Rabia Ahmed

Rabia Ahmed

The writer is a freelance columnist. Read more by her at http://rabia-ahmed.blogspot.com/

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Hum aisi cheezein nahin kartay

(We don’t do such things) By exposing the extent of the problem, the ‘Me Too’ campaign has made it impossible to ignore the subject of sexual abuse of women. It should not have been

Oct 23, 2017
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Incitement to violence

“…statements ‘distancing themselves’ from Captain Safdar’s viewscame several days too late for decency,and much too late for  a family belonging to the Ahmadi faiththat was

Oct 16, 2017
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An opportunity for prosperity?

Some individuals in the meantime have the foresight and the nous to seize the opportunityso obviously presented to them in the Tharparkar district of Sindh,a large subtropical desert inv

Oct 10, 2017
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Why that speech was important

“Don’t blame us for the Haqqanis,and don’t blame us for the Hakim Saeeds.These were the people who were your darlings just twenty to thirty years ago.They were being wined and dined in t

Oct 2, 2017
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Like the old woman who lived in a shoe

There was an old woman who lived in a shoeShe had so many children, she didn’t know what to doShe gave them some broth without any breadShe whipped them all soundly, and put them to bedIn

Sep 25, 2017
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A Chinese conspiracy? Really?

‘We always underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten years. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.’ (Bill Gates)It would be comical if it weren’t so tragic th

Sep 19, 2017
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Keeping the narrative alive

Last year, the first ever official report on multidimensional poverty in Pakistan was released. It was compiled with technical support from the UNDP and the University of Oxford.Accordin

Sep 5, 2017
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Pride at the grassroots

May God bless the people of Pakistan …it isn’t the leaders who make us proud.It is people like this. The common people of the country.  Seventy years into

Aug 14, 2017
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Hoist by their own petard

This country often seems close to a destruction brought about by its own people.  PTI women’s wing’s challenge shows how little justice is understood, how seldom people think,

Aug 7, 2017
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Getting in to the Ministry of Magic

Which victory, pray tell, are we celebrating?Would you consider a man who admits to communication with a Supreme Court judge - whether or not this claim is true - to have any inkling whatsoever of j

Jul 31, 2017
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Once upon a time, there was a goose

Making discrimination easier and differences prominent The Nazi regime in Hitler’s Germany barred Jews from holding public office, and from marrying persons of another race. Later of course many Jews were shot,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/07/11/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-goose/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jul 11, 2017