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Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’

Marriage for PLEASURE?

By Johann • Jan 10th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Marriage for pleasure?
Saudi Mufti: Saudi Men Need Permit To Marry Foreign Women
Senior Saudi cleric Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Abikan has issued a fatwa banning Saudi citizens from marrying women who are not residents of the kingdom without obtaining a permit from the authorities.
He stated that marrying foreign women is for pleasure purposes only, and that when this [...]



We really need to Take Back The Tech!

By Rai Azlan • Nov 27th, 2009 • Category: Technology

On Nov 25th, it was The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and I was thinking about this serious issue of the violence against the 51% of the global population. After reading about this issue I am almost in shock that this phenomenon is an alarming issue not only in this region [...]



Pakistan’s Insensitivity to Non-Muslims

By Mudassar Jawad • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Pakistan is not only a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic society but it is also a multi-religion society. The latest census data indicates that around 4% of the total population is Non-Muslim; little over 6,000,000. Though 6 million may look smaller number when compared to the total population of 170 million but it is still more [...]



A Salute to Ansar Burney!

By Mian Usman • Aug 19th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Source:http://www.ansarburney.com
Lets review the work of a great man as described on his organization’s web site.
Established in 1980 by Ansar Burney, Advocate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi; the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust was the first organization to introduce true human rights in Pakistan.
With a mission to work as a non-political, non-governmental and non-profitable organization, [...]



Reforming Our Gulags

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Prison, the name immediately conjures up images of infamous ones in yesteryears like Bastille, Alcatraz, Newgate, San Quentin and the Devil’s Island. Today we have our share of Guantanamo Bay, Pul Chakri and Abu Ghraibs.
The right to [...]



Baluchistan: as I saw it !

By ALE-Xpressed • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Uninhabited deserts, barren land and an under-developed region going through insurgency for long – this is what I knew about Baluchistan before setting my foot there. There has been a curiosity somewhere inside me to know the details but it never grew strong enough to make a trip to the province. A few of us [...]



Elections 2008: Remembering the House Arrests & Lost Ones

By Farid Masood • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look

19th General Election 2008 are about to end and who have approach to their constituencies they may have polled their votes. Polling a vote is also a show of independence.
A delegate of Election Commission of Pakistan had offered the house arrested Chief Justice of Pakistan if he likes to cast his vote, he would be [...]



American Poodles Don’t Get Democracy

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

In order to salvage our beloved Pakistan, it’s very crucial in these days to understand that precisely who is rocking the boat, and who is the evil force behind this chain of terrorism and crisis over crisis.
We Pakistanis don’t want to turn our backs on democracy, and we don’t want to see our lawyers and [...]



America Enjoys Super Tuesday, and we are told ‘Shut Up’

By Ghazala Khan • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

We Pakistanis are envious of American public who is right indulged in Super Tuesday with all zeal and zest, and America is just rocking with the fervor of Elections, which are still months away. In Pakistan, though we are told that Western democracy is not for us, and neither could we enjoy the same basic [...]



Mashhood: A lost Pakistani

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 13th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

His name is Mashhood resident of Wah, District Rawalpindi, Punjab (Pakistan). His brief story is as under:
He has done MBA from Al-Khair University, Pakistan and after getting his degree he started his job search. As we all know to start a career in Pakistan is a much difficult assignment, those who have links and support [...]