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'Naya Pakistan' rally: Where were the women?
A nation can't prosper if its women are not politically active especially when half of it's population is women.
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Between provocative and proactive
Indian-occupied Kashmir recommends citizens to prepare for war by building underground shelters stocked with food.
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From brainwashing to target killing
While extremists might deem the polio health workers as ‘traitors’, I think they are martyrs dying for a noble cause.
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For the sake of women
Women have been slaughtered, burned, maimed and raped. Acid, too has been injected into their uteruses.
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Recognising journalists: Only an international trait?
The pursuit of truth has never been free of risk but the peril level that journalists in Fata now face is frightening.
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What exactly are we teaching our children?
Do we want our children to grow up into mentally healthy humans, or do we want to raise aggressive individuals.
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Be kind to your teachers
The day Waheeda Shah slapped two teachers, I could not stop thinking about their students who must have watched this.
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Where is Shahnila Naz?
Shahnila Naz was escaping a forced marriage to the Holy Quran. Where are her and her husband? Nobody knows.
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I pledge not to travel in the pink bus
I will continue travelling in the old buses and teaching the disorderly some lessons they are likely to remember.
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Another women's bill passed - so what?
Does passing a bill and making it into a law and then leaving it to rot on shelves help? So far, it hasn't.