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Thursday, October 27, 2011

A Case of Exploding Nerves

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We have been frequent critics of Imran Khan the politician in the past and with very good reason. I still hold that his prescriptions for ...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Nusrat Bhutto, 1929-2011

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Much has already been written and will be written about Begum Nusrat Bhutto , who passed away yesterday. I don't wish to regurgitate th...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Why Your Parents Warned You Against Taking Too Many Drugs

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I had the chance, or misfortune, to stumble upon yesterday's Khari Baat Lucman Ke Saath on its repeat today and I am still reeling at ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Problem With Hired Protesters

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Credit for digging up this Video of the Day, and even inspiring the title should go to @shahidsaeed on Twitter... This is from the anti- ...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

Geo Does Women Empowerment, Kinda

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You know how, sometimes, you want to write a post on something big and important but then along comes something trivial but so funny that ...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Comedy As Serious Business

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“Ever wondered what you could do in light of ongoing terrorism, the Haqqani network, the Taliban, the al Qaeda? Tried shooting off a punch...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

This Lucman Is No Hakeem

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I had not actually planned to write this post but am doing so on the insistence of some of our friends on Twitter who think, quite rightly,...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Fear and Loathing in AfPak

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In this lead story from the online edition of the New York Time s on the 26th of September, reporter Carlotta Gall humanizes one of the 1...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Trust Us, Even If We Do Not Trust Ourselves

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So, most of our readers have probably already heard about the advertisement that the Government of Pakistan took out in the Wall Street J...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

What He Said (And Leaked Beforehand)

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For the last five or six days I had been contemplating how best to present the information contained on a website that someone had stumbled ...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Presenting... the Real Spirit of Aamir Liaquat

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Without further ado... [ Update 1: The above video may not play because it has been pulled from Youtube by Geo . In that case you can wa...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Ties That Bind

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Consider the following lines from an AP  distributed article published in Dawn today: "With... government all but paralysed by scan...
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With Friends Like These...

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On Geo 's Aapas Ki Baat show today, Najam Sethi referred to an interview that Imran Khan gave a few days ago and expressed incredulit...
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Return (and Resurgence) of Napier

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The recent spate of violence, mayhem and bloodletting in Karachi has drawn a number of responses, ranging from the outraged to the resigne...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Post-Modern Dialectics of Belief

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I have been musing a little bit about belief, especially after a couple of outraged comments on the previous post about the absurdity of the...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

The Mooning of Pakistan

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Stung by intense criticism of the cretinism of Pakistan's maulvis and their perennial inability to reconcile even the basic concepts of...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

ARY In Disarray?

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The following information has been posted by one Mekaal Hassan on the journalists' mailing group PressPakistan . We cannot verify it bu...
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