The wee hours of late Saturday brought a metamorphosis in my life. Not just that I was muffled, picked up, tortured, and humiliated. No absolutely not. Rather the torture has removed the remaining fear, if there was any in my heart and mind, and has instead given me the realization that we have to die [...]
All articles in category: "Law and Order"
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Why my attackers failed but gave me strength
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Florida administration bans churchs plan of Quran burning
City officials in Gainesville, Florida, have denied a burning permit to a local church that wants to burn copies of the Quran on the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks. Gainesville officials say book burnings like the one planned by the Dove World Outreach Center are prohibited under the city’s burning ordinance. Interim Fire Chief [...]
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Police reforms are critical now
The mob-lynching of two boys in Sialkot on Aug 15, and that too in the presence of the police, was a display of virtual complicity of representatives of the state in a crime committed by roguish non-state elements. And the police were there, as the videos show, when the corpses of teenage brothers Mughees and [...]
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Round and roundRound and round
What is happening at the National Accountability Bureau has strong elements of classic farce about it, but it seems unlikely that there is going to be a happy ending. The Supreme Court had taken a sword to the upper echelons of NAB and declared its prosecutor general to be unlawfully posted to his job and [...]
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Criminal breaches in Pakistan
It is becoming apparent that the issue of deliberate breaches in levees to save the lands of the rich and influential is growing rapidly in proportion and could have a devastating impact on the future chain of events. For weeks, flood-affected people in southern Punjab, in Sindh and in Balochistan have been expressing anger over [...]
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