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Vegetarianism and Yoga in Pakistan

"K. Shahid, a newspaper editor working in Lahore, adopted vegetarianism few years ago and he describes the ‘slaughter-fest’ on Bakra Eid as one of the many reasons for his ‘conversion’."...

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How Uttar Pradesh helped ravage Af-Pak

It's not vegetarianism or Yoga, but beef and Islam that India has been exporting to the world. India has been the world's top-most exporter of Islam for more than 100 years. I don't think even Saudi...

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On 'mass media' and 'employment'

I keep saying to myself -- (since I am the best listener to my own 'wisdom') -- 'mass media' is a euphemism. All 'mass media' that exists in the world is actually a 'propaganda' system firmly embedded...

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'Ghar Wapasi' that 'Hindus' need

It should be deemed profoundly offensive and abusive for anyone to have their culture, their traditions, and their mode of thinking labelled 'religion' -- considering that 'religion' was once another...

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'Religion' and 'caste' are fake categories kept alive by colonial-imperial...

Portraying the killing of P. Pranay Kumar in Miryalaguda town in Telangana in Sep. 2018 for marrying Amrutha Varshini as "caste-based violence" and the killing of a "Dalit" is a lovely example of the...

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You have been sized up and framed in a 'window'; you are the target!

If you are an Indian you are in the "10/40 Window (from North Africa to South East Asia) which is where most of the non-Christian religions hold sway". "Collectively they are known as the THUMB people...

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Urinating in standing position is not the Sunnat of the Prophet of Allah...

What exactly is the righteous way for the humanity to urinate --- in standing position or in sitting position? Does the applicable standard of righteousness apply the same or differently to men and...

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Is it Sunnat for a woman to remove her pubic hair?

In this video Mufti Tariq Masood of Jamiatur Rasheed-Karachispeaks on another moral dilemma that the humanity has encountered since time immemorial.Is it permissible for a woman to remove her pubic...

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Raksha by Hijab versus Raksha Bandhan

Why is Hijab a matter of choice and should be celebrated, but Sindoor or Karwa Chauth a symbol of patriarchy? Kindly elaborate @FeminismInIndia. Why this double standards?Maya Sharma (@IamMayaSharma)...

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Balakot sounds like Faridkot redux

Balakot sounds like Faridkot. Has anyone in the Indian media sought Jugnu Mohsin's comments on Balakot?Oh! I remember Indian media -- (such as "an Indian journalist" who wrote a book looking at Ajmal...

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How Indian media has been building a fake narrative about Kashmir

"The narrative, based on half-truths, selective interpretation of the history and unidimensional thinking created the image of India as an occupier and colonial".A Twitter thread on Kashmir by Khalid...

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Prof. Khalid Hameed of Bahawalpur has been killed as was Prof. Brij Narain of...

The boy who killed his teacher in #Bahawalpur says his teacher was a #blasphemer and spoke against #Islam. He says he is happy he killed...

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Minor girls Reena and Raveena of Sindh abducted and converted to Islam

Naila Inayat नायलाइनायत@nailainayat‏Teenage Hindu sisters Raveena and Reena Menghwar abducted from Ghotki, Sindh. On Holi, Hindu community stages sit-in on national highway against the refusal of...

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Reena, Raveena, and Sunnah

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.Sunnah means "the way of the prophet". The Sunnah...

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March 25 was a gravely significant day

“This is a war between the pure and the impure... The people here may have Muslim names and call themselves Muslims. But they are Hindu at heart. We are now sorting them out... Those who are left will...

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Dalit-Muslim Ekta Zindabad!!!

Kindly bring this post to the attention of Mamata Banerjee, Jignesh Mevani, Kavita Krishnan, Hartosh Singh Bal, Harsh Mander, Apoorvanand, and Siddharth Varadarajan.They must know how...

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'IL&FS scam' is a misnomer; it should be called 'PPP scam'

“In a shocking revelation of new information, it turns out that the government of India, in 2009, had issued a sovereign guarantee on behalf of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services...

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You may get killed for having a 'wing'

In the early 2000s when I was still a newbie at the Press Trust of India (PTI) I asked one of my seniors at the desk if it was OK to describe a political party as 'right wing'. I don't think I...

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Dera Sacha Sauda, and the fake 'sociology' and fraudulent 'journalism' of the...

Gurmeet Singh (of Dera Sacha Sauda) episode has intrigued me for a long time -- particularly the eventful days around his conviction for rape by a special CBI court in August 2017.That's because I...

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Amrit Pal Singh on ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs during Partition

The family of Amrit Pal Singh's parents was forced to flee their home in Hazara district of North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan) at the time of Partition.(So did...

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