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PAKTEAHOUSE · 6h ago

Dr Shakil Afridi, How dare you?

by Abdul Majeed Mr. Shakil Afridi, the infamous doctor involved in the ‘fake’ vaccination drive that became the chief source of intelligence about OBL and his family, was sentenced recently under the FCR regulations to 33 years in prison. Dr Shakil was sentenced according to Section 121 (waging war
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 2d ago

The Punjabi Pakistan

Raza Habib Raja The selective way of presenting history in Pakistan conveniently ignores the fact that at its creation, there were two large sometimes contrasting and sometimes overlapping movements. The first was primarily centred around Muslim identity and tried to actually bargain a better positi
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 2d ago

Campus corner

For the love of Samosas By Zehra Dada Zehra is a student at the LUMS university in lahore and an economics and political science major. “What? Even the samosa costs Rs. 5 more now? Honestly, they should just be sued.” This and other such sentences are the only thing floating around in the conversati
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 5d ago

Staying the constitutional course

By Saad Hafiz: Pakistan’s troubled history has been dominated by power-hungry generals and mostly corrupt and incompetent politicians supported by a cast of cunning bureaucrats, pliant judges, invisible spooks, political fixers and middlemen, and biddable media persons. These well known ‘pantheon of
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 6d ago

Twitter, Twitter where have you gone.!!

Twitter, the famous micro-blogging website, has been blocked in Pakistan since  today morning i.e. that of 20th May 2012. A similar action was taken against the social networking web site Facebook two years ago, when it was banned by the Lahore High Court. According to News Agency AFP, Pakistan bloc
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 1W ago

Pity the Nation….

By: Riaz Ali Toori Our history is replete with judicial transgressions and military interventions, the implications of which can be very unnerving. A quick glimpse at Pakistan’s history would reveal that when the dictator, General Ayub Khan deposed Iskandar Mirza, the change was welcomed but what
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 1W ago

Remembering Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto, perhaps is the greatest story teller in the history of urdu language. We have collected some thoughts about him by people who knew him best Kamal Ahmed Rizvi The Progressive Writers Movement never completely owned and recognised Manto in his life. Hasan Askari also mentioned tha
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 1W ago

Ugly Mullahs of Pakistan

(We received the following contribution from an angry reader of PTH and we are publishing it without malice or much editing. The views expressed by the writer are completely his own and do not reflect the policy of PTH. By: Farooq Ahmad Khan Mullahs of Pakistan are the worst of creatures. They are
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 1W ago

SOS! Save Our Shalwars!

By Ghazala Akbar: For the past few years, a silent revolution has been in progress in Pakistan of which our security agencies, political parties, the religious right, Ghairat Brigades, Difa- e- Pakistan Council are blissfully unaware. It is not an Indian – Zionist – Western inspired conspiracy. US C
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PAKTEAHOUSE · 1W ago

National Sovereignty, What Sovereignty?

By Raza Habib Raja One of the most hyped up slogans on the media and the rightwing nationalist circles is of “National Sovereignty”. This slogan is so powerful that Pakistani leadership particularly that of PPP is always on the defensive. According to this “National Sovereignty” school of thought, P
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