It’s truly a black day for Pakistan, especially for the minorities that live within the boundaries of the nation. When the Pakistani law allows for the unlawful killing of innocent people under the pretence of the blasphemy law (clause 295[c]), there was one man that stood for the rights of those prosecuted. Salmaan Taseer was [...]
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If one were asked to define the Pakistani people in a breath, the word uttered can only be “gullible”. We, Pakistanis, live the lives of robots or zombies. Our thought processes are a fermented product of conspiracy theories that the media gives air to and the vile perceptions of the mullahs.
A Church centre in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack. Can the Christians feel safe in Pakistan any more?
I hear people talk about the participation of Indian personnel in the Taliban ranks. Some say Russia is involved. My only question here is: who cares if the Taliban are Indians or Russians or even Japanese? Whoever they are, they are not good people, they are bad. The Pakistani army is the protagonist here, we need to support them.
The earthquake that left Pakistan shaken in its step towards progress and lay waste to a generation of would-be leaders and youth. Now, though, how are we to respond back. I chose to write a book, what have you done lately with those painful memories.
And what gives people rights to fallaciously try the minorities living in Pakistan under the shariah law or the Hudood Ordinance.
It’s not just the Taliban that roots fears in the hearts of many-a-Christians in the nation’s troubled province but the new wannabes, who have been educated to do so by the DIY video-cassettes circulating around towns.
Fuel prices have risen to record-levels now. With petrol and diesel prices soaring the sky, what I fear is a severe civilian angst and an uprising.
