Awaam by Vision21

58 per cent children in the country cannot read a sentence in Urdu: Report

vision 21 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:42:17 +0000

58 percent of the school going children, according to the report below, cannot read a sentence in Urdu. This simple fact has the most unfortunate implication for the future of the generations to come and for the future of this country. Only if the significance of it is realized. Ikram Junaidi | Dawn As many [...]

Maya Khan Aunty Brigade – Stay out of our parks

vision 21 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:50:35 +0000

Cross Post from TeethMaestro Subah Saveera with Maya Khan on Samaa TV actually chases people sitting in a park and asks them why are they sitting there. Firstly I believe it is NOT illegal for two people to sit [date] in a park, and secondly it was shocking to see the host and other women [...]

Waiting to receive pieces of daughter’s dead body

vision 21 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:14:07 +0000

Shakeel Anjum Tuesday, January 10, 2012 She was bitterly crying on phone begging for her life in the captivity, as she had seen her 16-year-old brother on a CD being slaughtered by kidnappers and pieces of his dead body were sent to her father by them some six years back. Where criminals are so powerful [...]

Why are we corrupt?

vision 21 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:42:04 +0000

by Dr. Farrukh Saleem The eleventh president of the Islami Jamhooria Pakistan is accused of having accumulated billions of dollars beyond his known sources of income. Down the food chain, our milkmen routinely adulterate their supplies with detergents, urea, boric acid, starch, hypochlorite and salts. Transparency International (Pakistan) claims that “49 percent of Pakistanis have [...]

Are you a complete human being or merely a vote

vision 21 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:04:36 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdFgi8bb-oc&feature=youtu.be

By Dr. Khalil Ahmad This MonoBlogue discusses the attitude of politicians towards the citizens and finds that they treat the citizens merely as vote, or voters, not as complete human beings. The MonoBlogue tries to bring home the point that no political party or a politician ever talks of the Fundamental Rights ensured in the Constitution, and there is no mention of these rights in their manifestos / programs either. The MonoBloguer exhorts the citizens to pressure the politicians to focus on the Fundamental Rights first, i.e. the bigger issues first, and then minor, though important, problems will get solved logically and gradually.

‘Failure’ was a word unknown to him

vision 21 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:52:23 +0000

Ayesha Jalal Mohammad Ali Jinnah envisaged Pakistan as a modern democratic state. Threatened by a deadly insurgency in the northwestern tribal areas linked to the American-led war in Afghanistan, and rent by conflict between and within the elected and non-elected institutions, Pakistan today could not be further away from its founder’s vision. The disregard shown [...]

The 14 Biggest Lies of 2011

vision 21 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:18:06 +0000

The big fibs that defined our year. BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 16, 2011 I live in Washington where lying is an art form. Actually, that suggests an artist’s intent and here in D.C., lying is more reflexive, like breathing or taking cash from fat cats. But when you live in a place like [...]

History lessons from Karbala

vision 21 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:16:02 +0000

By Hassan Abbas The idea of defiance against tyranny and oppression owes a great deal to Hussain ibne Ali, the hero of the battle of Karbala in 680 AD. With just 72 valiant followers and family members, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad faced the military might of the Muslim empire ruled then by a despot, [...]

Veenagate – my thoughts- By Faisal Kapadia

vision 21 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:45:38 +0000

PTH A freelance columnist, Faisal Kapadia lives in Karachi, writes on everything and social media and misses the time when we could tell the good guys from the bad by the color of their light sabers. He tweets with the same name and sometimes answers emails at faiskap666@gmail.com ________________________________________________________________ I cant fault veena malik for [...]

STATE AND RELIGION IN PAKISTAN

vision 21 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:24:26 +0000

PTH By Shahnaz Khan Will separation of state and religion contradict the spirit of the creation of Pakistan? Does this division threaten Islam? Should the state regulate the religious beliefs and activities of ALL Muslims? These questions are being hotly debated in Pakistan, with the primary focus on either the two nation theory or the [...]

