Atving the dossier

Its two days after Ashura which I spent at the beach mind you. Normally i wouldn’t go out on this day at all cause its just depressing with everything closed and what not.  To my surprise though many things were open on 9th and 10th muharram this year. Much to the pleasure of one of…

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Woman sets fire to penis

As if  lorena bobbit and her midnight snippings were not enough to set mens pulses racing a new chapter has been added to the infidelity journals of pain and punishment. An Australian woman Rajini Narayan upset because of her husbands infidelity doused his ummm…treacherous part in the middle of the night and set it on…

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6.1.2009

Its cold, almost too cold today in Karachi, its the 8th of muharram and already they have started sealing off the roads for the processions that will take place on the 9th and the 10th in which thousands of members of the Shi’ite community will wear black clothes and mourn. I could not help but…

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Jigsaw

The last day of the year; not even the whole day, just a few of the last twelve hours. It is, after all, the season for doing jigsaws.   The frost is still on the ground as we walk through the woods to the river, our breath coming in cold puffs, steaming out in front…

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PIRATES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

By Yvonne Ridley NOT content with committing war crimes and human rights atrocities in full view of the world, Israel has now confirmed itself as a rogue state by launching into international piracy.  Dawn had not yet broken over the Mediterranean waters in which the SS Dignity was sailing when an Israeli naval gunboat appeared…

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