I am extremely pissed-off after reading an article published in The Guardian by Declan Walsh today!
You would be too… at the insensitivity… the height of illiteracy… at such preposterous traditions that, for centuries, have marred the lives of so many… women and young girls in particular!
When will we evolve and shed off these inhuman, man-made […]

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[Note: The following article has been re-published on NaiTazi.com with permission from Selina Haider of the WeCite Blog]
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Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death.
This is the police statement released in […]

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I am going to try to be as blunt and straight-forward as possible without deviating from the issue at hand (NOTE: I said I’ll try!).
This ‘one sided’ peace agreement with the Taliban holed up in Pakistan’s North is NOT GOING TO WORK!
Unless Islamabad has a few tricks up their sleeves and are earnestly at […]

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Why am I not surprised to hear this? *chuckles*
So our democratic, non-barbaric, pious, and ‘civil’ government has had the door slammed on their face by the T-Boys. Ha. Were you really expecting them to do otherwise? How silly of you.
There were basically four demands put forward by the T-boys to our kind government:
- Withdrawl of […]

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image courtesy of www.bhavane.com
In the world of cricket, getting ’smacked’, ‘hammered’, or ’slapped’ around for boundries is often heard of. What is NOT heard of that often is LITERALLY crossing over the ethical boundries and norms of professional behaviour to an extent that you ACTUALLY slap another player!
Indian’s hot-headed Harbhajan Singh, commonly known as ‘Turbanator’ has recently done just that. […]

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Up until yesterday, I had the feeling that Afridi was a lone ranger out in India having shouted out loud against the ‘unnecessary’ inclusion cheerleaders in the ongoing Indian Premier League and deeming it ‘distracting’. But not any more.
It seems like the Maharashtra government has indirectly joined the ‘Afridi-cause’ by condemning the ‘vulgar’ acts on […]

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Shahid Afridi has done it again! He has made a name for himself in the ongoing Indian Premier League but in the wrong books! The dynamic ‘boom boom Afridi’ from Pakistan who is playing for the Deccan Chargers has called for the removal of cheerleaders from the IPL tournament saying that they cause too much of […]

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