The language of the Lords has had and continues to have an iron clasp on the post-colonial nation and their dreams. In Pakistan, intelligence is a measure of how proficient in English you are. The language has close ties with the ideas of perceived status, class and value. It is a rather curious case despite…
It has become a tabboo to show in politic when one is a student. It is considered something to have any connection with violence, kachehri, jail yatras and many other mythical consequences that have their basis in nothing but myths created by state agents to protect the political hegemony of the state. However, the…
Von Willebrand disease is a common inherited bleeding disorder caused by a quantitative deficiency or qualitative defect of Von Willebrand factor. It is the commonest inherited bleeding disorder,yet it remains underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed in Pakistan.The disease was first described by Dr Erik Von Willebrand in 1926 in the Aland Archipelago. VWF is synthesized by the…
The recent Sialkot incident where a radical mob assassinated a Sri Lankan businessman accusing of blasphemy demonstrates the level of radical Islamist mind-set of not just hundreds of people who were directly involved in the incident but of masses of the Pakistani population. The wave of radicalism and intolerance has gone beyond limits. The incident…
Recent case of mob violence in Sialkot has brought again the blasphemy to the fore. The issue is thought of as extremist violence of fanatic religious mob stripped off of any political depth and meaning in it, which is another instance of an oversimplifying oriental attitude towards South Asian cosmologies. These narratives tend to think…
