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The Good, The Bad and The Paranoid

From the Blog hasnatsheikh [image: Image] In January 2011, Governor of Punjab ,a man called Salman Taseer was shot dead by his own bodyguard for speaking against Pakistan penal code 295 (The blasphemy laws) which in his guards opinion counted as disrespect for the Holy Prophet PBUH.Taseer stood up for this because in his own words, “The thing I find disturbing is that if you examine the cases of the hundreds tried under this law, you have to ask how many of them are well-to-do? Why is it that only the poor and defenceless are targeted? How come over 50 per cent of them are Christians when they form less than 2 percent of the country’s population. This points clearly to the fact that the law is misused to target minorities.” I heard some of his interviews, where he said very clearly that he as a Muslpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

Eternal Homes of the Transient Heart

From the Blog awaisaftab“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.” *Truman Capote*, *Other Voices, Other Rooms* pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

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