Honor Killings in Babakot

Those beautiful faces, our daughters
Gone forever, heads sunk in grief
As words betray us, to describe
Heinous crimes and we call ourselves
The followers of prophet and Islam

There is no ‘honour’ in killing

Whether the women were buried alive or whether they were already dead when buried is not the point. They were murdered.

Beware of Thyself!

Why women suffer, cannot be explicated clearly, keeping in view the certain facts. Are they, standing themselves in the way of their own development?

Looking Towards a Brighter Future

Being born in a farmer’s family in a small conservative village of Punjab, I could only wish that her intelligence and spark for life would meet its rewards.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2007, 1205 women were reported to have been killed in the name of honor. Each year the number is doubling.

Cynicism Amongst Pakistani Youth

Today the most disturbing trend amongst the youth is the growing use of narcotics. This phenomenon cannot be viewed in isolation from the socio-political and economic realities.

Drifting in the World

“I have to design a website which will host pictures and videos of wet t-shirt competitions. And if I do it well, they’ll give me more projects.�

Imran Khan at LUMS

Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the country’s political future.

Cellular Cancer

Cell phones have erased distances and brought people closer. But each step in the cellular direction is bringing us closer to physical and mental problems.

Mobile Phone Ideas

Philip Koetler, the marketing guru wrote that products that succeed are the ones that meet human needs, definitely not true for mobile phones.

Youth Educating for Peace

How to live peacefully in the presence of our individual and group identities?

Dreams, Hopes, and the Road Ahead

We often look to the West for guidance. Let us therefore discover the true meaning of modernity as it historically unfolded within the fabric of Western societies. Bound by the chains of dogma and doctrine; unable to explore their own creativity; and incr

Espresso Junkies

Conversations overheard bringing to life the thoughts, feelings, aspirations and pseudo-intellectualism of young people living a fast-paced metro life in Karachi.

Australia’s Muslim youth -- A Battle for their Hearts and Minds

Young Muslims are misunderstood by their parents and many live two lives - one inside their community and another outside

Children of Dictatorship

I have always referred to my contemporaries as Zia’s children... We were socialised in a culture of sectarian and communal hate, drugs, guns, Pajeros, and with a false consciousness based only on abstinence. Not much has changed in this generation o

The Girly-boy

Mangoes, kulfies and rusmalai. It can never get sweeter than this. The nights, that shroud the city from above, are mesmerized by the jasmine’s spell, clear and open, inciting mystic fantasies. Not gloomy or quiet at all. These nights never are.

Solace

My eyes fail the fight to remain closed. I can hear the muezzin just finishing the druud-o-salaam before he begins waking those who are faithfully asleep.

The Third Pasture

The play land today, nothing more than an apolitical wasteland of aimless youth. A youth that refuse. Refuse to understand. Understand the political and economic forces driving them. Driving them towards professional and social aspirations and goals. Goal

What Cats Dream

Inspector Duffy-u-Din Bangash of the FIA (Feline Investigation Agency) versus Bhooki Aloo (It was her passion for crime, that made her a household name.)

I Recall

It’s not just that you can’t revisit the past outside your head. The people, the things, the naiveté is lost. You don’t have a telephone diary for all those unnamed names, no database to find it all again, and your heart’s a colder

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