why is everything good strung up on the moral compass and then declared obscene by people like Orya Maqbool Jaan?
-
Why should non-Muslims bear the brunt of your compulsion to fast in Ramazan?
Even our own grandparents at home don’t fast at this age. Do we go around beating them up too?
-
Shahbaz Taseer finally breaks his silence and we blame him for cooking up a story? Really, Pakistan?
There were comments like: “It’s too fishy to me. He was probably away on holiday somewhere” and “Where are...