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Why People Write in Public Toilets?

By Amna Gilani • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

I was traveling towards Swabi from Lahore on Motorway and wondering as what an outclass and outstanding roads we have got, and the same drivers who become crazy on G.T Road or intracity roads, were driving like angels. Flashing lights of motorway cops were enough to ensure tranquil driving.
Scenic motorway is surely a gift to [...]



Give Your Zakat to IDPs

By Amna Gilani • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The crisis of the refugees pouring in by millions from the Swat and Dir and FATA is getting worse day by day and still it would take almost a year to bring back the routine of life in these areas. Sufferings and miseries are mounting, and the complexity of the culture mingled with mismanagement and [...]



MP and Lahore Girl Rape : No Sky Fallen

By Amna Gilani • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

First read a news from Australia:
Sydney: Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon resigned on Thursday over “mistakes related to accountability,” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. Fitzgibbon stepped down over revelations that he called an army general in charge of defence health services to a meeting with his brother, who runs an insurance company. “The minister has [...]



Girls ZONG Mobile Numbers in T.V ad

By Amna Gilani • May 30th, 2009 • Category: Misc

One wonders as where in the hell the PEMRA is when the girls are giving out their mobile phone numbers openly in the advertisements of ZONG, a telecommunication company in Pakistan. Not only the girls mobile numbers are being uttered by the girls themselves in the ads, but they are also get displayed at the [...]



Kalsoom Baloch Love Marriage Issue

By Amna Gilani • May 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Chief Justice Lahore High Court has released the Kalsoom Baloch, his husband and her husband’s relatives and have declared that Kalsoom is free and can go anywhere. This is yet another not-so-uncommon sight in the Pakistan and this case once again highlights a very burning issue.
Kalsoom Baloch tied love bond in marriage with Fazal Abbass [...]



Fraud With Swat IDPs : Kidnapping of Girls : Robbings

By Amna Gilani • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Where the over-whelming majority of the people are reaching out and trying to help in their own way according to their capacity in need of hour, there are some black sheeps with steely hearts, who are robbing the Internally Displaced People from Swat, Buner and Dir. This is extremely horrendous and very much sad and [...]



Peshawar Girl Kidnapped and Sold to Soldier

By Amna Gilani • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

A gang of kidnappers, picking up young girls from parts of Peshawar and Nowshera, has sold a 14-year-old girl of Jalozai village to a law-enforcer in Rajanpur after she was abducted while on way to school in February last year.
A number of females went missing from parts of Peshawar and Nowshera during the past months [...]



Why Whore is Called Taxi in Pakistan?

By Amna Gilani • May 6th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Well you never stop getting education in any matters throughout your life. One such pretty confusing, embarrassing and thought provoking bit of education I got yesterday, when two ladies faught like mad cats with each other in a “Mailad” function. First they revealed each other’s family secrets, then described why their daughters are not getting [...]



Adult Women Abusing Young Pakistani Girls in Karachi : Shocking Taboos

By Amna Gilani • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Misc

It’s a view as how our society refuses to acknowledge some very dark and shivering ethos of our so called conservative and closed society, where even talking about sex is considered shameful and highly offensive. It’s not uncommon to hear and read incidents in which adult males sexually abuse children or boys, but it’s rare [...]



Why Girls in Pakistan Elope

By Amna Gilani • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Running away with one’s beloved secretly is as common as anything in Pakistan. Stories of girls leaving their home without permission of anybody with some lover can be found in any neighborhood and social taboos have failed to stop this trend. With the current technology of mobile phones and internet available, planning for eloping is [...]