This is called listening to an opposing point of view: A Voice to Lawyers and Judges
In a free society, this writer has as much right to speak as those blindly opposing ‘government’ action - it makes no difference to our ‘educated’ class who is in government. The theme of their lives is opposition.
Over the many conspiracy theories and hotly-debated views on various blogs and forums regarding Lal Masjid (LM), few have reacted to the notion that one Muslim has the power to doubt another Muslim’s faith. The common theme among many Pro-Lal Masjid bloggers seems to be that a) the Ghazi Brother’s intentions were pure, so their [...]
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Over the past 5 days, we’ve seen the face of clerical ‘Islam’ in Pakistan: a hypocritical movement by power-hungry individuals who are willing to send our sons and daughters to their death, rather than face it themselves. If Abdul Rasheed Ghazi is not afraid of death, why is he so afraid of arrest? If we [...]
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Amidst the relentless coverage of the Lal Masjid Operation, our news channels and papers have tried very hard to keep abreast of the situation and to present the blow-by-blow news, as it happens, when it happens. Along with the situation on the ground, a few channels have presented the history of the Lal Masjid showdown, [...]
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Neck and neck with the lop-sided blogging community is the inexperienced, sensation-driven tabloid style media that has swept the nation. We seem to think that a free press means the right to air anyone’s opinion, regardless of the consequences.
On one hand, you have conservative newspapers that are so late with the news, they may as [...]
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There is one thing about Pakistani bloggers (and our media, for that matter) that I find very distasteful: Government-bashing. It doesn’t matter who is in power, as long as they hold the seat, it seems Pakistanis must hate them.
Consider this. This government has done more for this country than all our previous leaders put together. [...]
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Yesterday, my husband and I got into an argument with an anthropologist, who explained to us that the discipline and civility we see in the West is the result of centuries of evolution, development and modernism, a process that Pakistanis never went through. The argument was that our attempt to bring such civility to this [...]
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It’s 4.19 am on the 9th of April, 2007. My phone just rang, and scrambling out of bed, I ran to see what the emergency was. The voice at the other end says, “hello…. aap mujhse baat karain gi?” (Will you talk to me?). If my husband hadn’t taken the phone from me to threaten [...]
At a recent rally in Rawalpindi, President Musharraf spoke of increased standards of living among urban centers, where banking policies have opened up new vistas for public spending. Personal loans, car loans, home loans, credit cards, debit cards, atm cards, saving accounts… banks are churning out more products on a daily basis, encouraging customers to [...]
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Why are muslims aggressive? What feeds the rage that moves a muslim to raise his hand against another human being? And what gives muslims the impression that they have the authority to impose their morality on another? I’m not just asking because of the Lal Masjid travesty going on at this very moment; I have [...]
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