Kalash falls to Kalash-nikov

Cross posted from Sadaf Arshad’s blog An honest answer to one simple question about your identity as a Pakistani or a Muslim explains the roots of extremism and an increasing intolerance among this society. I was asked this question many years ago, and my answer was not logical rather an abrupt and sudden gush of [...]

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Tragic Assassination of Salman Taseer And The Blasphemy Law

The future of my country, my beloved Pakistan, appears bleak due to the new brand of Islam that is an unstoppable force.  Suicide bombing is everyday news.  The disease of religious intolerance is increasing and has infected our society immensely. The Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, has been murdered.  Pakistanis receive death threats when utilizing a  universal human right [...]

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Chitral-Where Time Stops And The Fairies Tread

Chitral, the mythical landscape, one of the most natural famous wonders of Pakistan and one of the world’s most beautiful valley, lying in the midst of Hindukush Range. The land of fairytales is  blessed naturally with luxuriantly green orchards, streams full of dancing waters, roaring rivers and meadows stretching in the quietude like that of [...]

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Iqbal’s Eagle (shaheen) Yearns For Change

Allama Mohammad Iqbal (Poet of the East) ignites me to write.  He is among many whom  inspire me.   For me, he was a poet, philosopher, a revolutionary and a devout Muslim with Sufistic bent of mind.  He stirred up a revolution in the apathetic masses through his powerful poetry.  The most significant and dynamic symbol [...]

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I Salute The Soil Of Pakistan

These are my thoughts that come from what is happening around me. Whenever I stop to  spine about them, it causes me to write. It’s the brave soil that witnesses the horrible incident of Sialkot.  It’s the soil that is facing the biggest catastrophe.  It’s the soil that is facing war against terrorism from a [...]

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Ignorance can be the reason of Clash

“Knowledge has no borders, wisdom has no race or nationality. To block out ideas is to block out the kingdom of God”. –Aristotle Ignorance!!!  A seed which is bitter than any other form of clash, a clash which lit the fire of extreme action and thoughts.  Whether ignorance of minorities rights or educational rights and [...]

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Pakistan is drowning–Zardari is swimming:-

Our beloved land, Pakistan; has been faced with insurmountable trials such as: floods, extremists, suicide attacks, war on terror, Flight 202 crash, target killings and sectarian violence. Why is this so? Are we moving in the right direction? Have we identified the cancer? It is shameful that when the people in Pakistan, under the threat [...]

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