Your honor she is not a virgin!!!

Muslims all over the world are part of the grand victem mentality.  Although a lot of sinister stuff does happen to and around us we tend to raise a hue and cry at anything seen as remotely challenging what we consider normal. This is why we do not fit in anywhere as immigrants, regardless of…

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Best cricket catch ever taken!

I think this is it…. Jonty has been topped finally… Kemp just pulled off the impossible in an ICL match between the Lahore Badshahs and Hyderabad. Look at Inzi’s face, Alu is aghast!!! To top it all of the batsman was so shocked he would not leave the pitch!!!

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Change hits the first snag

I have in the past spoken about the serious need for any new president elect in the U.S to take a good long look at foreign policy review, specially where their Israeli friends are concerned. It seems though that Obama the symbol of new found hope has stumbled on his first appointment by giving the…

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Phoenix in green

Well just as i had swept ODI cricket and specially Pak cricket under the rug of ancient “feel good” memories, the first match of the fortune cup in Abu Dhabi between Pak & WI turns out to be a smasher and a half.  Lets face it Pakistan cricket has not seen a lot of errr…

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Mustufa Kamal NOT declared 2nd best mayor in the world

FROM DAWN “An award winning American magazine Foreign Policy, has chosen Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal as second among the three best mayors in the world for the year 2008. The magazine has included the names of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing as the other mayors of the moment, said…

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Obama—the view from Pakistan

There are only a few topics the media here in Pakistan is more obsessed with than India and its nefarious “unseen hand”. Foremost among these is ‘Amreeka’ our ally of good and useful times since Independence, and frequent ruler through various quasi governments here. Kindly referred to here by pundits and journalists alike as “Mai…

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Controversial verses part II

Ayat Al Sayf (the verse of the sword) Chapter 9 verse 5 Frequently quoted by fundamentals and terrorists the world over to justify their barbaric and inhuman acts this verse is perhaps one of the most controversial of the verses of the Holy Quran. It has been thrown in the face of peace loving Muslims…

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