Category: Pakistan
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All In One… Boot
Ok! We have seen so much and so many lickers since the beginning, but Shahbaz Sharif is defining a new low. Very low low. Remember Faisal Vawda? He brought a boot in a TV show and placed it on the table. Like it’s the constitution. Which it is. Is it? It is. And that was…
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The Pain in Expats’ Arse
The pain of expats is pretty hypocritical. While looking for stable economies abroad, their hearts melt for a rocky economy at home. While praying and voting for liberal democrats abroad, they hope for conservative rightists at home. While offering prayers in mosques in west, they know nothing about state’s attitude towards minorities at home. While…
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Random Numbness (Feb 2022)
This world is a comedy of tragedies. And errors. Not precisely. One of the blunders in our history was Liaquat Ali Khan’s visit to America in 1950. In a polarized world, he chose a pole instead of staying in the neutral zone. And today, we are witnessing another blunder. Our PM is in Russia while…
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After Murree
PM: What’s this new mess? Fawad: I lost the count at 100,000. We were doing really great. PM: 22 is the count idiot. And you? Sheikh: I am an interior minister. That snow is not my concern. PM: Trains were not your concern either. You broke the news, right? Sheikh: Habitually. PM: Okay, so what’s…
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Random Numbness (Dec 2021)
You are stupid. Have you ever realized this? Things around you – society, norms, values and interpretation of the religion – are here to make and keep you stupid. And you hardly ever disappoint. This government came in power with the promise that the foreigners and expats will come back for jobs. The other day,…
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After Noor
She wanted to make her point with a placard in Aurat March. Then she was beheaded. Murdered. Buried. Making her point with a tombstone. Yet, the ‘Qamars’ and ‘Oryas’ are as ugly as they have ever been. The other one stayed for 10 years with four children in a toxic marriage. Tortured for a decade…
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Won’t Let That Pass
Still. Victim blaming. Not someone ordinary, but the Prime Minister of Pakistan. You know how much we have progressed in the last two decades? Let me elaborate. 4 regimes back, the President (direct military dictator) said that women get raped in Pakistan to settle abroad. He’s settled abroad though. No pun. 4 regimes later, the…
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Abuse in Sacred Halls
Didn’t write on molvi riding a molvi. Behave, he’s a Mufti. He can oust you with a fatwa. It’s a sensitive topic. It isn’t a Christian couple you can kill at will for blasphemy. It’s Maulana and his usual business of arse. They tell you about graves and jinns and hell and volcanoes and snakes…
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Palestine 2021 – A Perspective from Pakistan
PREAMBLE An agricultural country which has recently accepted Zakat and Fitrana of rice from the Arabian Desert; is asking the Ummah to stand up and fight for the Palestinians. Well, standing up is right. One should always condemn the wrongdoings – at least verbally – if nothing else can be done. Every one of us…
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Crocodile Tears
Crocodile tears. That’s what you all are shedding for Palestinians. You hypocrites. Your Prime Minister goes – every now and then – to embrace the butchers of Yemen in Saudia. With military support. For blood to spill. Around 40 people – mostly young girls – died in a bomb blast in Kabul. You have our…