Recently the Bollywood film actress Shabana Azmi said something somewhere against the practice of Burqa and there was a tiny controversy in the sensitive Mullah world. No, I’m not picking up Muslim issues to manifest a proclivity…I see very little TV these days and read very little newspaper and whenever I do I come across such issues. That day on TV they were discussing why Shabana Azmi should keep her beak shut about the issues she doesn’t know a thing about.
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I was just reading in the newspaper today; there is a law in Pakistan (it could be existing everywhere in the Muslim world) called Hadood that makes it incumbent upon the rape victim to produce 4 witnesses in case she lodges a complaint, and in case she cannot produce 4 witnesses, she is charged with adultery and punished accordingly. How sick and stupid can a system be to accommodate such laws?!
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A few months ago I had written about a Turkish novelist being hounded by her government for insulting the country, another Turkish writer with a similar reputation has won this year’s Nobel prize for literature.
I’ve been having hardware problems for some time; and day before yesterday my Toshiba laptop’s hard disk crashed just seconds after I’d taken important backups. When you’ve been using your laptop or computer for a few years, you can detect their subtle nuances. So as soon as something told me that my hard disk was about to crash, I started moving my files to my PC. Just when I had backed up the life-saving files (all the content writing projects I’ve done so far, my client’s PHP files, the mp3 songs my 15-month-old daughter loves and our family photo archives) and I was about to backup “disposable” files the laptop stopped responding and after that it never did even after I had tried installing everything from the original disk.
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The nation seems to be divided over whether Mohammed Afzal, the prime accused in the 2001 parliament attack, should be given death sentence or not. Yasin Malik of JKLF has gone as far as claiming that the killing of Afzal will derail the Indo-Pak peace process (as if some peace process exists!). Yesterday I saw in a news channel that some have claimed the entire Kashmire valley shall be up in flames if Afzal is hanged.
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