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[February 9, 2010 | No Comment | Talib Qizilbash]
Balancing Jihad and PR

Salman Ahmad has a knack for self-promotion. Though he likes to toot his own horn and even embellish the melody a bit, it seems like he is making new fans outside the South Asian community: many are surprised by his story of a moderate majority in the Muslim world who like things such as music and, heck, even peace.

 
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Caught in the Crossfire

Uddipan Mukherjee fleshes out the parallels between the two major internal insurgencies that both India and Pakistan have been facing for decades.

Blog Row, News & Politics, The Water Cooler »

[4 Feb 2010 | One Comment | Hasan Mujtaba]
Observing The Trial

Though it was not exactly like Kafka’s The Trial, there was still something nightmarish about this recent, and now infamous, trial.

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[30 Jan 2010 | No Comment | Talat Hussain]
Fight to the Finish

Deep inside Pakistan’s turbulent political waters, yet another major fight is building up, threatening to expend national energies in an epic showdown between the country’s largest political party and a strong-minded, resurgent judiciary.

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[30 Jan 2010 | No Comment | Nadir Hassan]
A Confederacy of Crooks?

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s NRO decision, it should be remembered that corruption transcends party affiliation.

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[30 Jan 2010 | One Comment | Ayesha Siddiqa]
Selective Justice?

Replacing the PPP with other equally corrupt and exploitative forces would only deepen the country’s political divide, says defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa.

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[28 Jan 2010 | No Comment | Fatima Najm]
The Gender Apartheid

Muslim women across the globe are fighting against the practice of segregating mosques and shunting women in basements and balconies, instead of main prayer halls, during prayer time.

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[28 Jan 2010 | No Comment | Fatima Najm]
The Female Imam

Academic and activist Amina Wadud’s attempts to lead mixed prayer congregations have met with abuses like ‘whore’ and ‘CIA agent.’