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                                                            Justice and remembranceIn Coke Studio too, violence that has taken over all our lives is made to be justified for better, imaginary tomorrow 
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                                                            Selective religiosityAfter a terrorist attack, debate so quickly changes from the act of violence itself to the ‘victimisation of Muslims’ 
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                                                            PTI rallies — hazardous for womenIn ensuring its workers the basic right to human dignity, the PTI has clearly, and frequently, failed 
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                                                            Bloody SundayThe list of ‘they’ keeps growing — TTP, Afghan Taliban, ISIS and the like 
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                                                            No country for Kasur’s childrenWhere will these children go whose bodies have been touched in ways that will forever haunt them — who may never learn to trust again? 
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                                                            What is good enough reason for massacre?Reasoning with killings or ‘unreasoning’ with them, however, is an exercise we should have given up on long ago 
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                                                            For Tehseen sb and the 26,300 othersAccording to the UNHCR, Pakistan recorded the highest number of asylum applications last year, nearly 26,300 
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                                                            A life’s constant fearWith every attack, I fearfully imagine that soon I may be mourning a lost love, searching for them in alien places. 
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                                                            Our right to mournThere is not even enough time to think about long-term solutions before narratives are changed and focus is shifted 
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                                                            Book review: Mirages of the Mind - making light of dark timesMushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s novel takes a humorous approach to nostalgia and human tragedy without trivialising them. 
 
    











