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“Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century. “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.” More than that is bleeding in the Arab world at the moment. The uprisings we are witnessing in Egypt h …
Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over fifty-nine small languages. However, the languages of the domains of power—government, corporate sector, media, education, etc.— are English and Urdu. The state’s policies have favored these t …
Maulvi Abbas Ansari opened his mouth “We are the defenders of this great fort of Islam and would not allow anyone to spread obscenity. And tell me, would you do everything you did with those guys in front of your father? Excuse me Sir, would you do everything …
If anything, the Taseer murder is a product of the enlightened moderation philosophy of the liberal dictator, Gen Musharraf (1999-2008) Very often, the analyses and activism of liberals in Pakistan, remains historically stuck in Gen Zia’s (1979-1988) Islamisat …
In 1860, the British repealed blasphemy laws so that Christian missionaries could proselytize. Today, Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code punishes as hate speech insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of any citizen There are eig …
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 34 JANUARY 21, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Search Letters to the Editor About Contact us Do you think extremists can capture state power in Pakista …
“Jinnah never did his matriculation. I once checked with Quide Azam Academy, Karachi, about his matriculation but I failed to find any such document. The high officials of the Academy were laughing at me that if he was not matriculate then how he became Barris …
Instead of seeing Salman Taseer’s murder as an unprecedented act commanding utter shock and horror, it must be placed on a continuum of rising intolerance and vigilantism that has been given official protection The phenomenon of vigilante justice, as supporter …
Quaid was grade five student in 1892. In 1893, he joined Lincoln Inn to start his law study. Within one year’s period, his big jump from fifth grade to the post graduate level studies seems impossible achievement. What makes it further mysterious is that he be …
Nexus of Lashkars with power brokers operating mainly under the garb of PML-N and Khatam-e Nabuhat can be traced in most of these cases The death sentence that a district court handed down to Aasiya Bibi, a poor Christian woman in Punjab, is not the first of i …
Vocal as they are about being bombed from the sky, most Pakistanis – including many on the Left – suddenly lose their voice when it comes to the human (Muslim) drone A drone – of the kind discussed here – is a programmed killing machine. By definition it is se …
It is generally perceived that the rulers of Swat imposed Shari’a in Swat but it is not true. In the days when Swat was a state there was no rule of law. It was a ‘law of choice’. It is indeed this speedy and cheap administration of justice that most of Swatis …
