Pakistan Blog
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By Faisal Shakeel
You can easily spot the passenger vans engaged in headlong races on the busy roads of Lahore. The passengers, who aren’t strapped into their seats, swing at every twist and turn of these raucous roller-coaster rides, and must fight continuously to retain their balance and their seats.
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Society
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By Zeresh John
This article has been cross-posted from Dawn
The cross is the most widely recognised religious symbol of Christianity. Down the years, the emblem has faded from the public eye, rarely seen in the humdrum of everyday life in Pakistan. Born and raised a devout Protestant Christian and a part of the country’s largest religious minority, the increasing invisibility of the cross, despite its ascent about two decades ago, seems unsettling to me.
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Arts
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By Lisa Reinisch
Music is taboo for Muslims - at least if you ask certain religious scholars. It’s a minority view, but it still throws up plenty of questions for Muslim musicians and fans. The good news is that Deen Tight by American director Mustafa Davis does not even pretend to have any answers. Instead, the film is a catalogue of personal solutions to the identity crises that many Muslim artists go through or, in some cases, manage to avoid.
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Society
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By Symon Hill
“All have the right to express themselves through their dress.”
It may sound like she's stating the obvious, but Na'ima B Robert’s choice of clothing triggers negative reactions – including from some who see themselves as supporters of equality and freedom. A British Muslim author, she wears a niqab (a Muslim face veil) and leaves only her hands and eyes visible.
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India Blog
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By Taapsi Ramchandani
I spent the best part of last month working as an assistant director on a documentary on the history and culture of the pashmina. This catapulted me into the balls-shrivellingly cold climate of Kashmir (no, I’m not secretly a man, but I know) amid weavers, embroiders and traders of the cloth. While the story of the pashmina will be told in the documentary, here’s a little window into a world ensconced in a valley.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
On first listen, Laura Veirs’ Wide-Eyed, Legless sounds like a pleasant rip-off of Suzanne Vega’s Left of Center. But while it shares that song’s core melody, it is the striking purity of Veirs’ voice and the song’s glossy production – the musical equivalent of soothing, medicinal Manuka honey – that recalls Vega most vividly. Because while Left of Center is bright and clean in a confrontational way, Wide-Eyed, Legless is muted and spectral, but equally beguiling.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
If you ever needed proof that life is unfair, just look at Delorean. They should be the biggest dance sensation in Europe following the release of this summer’s Ayrton Senna EP. But they’re not. Which is frustrating, considering Moonson is actually, literally perfect.
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Politics and Policy
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By Chaminda Jayanetti
The good people of Wootton Bassett can breathe a sigh of relief this morning as they wake to the news that Anjem Choudary, the loudmouth leader of lunatic mob Islam4UK, has given up on his fantasy of a supposedly 'anti-war' hate-fest through the streets of their quiet town.
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Business and Economy
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With green talks on a road to nowhere, Eamonn Dwyer takes aim at our Faustian pact with fossil fuels.
They’re like those people who keep telling us not to add salt to our food, or guilt us for wearing a top from a sweatshop. Incessant, proscribing and one-note, they are the spoilers; the people who like to belch on our bluefin tuna before telling us why we shouldn’t be eating it in the first place. If climate change activists don’t get on your goat, that’s because you’re one of them.
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Pakistan Blog
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By Asif Akhtar
The United States’ Transport Service Authority (TSA) has drafted a list of 14 “countries of interest” in the aftermath of the failed “underwear bomber” plot to blow up a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. It seems airport security personnel around the world are on the lookout for weapons of mass destruction in people’s underwear (which may have its own implications of course).
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Business and Economy
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By Alex Holland
Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back at work after the winter break. Adding to their misery is London's mayor, Boris Johnson, who has made their journey much more expensive with huge fare rises.
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Politics
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By Chaminda Jayanetti
Professional nutjob Anjem Choudary got what he really wanted this morning – not a demonstration in Wootton Bassett or fewer Afghan civilian casualties, but 20 minutes of primetime radio real estate on BBC 5 Live.
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Pakistan Blog
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By Faisal Shakeel
I couldn’t help talking to President Asif Ali Zardari’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar after spotting him in the courtroom the day the Supreme Court was to announce the short order on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
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