Category: Social Issues
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An Assessment of Pakistan’s Human Rights Record
Ever since Pakistan became a sovereign state, the issue of human rights has been one of grave importance. The partition of India in the second half of 1947 saw one of the worst massacre, as thousands of individuals were slaughtered, made homeless, raped and abused in the process of migrating to the homeland of their…
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Happy News: Once in a Blue Moon
I love discussions over current political situations and scenarios, read and watch the news (almost) everyday, and have friends and family to discuss the news with. It occurs to me: “Why is the news so negative” Every news-person and journalist I happened to inquire, gave me the response on these lines: “Negative? This is reality. The world is…
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Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
More than a year after the American Revolutionary War, the second Continental Congress, on 2nd July 1776, unanimously approved for the creation of an independent United States of America; independent of the Great Britain. The congressional committee selected Thomas Jefferson (later to become the 2nd Vice President and the 3rd President of the United States)…
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Confessions of a writoholic!
Some people write, because they have an inner urge to write or they might simply feel like writing; others do it because they have to…
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There’s a Special Place in Hell for Spammers!
I came across a statement on a blog that was somewhat like this: “There’s a special place in hell for spammers”. I am totally in favor and agreement of this statement. Spamming is illegal; breaking the law is like doing a sin, and sinners, figuratively speaking, go to hell, and actually speaking, law breakers go…
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Time is a Great Teacher, but does it Kill its Pupil?
Time is indeed a great teacher. It has taught many lessons, great and small, to all its eagerly learning pupil. History teaches us many lessons from notable examples, on a great personality’s vision or inspiration or a great tyrant’s mistakes. All these stories have something for us, a lesson or a moral. All those great…
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Belief and the Right to Believe
Did you know, that Belief and the Right to Believe are two separate things? A “Right to Believe” is something entirely different from a “Belief”. Understand the difference! You, under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the constitution and/or law(s) of your country, have the Right to Believe in any/everything you may wish to believe in/about. I,…
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Should tobacco smoking be entirely banned or simply discouraged?
Tobacco smoking has been proven to be injurious to health; it is in fact the single largest preventable cause of death around the world… So why do people smoke, and why they are allowed to smoke, and why should it be banned or discouraged?
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In the name of love
Love has many different meanings in many different contexts. But does this broad term encompass vandalism, robbery, arson, murder, terrorism? Many would disagree; many did just all this in the name of love. Someone made a blasphemous video insulting Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.); this ignited the sentiments of the Muslims and resulted in attacks on the…
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Positive Thinking
Following is the text of my speech on Friday, 10th August 2012 before the Assembly of students at St. Michael’s Convent School. The speech was titled ‘Positive Thinking’, was a part of my personal effort to reduce, if not eradicate negativity and negative thinking from my fellow students’ minds. Respected Deputy Principal, teachers and my…