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Why do the grown-ups cry during Muharram?
Do you cry on cue? Can you squeeze out the tears? What if you simply don’t feel like it?
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The poster girls of Pakistan
The liberals are using Malala as their poster child and the conservatives, drone strike victims. Why?
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World Hijab Day: Strangely authentic, deeply disturbing?
World Hijab Day was declared by Jamaat-i-Islami to 'counter the infidels’ conspiracies against the Islamic...
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Remembering Karsaz
The government can hardly expect ads to make people care more about bomb blasts.
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On the bright side of a downpour
Getting home at 10.30 pm was not part of my plan for the day but even traffic jams have their advantages.
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Failure of justice = power to the misogynistic jirga
As long as the void in the justice system exists, jirgas will continue giving barbarous verdicts against women.
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Gojra slaughter: Keeping the faith
If nothing else, punishing culprits of the Gojra massacre may prevent the flight of many more minority members.
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The burqa ban by equating liberalism with the way one dresses rather than with a tolerant, accepting, inquisitive frame of mind, does liberalism a great disservice.
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When you’re a woman
Development economics teaches us that women subsidise the economic activities of men.