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TANGLED by qurratulain khan 1st year
One keeps hearing about what it means to be a Pakistani on and off. Apparently, Pakistan is one of the 'most dangerous countries in the world'.
Ever suffered the indignity and embarrassment that comes from being blamed for someone else's mistake entirely? That is probably what millions of Muslims like me all over the world feel-- especially those who have their roots in Pakistan.
Despite the conditions here in our country, we still love it- and we always would love it more than any other place in the world. If we seek to study or work abroad, its not because we don't love our homeland. Its because everyone wants a quality of life or education that they might not find here. But true love is unconditional.
What is happening in NWFP and northern Areas isn't the fault of an average Pakistani. The average Pakistani is neither an extremist nor a terrorist.
It isn't the fault of people who wish to lead their lives peacefully and successfully, without the fear of an attack from US on the pretext of "combating terrorism" or that of a sudden bomb explosion which might render them and their loved ones lifeless. It is not the fault of the likes of me. we are like deers caught in the glaring headlights of a racing car (if that happens to be an expression at all!). it is the fault of the foreign forces invading our country
- there are people in the above- mentioned particular parts of Pakistan who have lost their own homelands and now are trying to destroy ours. there are forces and infiltrators from countries that seek to spread the sphere of the area of the world that they govern.These are the very forces that publicly condemn us.
They wouldn't stop at anything to achieve their end. They would support the very same Taliban growth to take over the USSR that they so openly degrade now. The Taliban are their very own creation. their creations plague the world and then they have the audacity to claim that Pakistani military and government aren't tackling the problem of terrorism very well.
Who, may I ask, asked the US to assume the role of a policeman charging around like a mad bull with a baton in his hand? What makes that particular country think that its government is any more capable than that of the UK, France, Ireland, China, India, Pakistan,Sri Lanka, Russia, Canada , or for that matter that of any country in the world?
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“CHAINS VS. NONE” by Qurratulain khan
1st year
Quote : Despite the fast- changing world and social orders, a fact remains as true as ever- our world is a male- dominated world.
No matter how many female traffic- controllers we might hire for the sake of pretence of gender equality, it cannot be denied that women are still horribly degraded in our country.
A 17th century term still applied in our society is home- correction whereby a man, being the head of the family, beats up the female members under his care under the excuse of morally correcting them.
A 17th century term still applied in our society is home- correction whereby a man, being the head of the family, beats up the female members under his care under the excuse of morally correcting them.
What has never made any sense to me is why the moral standards that a woman is expected to uphold are way higher than those that a man is required to maintain? Why can a guy flirt with a girl and not be chided for it (and just get excused because after all, ‘Boys will be boys!’) but a girl talking to a guy gets killed in the name of ‘honor’? How come men get to stare but women are asked to preserve their sanctity by wearing long and thick veils?
Is it because it is a well- established fact that men have no control over their actions and are by nature merely brainless, staring baboons? Or is it because we have never managed to lose our centuries old concept of the subservient status of women? What is it- honor or ego that doesn’t let men rest unless they exert tyrannical influence over a woman?
As much as I would like to justify the above-mentioned behavior using the former reason (;-)), it cannot be denied that it really is the latter cause that this whole scenario stems from.
On the other extreme, there is the concept of a liberal lifestyle. Whether you check out the music videos on MTV, our very own stage dramas, the plots of various Bollywood and Lollywood flicks or the internet, the Las Vegas casinos and all the bars- the first thing you are likely to notice is the role women play. The concept of feminism is being highly over- played. Women are just used as pretty toys to be played with and they are all dolled- up to play that role. Even the executive types of our country think that being dressed modestly is a sign of backwardness.
Flip through photos of high- end social gatherings. 98 percent of all female dresses are either sleeveless (n probably backless too, but that doesn’t show!) or nearly so (n yeah I am talking about those ½ inch long sleeves), 1.999 percent have those really short ones and there’s a 0.001 percent chance that you would see anyone wearing anything near a full sleeve that isn’t all slittted up to the shoulders.
I wouldn’t hesitate to bet that not even a quarter of our literate population is aware of who Condolezza Rice is and out of those who do know who she is, 95 percent don’t even take a speck of interest in what she says and does, but more than 80 percent are probably huge fans of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and the like. Why this disparity? It seems as if when we are setting a standard for the independence of women to be judged against, it all comes down to who wears the minimum possible clothes. The more revealing your clothes are- the higher you rank on a scale of 1 to 10 on independence. Male artists don’t need to strip down to be famous but all the success of the female artists depends on what their sex appeal ratings are.
Degradation of women not only occurs when they are confined within four walls against their will but even more so when they used as objects of pleasure for men and nothing more.
Therefore, on one hand, women need to stand up for their rights and enjoy life; on the other, they need to play down their physical appeal and concentrate more on the intellect. Where some of them need a more independent lifestyle, the others need to control themselves and take a look at what they are doing to their own dignity and how they are making it difficult for other women to preserve theirs.
After all it isn’t always choosing between a veil and near- nudity. It doesn’t even come down to whether men and women have been created equal because even if they haven’t, they have been given equal rights. There is a moderate way that all religions preach, one that is the safest and the most progressive. One where women don’t have to give everything up, be it their modesty or their independence, its the path where women succeed on the basis of their intellect and talent not their meekness or physical appeal. Now it is up to you to decide which one to follow.
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Zaid Hamid's army of Di*ks..
Where he didn't ignore it, he fudged the issues so grandly that his talking points were eerily similar to some of the most emphatically unrealistic analysis of what is going on in Pakistan these days. In the most distressing part of Obama's speech, he repeated the spurious link between extremism and the security problems in Pakistan, saying "…as innocents have been killed from Karachi to Islamabad, it has become clear that it is the Pakistani people who are the most endangered by extremism. Public opinion has turned. The Pakistani Army has waged an offensive in Swat and South Waziristan. And there is no doubt that the United States and Pakistan share a common enemy."
Now, with the PPP government buckling under the weight of its own broken promises, it seems Richard Holbrooke has convinced people that a hybrid diplomatic relationship, with six toes in the General Headquarters of the Pakistani military, and four in service of the president and prime minister -- whoever wins the skirmish -- is going to somehow yield success in getting Pakistan to take on the Taliban of Afghanistan.