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If Muhammad Ali Jinnah is reincarnated today…

Of course he would’ve been involved in the state affairs and elections. I can bet, if he forms his own wing of Muslim League, all the existing Muslim Leagues will dissolve into his because no matter how big they get, they know they won’t be able to participate in an election against M.A. Jinnah.

And it’s not because Jinnah is Quaid-e-Azam but because the current lot is so incompetent that they can’t win inside their own house in a fair election. Even the pre-separation adversaries of Quaid were no match for his skills. And our current leaders will be tossed out of the picture within seconds against the likes of Gandhi, Nehru and the others.

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If India Nukes Pakistan…

Special Short:

Sitting at home with a friend, Omer Bashir Chaudary, talking about totally random stuff and in reply to something I said, he uttered (translated in English):

“Even if India nukes us and I’m dying, I would say ‘Up yours, you’re still going to be a vegetarian’.”

It completely made my day!

Pakistani Media is demoralising Pakistan

Taking inspiration from Shyema Sajjad’s article on Dawn.com, I thought I should get my words out to the meager audience I receive here. Where Sajjad restrained himself from using names, I will not. Simply because it is not the media alone who preserves the right of ‘freedom of speech’ and degrading and defacing anyone and everyone publicly.

Freedom of speech: The proper definition is ‘the freedom to speak without censorship or limitation, or both’. Every person on the planet has a right to that. You believe in something or you just want to say something, you have the right to say it out loud. Now, just like you have the right to speak freely, everyone around you has a right to his privacy and choice.

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Fueling Christian-Muslim clashes: Reporting half the story

It will be quite harsh to pin-point one out of a million and put all the blame on it but there are some who should definitely not be ignored. Specially those who are presenting the story with the intention to provoke.

Most of the news sources who report half of the stories (the case with all the news channels in Pakistan at least, bar a couple) have the intent to degrade one (individual or group) involved. It may include hiding some facts, only mentioning what one did wrong and not pointing out what the other did wrong.

Works wonders when it’s done for you or for someone you favor but surely pisses you off as hell if it’s done against you or against someone you favor. But that is not fair. If it’s not okay to use a tactic against you, it’s not okay to use a tactic for you.

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What will become of us?

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not so Islamic and neither so republic. Is it even Pakistan? A man made this country because all the coins in his pocket were useless? Did a man make this country or was it a reward from our British rulers to the landlords who served them for years? Did a man just showed us how opportunist he was by taking all the credit for something hundreds of thousands of people shed their blood for? Do you recall any of the names that weren’t your relatives and were killed while migrating to the free land?

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