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Posts Tagged ‘Rights’

A Matter of Pride

By Miss Specs • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I sat at my grandfather’s knee, lost in wonder, ‘Really, Abba Jan?’
‘Yes, my daughter,’ he said, ‘we did not have it as easy as you.’
‘So, you mean to say you worked on the train station all night and studied till dawn?’
He nodded.
‘When did you sleep?’
A gentle laugh full of remonstrance.
‘Child, when the only way out [...]



Is it in the manifesto? Part-4 for Pakistan Election 2008

By Farid Masood • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The only thing, which may be termed as above the law in any country is ‘Basic Human Rights’. If any law cannot provide it or have the weakness that any one can supercede it with its own rules then such law should be thrown into the sea and a new one should be implemented.
The right [...]