Month: January 2021
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The Conversation
Why not is the answer to every single why. Why not? It was cold, dark, somewhat secluded and odd too. And they chose to meet. Yes, Why not? She was seeking a voice. He was seeking some validation. Or vice versa. On the outside, she was an independent woman with a job, a home, kids…
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Biden’s Day 1
Day 1 of Biden: Inauguration. Office. Issuance of promised presidential orders. 17 executive orders. Muslim ban: abolished. Mexico wall: halted. Student debt collection: freezed. Paris climate accords: re-joined. Discrimination against LGBT employees: banned. and so on… This is how you prove that homework was done prior to oath. This is how you show dignity of…
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Hazara Bleeds… Again
Jam Kamal, the incumbent-incompetent Chief Minister of Balochistan, expressed his grievance on murder of 11 coal miners in Splinji. The clueless CM didn’t even know that the butchering happened in Mach area and not Splinji. But I guess, even he knows, who cares. It’s bleeding so consistently in the region that it’s hard to track…
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Police Brutality & State Terrorism
Police brutality and Rangers’ violence in Karachi: Ignored. State brutality and killing of students and young men in Balochistan: Ignored. FC brutality in the whole western belt: Ignored. State criminals of Sahiwal incident: Pardoned. 444 encounters in Sindh: Hushed. Now police brutality in Federal. Islamabad. A young man killed mercilessly. Because system allowed this. State…
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Happy Old Year Marla!
It was tough to find bank details and transactions of 1990s regarding Asghar Khan case. But it was easy to find details of money laundering, corruption, transport rent, breakfast bills and movie tickets from 1970s and 1980s. It was easier to get humiliated, defeated and dissected than to talk and accept the East. It was…