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By Taapsi Ramchandani
“Doesn’t indiscipline bother you?”
“Of course it does! Like, I can’t stand people spitting on the road. It simply isn’t done. So I tell them their intestines would dry up if they didn’t swallow their spit. It works on some of them,” says Mrs Shahane, her eyes crinkling with mirth.
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Arts
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 By Kalsoom Lakhani
This past Tuesday, I attended the Washington, D.C. premiere of Bhutto, the documentary about the life of the late Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's first female prime minister, held at the National Geographic Society. The PBS Independent Lens film, directed by Duane Baughman and produced by longtime Bhutto friend and spokesman Mark Siegel, promised to be "a portrait of one of the most fascinating and complex figures of our time."
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Politics and Policy
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The Open Society Foundation is currently conducting its At Home in Europe project, which examines the position of minority communities in Europe. At present the project is focused on Europe's Muslim communities, and the Foundation is researching a number of monitoring reports under the banner Muslims in EU Cities. The project examines the level and nature of integration of Muslims in 11 European cities.
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Society
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An Indian and a Pakistani hope their partnership in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon can chip away at the enmity between their countries, which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.
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Politics and Policy
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Pakistan's poor public education system helps stoke militancy, while the religious schools often cited as a cause of extremism appear not to be a major risk factor, says a report by a Washington think tank.
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Politics
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By Anwar Akhtar
The most telling line in the Guardian's report on Birmingham council's decision to halt its controversial surveillance of Muslim areas came at the end: "Police sources said the initiative was the first of its kind in the UK that sought to monitor a population seen as being 'at risk' of extremism."
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Politics
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 By Irfan Husain
Scarcely a day goes by without a major story about Afghanistan in mainstream newspapers and TV channels in Britain and America. The tone of these reports is increasingly sombre. More and more journalists and politicians are now convinced that the quicker western forces pull out, the better.
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Society
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 By Tahmena Bokhari
I have often been asked how I feel representing an Islamic country such as Pakistan. As Mrs Pakistan World 2010 I am here to represent a lighter side of Pakistan. As a social worker, I am using this platform to create the necessary change in the hearts and minds of Pakistanis and the people of the world so that together we can create a stronger Pakistan.
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Politics
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By Zainab Mahmood
There goes my love of Belgian truffles, or a chance to walk down the Champs Elysees again or patronise my favourite seafood restaurant in the suburbs of Lyon with my mother, who incidentally wears the niqab. Considering we the misguided masses turned on Danish butter, Portuguese chicken and a Norwegian mobile company when the infamous caricature incident took place, one can only wonder if Pakistan will declare a fatwa on French fries in light of the French government’s stance on the ‘burqa’.
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Society
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After attacks on mosques last month left almost a hundred Ahmadis dead, Pakistan must decide what kind of nation it wants to be. Choose wisely, implores Zainab Mahmood.
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Society
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 By Tahmena Bokhari
Recently in the multicultural mosaic of Canada, the issue of the hijab and niqab has really taken on a life of its own. We argue about security threats, religious freedom, minority rights, accommodations, and so on. Most of it, frankly, to me has been overblown and Canadians have completely missed the point on this one. I also find it interesting that it is mainly men who are prominent spokespersons when the niqab, hijab, or any form of women’s dress comes up in the media.
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Arts
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By Gautam Pemmaraju
In May 1914 Komagata Maru, a Japanese steam ship carrying 376 Indian migrants, was refused permission to dock at Vancouver in a show of racial exclusionism. On return to Calcutta, a British gunboat met the ship and its passengers, who were considered to be political agitators, and a six-month standoff ensued.
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 By Anwar Akhtar
A recurring theme when you speak to many Pakistanis, both in Pakistan and among the diaspora, is a prolonged list of complaints about how Pakistan and Pakistanis are presented in the media.
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