Message to Americans

vision 21 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:14:44 +0000

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Message-to-Americans.html?soid=1102973772540&aid=8vtB00b7TdY. Filed under: Uncategorized

The women of Karbala

vision 21 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:55:45 +0000

TRADITIONAL Muslim set-ups place many restrictions on women. They cannot even venture out of their homes; most are required to restrict themselves to performing household chores only. Few Muslim women take up public roles; fewer still participate in outdoor events. All this is being done in the name of Islam by the self-styled guardians of [...]

Scourge of fake journals

vision 21 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:26:38 +0000

IT all began with false eyelashes. Growing up in the 1960s I could not fathom why actresses with plastic insertions appeared attractive to their fans. The equally disgusting discovery of fake-coloured nails on Americans was made in the late 1980s. An office mate explained these were off the shelf and not obtained through careful tending [...]

Hussain- The Light against Tyranny of Mind

vision 21 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:11:05 +0000

By Shaista Kazmi & Azhar Aslam Al Hussain o Minni Wa Ana Minal Hussain “Hussain is from me and I am from Hussain” [26] Al-Tirmidhi, II, 306. This Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (saw), which is agreed by Sunni and Shia traditions, is etched in the memories of thousands of minds. The prophet said that Hussain [...]

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing ‘Discipline’ Guides | | AlterNet

vision 21 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:59:53 +0000

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing ‘Discipline’ Guides | | AlterNet. Awaam No doubt, Humans can be the most harmful creature on the earth when they are ignorant , worse than the predators; they can construe the reason of violence out of the message of peace…it’s the blind and [...]

Circular debt

vision 21 — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:12:56 +0000

Salman Khalid and Kamal Munir WE live in a world where profits are privatised and losses are socialised. Nowhere is this truer than in Pakistan’s power sector. However, despite extensive debate in the national press, this reality still does not seem to be obvious to many. A few weeks ago, we wrote an article calling [...]

مسلم خواتین اورجائیداد کے حقوق

vision 21 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:09:14 +0000

یہ مضمون تحقیقی مقالہ ’مسلم خواتین اورجائیداد کے حقوق، ،پر مبنی ہے ،جو ،انسٹی ٹیوٹ آف اکنامک افیئرزلندن ،برطانیہ ، نے اکنامک افیئرز جرنل کے جون 2009کے شمارے میں شائع کیا۔ اظہر اسلم اورشائستہ کاظمی اسلامی دنیا میں مسلم خواتین کی حیثیت ایک متنازع موضوع ہے۔عورت کو جو حیثیت قرآن اورسنت نبوی میں دی گئی [...]

ایماندار لیڈر اور ایماندار پارٹی ـ ایک سیاسی مغالطہ

vision 21 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:55:05 +0000

Dr. Khalil Ahmad ہر استحصال کی بنیاد کسی تصور یا/مغالطے پر ہوتی ہے ۔ تعصبات، نفرتیں، محبتیں، سب اسی زمرے میں آتی ہیں ۔ پھر یہ کہ یہ تصورات یا مغالطے بہر طور کسی نہ کسی کلیشے سے جُڑے ہوتے ہیں یا اس کی شکل اختیار کر لیتے ہیں ۔ اسی طرح کا ایک تصور [...]

Looking for Alternatives

vision 21 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:46:28 +0000

Shabir H Kazmi The Economist With the commencement of winter, Hydel generation will decline and reliance on thermal power plants will increase. Since generation companies operating in public sector are contributing a nominal percentage, reliance on independent power plants (IPPs) will increase. Ideally this should have been a win-win situation for the IPPs but under [...]

America’s ‘Primal Scream’

vision 21 — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:03:02 +0000

The frustration in America isn’t so much with inequality in the political and legal worlds, as it was in Arab countries, although those are concerns too. Here the critical issue is economic inequity. According to the C.I.A.’s own ranking of countries by income inequality, the United States is more unequal a society than either Tunisia [...]