A woman who works for me, Irshad, comes 4 times a week, for about an hour each day. She works in at least one other house that I know of, and on average, I would say she earns around Rs. 6000 a month. Her husband drives a taxi, not his own, and earns a similar [...]
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Faisal Qureshi is an anchor on a TV show on Samaa - his show, Ankahi, discusses topics of social reform and civic revolution. ‘Loose Ends Pakistan’ was a show he anchored on another channel, similar to Ankahi, but with larger groups of people at a time.
This evening, he had Samina Peerzada (respected filmmaker in Pakistan) [...]
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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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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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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For some strange reason, Bloggers Pakistan refuses to add this blog to their syndication list. But just so the rest of you won’t miss out, and just so you have an opportunity to refute/applaud his sentiments, here are links to a five-part series (3 of which have been posted already) on the Ugly Truth that [...]
I drive a lot. As a middle-class, struggling couple, my husband and I cannot afford a driver, or a servant (normal for Pakistan – labor is cheap, and we can usually hire a full-time maid or driver for as little as $50 a month) to run errands, so we both drive a lot. We’ve [...]
Doesn’t this seem an adequate description of mankind?
“THE DEVIL: And is Man any the less destroying himself for all this boasted brain of his? Have you walked up and down upon the earth lately? I have; and I have examined Man’s wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents [...]
And now for something positive out of Pakistan… There are people in this country who are working to improve the status quo, in all sectors, from all walks of life. The organizers of the KaraFilm Festival (Karachi International Film Festival) fall in this category. Having designed for them for the past two years, I have [...]