Rabia Ahmed

Rabia Ahmed

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

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Keep it down

Pakistan to must tackle climate change The world climate is becoming steadily warmer, because its growing population contributes to climate change and global warming. The population o

Sep 14, 2019
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If your house is burning

Imran Khan should remember he is PMThe Prophet Muhammad would target the leaders of a community when spreading his message. This was not because he was a sycophant, but because he knew that va

May 11, 2019
Childhood immunisationColumns

Childhood immunisation

Making vaccines compulsory will not work As medical knowledge currently stands, it is clear that immunisation protects the immunised person, and society, from the spread of infectious

May 5, 2019
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The responsibilities that go with it

Instead of being more tolerant and caring, we are the oppositeOne angle to events such as the horrific tragedy, the massacre in Sri Lanka is that the people apparently responsible for the murd

Apr 28, 2019
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This perpetually burning building

The people who make the country bearable On April 15th at around 16.30 GMT, a fire broke out under the wooden roof of the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral, one of France’s most ico

Apr 21, 2019
Pot calling the kettle black?Columns

Pot calling the kettle black?

The Koh-i-Noor isn’t coming here any time soon Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has demanded that Britain should apologise for the 1919 Jalianwala Bagh massacre, and the 1943 Ben

Apr 14, 2019
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The ‘un-Islamic’ punch

Women are human as well An answer to a question on Quora regarding the best punch in boxing says: ‘As a generalisation, a right cross will suit many taller people, and a right hook many

Mar 31, 2019
The power of symbolismColumns

The power of symbolism

Whether there is eternal glory is known only to HimPeople appear to be divided between two opposing camps, one that believes there is eternal glory in store for those who give up their lives i

Feb 25, 2019
Manipulative advertisingColumns

Manipulative advertising

Our country does need usAdvertising is not meant to be simply inane jingles and cavorting models, although it often is; there is supposed to be some serious psychology behind the exercise, and

Feb 18, 2019
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MEOW?

The legal fraternity in Pakistan needs to grow upIn Karachi, a car driver – a woman -- was recently charged with killing a cat in a road accident.It seems that the woman’s car hit the

Feb 11, 2019
QĬNG CHÌ SĀ DÀNColumns

QĬNG CHÌ SĀ DÀN

Stop racism please!If Adam and Eve had been Chinese they would have eaten the snake rather than let it live to plague their descendants. Imagine, if you can: no Hitler, no Robespierre, no Henr

Jan 28, 2019