tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . Judge sahab, I humbly appeal to you to take suo moto action against irresponsible reporting of various news channels, esp when we are faced with tragedies that claim hundreds of lives. Can you order that in case of any calamity, natural or otherwise, channels like Geo News,...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — There are direct and indirect linkages between the demographical structure of Pakistan, its economic condition and the number of children employed. Child labour is the result of lack of social security, poverty, unemployment (or under-employment) and excess population. Unless...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . If you happen to be a single Pakistani woman traveling on your own, chances are you will get asked questions by fellow travelers, random strangers and at times by the flight attendants that may vary from harmless chit chat to something that would rival a Spanish inquisition....
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . A couple of years back I was in Europe for a few weeks and was with a large group of twenty something people. One of them was an American guy quite smitten with a Pakistani girl. One day, he was just so full of love (it was late in the evening and he has [...]
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . Whenever the word Hawaii is mentioned, normal folks think about white sand beaches, cool drinks, surfing and snorkeling. If you are a politically-minded person you may think about Hawaii as the birthplace of the current US president, but no one would think of Hawaii as the...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . Those of us who were born in Zia era or afterwards have heard one demand/pledge/rhetoric depending on who is uttering it and that is we need an Islamic government. The question is: what is an Islamic government? Is it the Islamic caliphate where one caliph will rule over the...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — Earlier this year, I was teaching an undergrad course on Gender. While discussing femininity and feminism, I asked my class to name one male and female they think of as the epitome of masculine and feminine beauty. The idea was to determine how the concept of masculinity and...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . It is not easy being a woman anywhere in the world but it is a tad more difficult being a woman in Pakistan. Last week, we saw two gang rape victims in headlines again for all the wrong reasons. Mukhtaran Mai was reportedly threatened by a sitting MNA from treasury benches,...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — Last year, my father fell ill. Abba has had a stroke and was not doing too well; he had lost his gag reflex and could not eat or drink anything. He spoke very few words because even that was too painful for him. Although one is never mentally ready to lose a parent, I somehow...
tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com — . Something really sad happened last week: Akbar Ali poisoned himself, his wife and three of his six children because of poverty. The man and his daughters are dead, while the wife is still alive. Only God knows what he must be thinking before he decided to take the toxic...