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Posts Tagged ‘Mukhtaran Mai’

Give thy thoughts no tongue…..

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Give thy thoughts no tongue, or any unproportion’d thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Shakespeare. Words communicate a message; convey a meaning, feelings and thoughts. It has been said that if the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Words have the power [...]



Mukhtaran Mai Wedding Pictures

By Sharafat • Mar 21st, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Dear Visitors, we are very soon going to present the wedding photos of Mukhtaran Mai with Nasir Abbas. It is to be remembered that both have been married before. Nasir Abbas is a police constable and already has got one wife who attended the wedding ceremonies as the friend of Mukhtaran Mai and also helped [...]



An insensitive gesture

By Saleem Khan • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Why do our presidents always end up embarrassing us internationally by making sexist remarks? First it was Gen Musharraf who, in the wake of the Mukhtaran Mai gang-rape case, indicated that women got themselves raped as that was an easy route to getting a foreign visa.
Now, it is President Asif Zardari who, apparently smitten by [...]