Lal Masjid: our day of shame

Just read an Editorial on todays DAWN newspaper by By M.P. Bhandara.
Really excellent article woth reading.
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Polarization in Pakistani society

Since 9/11 slowly but surely the rift and polarization in Pakistani society was occurring>the Fundamentalist the moderates and the liberals, 3 classes were fast growing apart from ach other. Now the events of past 6 months have taken this polarization into overdrive. The extremists angered by the lal Masjid episode, the moderates and extremists angered [...]

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Jinnah’s View of Pakistan & Muslims

Just saw these 2 videos of Jinnah Addressing then nation on YouTube.

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Is there still Hope?

 It’s a sad time in Pakistani History. Not in past 60 years since creation of Pakistan we have seen devastation, chaos and anarchy like this. Muslim killing Muslims, targeting there own brethren like country is tearing itself apart from inside. Everybody knew that lal Masjid incident would have fall out and far reaching effects even [...]

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Moderation/ Injustice /Extremism: A look back at Lal Masjid

Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Man who started as being a moderate force from Lal Masjid, Ended his life as a hardliner fundamentalist, and the transition from a moderate to an extremist came in a very short time. As now lal Masjid Crises/unfortunate event is over its time to ponder over the reasons why this all happened.
Rashid [...]

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When will it End?

I was just reading a news website and came to know that a Army Captain along with 7 other security officials have died in the Full fledge military operation to rid Lal Mosque to terrorists. It’s been a week now since this all started and there has been nothing but killings, and one fails to [...]

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Crises upon Crises

Last time I posted in May on Pakistani situation it was about the chief Justice issue and Massacre in Karachi, and one thought the worst is over, but again who am I kidding this is Pakistan. There is more twist and turns here than a Hollywood feature film. 
In past 4 weeks Pakistan has been hit [...]

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Live Earth:Concert for Climate Crises

In a 24 Hour Live concert with 150 artists performing aired live from multiple countries spanned over 9 continents on 7.7.07. LIVE EARTH was organized to raise the awareness of global warming among the general populace and young generation in particular and once again Al GORE was in forefront of arranging the event.
At the end [...]

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