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Paranoid Maulvies and the Vilification of Vaccines

As this article is being written, more than 150 million people worldwide have received the COVID 19 vaccine. China has gifted Pakistan with half a million doses and the frontline workers have already started receiving the vaccine. However, when the first few doses were being administered it was followed by press conferences by health specialists…

BySaad RashidFebruary 17, 20210Comments

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Sufism in Pakistan and Its Portrayal in Mass Media

Sufism (tasawwuf) refers to a spiritual branch of Islam, a mystical belief system that promotes principles and practices that aim at direct communication between a human being and God. Sufi practices are specifically designed to free people of any desires that could keep them from the experience of pure divine love. It demands complete abandonment…

ByZainab HasanFebruary 14, 20210Comments

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GameStock-A win for the Proletariat

Most of us have become familiar with the terms “Short-selling”, “GameStop” and “Buy and Hold” over the last month or so. Even if most of you have never dabbled in the stock market, or have ever shown enough interest to want to learn about it, it has become an inescapable part of the news cycle.…

BySaad RashidFebruary 9, 20210Comments

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COVID-19 and It’s Impact on Mental Health

Unlike the Novel Coronavirus, Depression is a disease that has existed for almost as long as human beings have been in existence. The issue of mental illness has come to the fore during the current pandemic and the resulting lockdowns. Not caused by any pathogen, depression is an illness that we can not develop a…

BySaad RashidFebruary 7, 20210Comments

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The Vilification of Fantasy Under Capitalism

The Horrors of Capitalism Capitalism has not done the average man much good. That is something that most of us can agree on. One can always point the finger at the available alternates to the existing structures i.e socialism, communism, or the other quasi-socialist structures, that they have not done a decent job in replacing…

BySaad RashidFebruary 2, 20210Comments

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Language and Privilege – The Cannoli Incident

Most of us have now been acquainted with the happenings of the “Cannoli Incident” as it has become known around social media. For any of you that decided to stay off of social media since the middle of this month, or are only aware of what happened through the multitude of memes that made the…

BySaad RashidJanuary 28, 20210Comments

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Anime and Pakistan: The Japanese Artform Making Its Way To Pakistani Living Rooms.

Anime and Pakistan are not two words that one would normally expect to hear together in the same sentence. For the longest time in Pakistan, the idea of consuming media from foreign cultures that are not either Western (largely Hollywood) or Indian (Bollywood or the soap serials that surround it) has been, well, foreign. Recently,…

BySaad RashidJanuary 25, 20210Comments

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The Devastating Prevalence of Violence against Transgender and Intersex Communities

Sexual orientation and gender identity are contested concepts within Pakistani society. Despite the differences between the two, they are often used interchangeably and are regarded as the same thing. While gender identity refers to the knowledge of your sex – knowing whether you are a man, a woman, or another gender, your sexual orientation is…

ByKhudeeja AsifJanuary 18, 20210Comments

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The Plight of the Hazara- A generational Curse

Introduction Pakistan, as a state, does not exactly have a stellar reputation when it comes to the treatment of ethnic and religious minorities. Be it the forced conversion of young Hindu girls, or the blatant killings of individuals of the Ahmadi faith, it seems that unless you are a Sunni and a Punjabi as well,…

BySaad RashidJanuary 12, 20210Comments

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India and Pakistan – Two stories about one place.

India and Pakistan are quite similar in culture, language, and cuisine. Even though the separation of the subcontinent came about ostensibly due to the fact that Muslims and Hindus could not live in a single state in harmony, we are more alike than we are dissimilar. We eat the same food, we have similar marriage…

BySaad RashidJanuary 6, 20210Comments

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