Islam has played an important role in the creation and continued survival of Pakistan as a sovereign state. As Pakistan started off, the use of the two-nation theory and a united Muslim front was a useful identity to an otherwise splintered nation, too similar to it’s much larger Hindu counterpart. As Pakistan grew from a theory into an actualized nation, it was proved that this wasn’t a solid foundation for a country as Bangladesh won independence, disregarding Muslim unity in exchange for…
Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of northern Pakistan experienced their worst floods in 80 years. Flash floods and continuous heavy rain during the country’s seasonal monsoon have as a result, “affected over 14 million people, killed around 1,550 people, and have injured about 2,000 others.” In addition, “around 6 million people have lost their homes and are in need of shelter.” According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Pakistan Meteorological Department reports…
Personalities and Speaks I am Mohammed Alrefaei from Saudi Arabia, I was born in March 26, 1994, I am talkative and bold most of the time. In Saudi Arabia people respect who is talkative and have bold personality. It’s part of our culture, that people know my personality by my way of speaking to them. As I am known in Saudi Arabia that I have a strong personality because of my way of speaking Arabic. I didn’t know that my personality will change in different language. Communication is so…
Mahatma Ghandi It all started in the train station of Durban when I was in my way to defend a case in Pretoria, I set a foot inside first class cabinet and the guards were watching me like if I was some a Demon entering to the gates of heaven. So I went to my seat ,and I started to read some of my notes I was having a pleasant moment but then something I will never imaging could happen, happened to me. A guard came to me and put his hand on my shoulder, and he ask me what are…
she still speaks to audiences around the world, and fights for women 's education. Before the Taliban took over Pakistan, people were not nervous to leave their homes. The Pakistanian people roamed the streets, and interacted with neighbors. People left their doors unlocked at night because they knew everyone and trusted them with everything they owned. When the Taliban moved into Pakistan, it was as if these people 's lives flipped…
Kristin Lewis describes how the Taliban’s shove Malalas way of life around and around,she has zero rights just because she is a girl. She is no longer able to go to school, everyday she risks her life blogging and talking about rights. She lives in Pakistan where the taliban are rapidly taking over her government and changing the rights in a horrifying way. Malala was able to surpass all of the horrifying things by attending an all girls school at risks high above a normal risk. On October 9th,…
Imagine being covered from head to toe each time you left your house; hidden under a long cloak, your eyes blocked out by mesh, your appearance anonymous to preserve your purity. Those who dared to show their bodies would be stoned or thrown in prison. This is the reality of the world that many women lived in under the Mujahideen occupation of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini’s portrayal of Afghanistan in 1000 Splendid Suns gives an insight into the mistreatment of women in a heavily misogynistic…
Security briefing paper on Pakistan Introduction: Having lost the last vestiges of its secular inspiration in the bloody marshes of Bangladesh in 1971, the country the world knows as Pakistan is at present under siege from a motley armada of militant groups, trying to establish an Islamist utopia . The situation is made worse by the schizophrenic state of the country’s counter-terrorism approach, with differential treatments meted out to Afghan Taliban and Laskhkar-e- Taiba ( groups…
The book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini describes life in Afghanistan. Hosseini Talks about how he grew up in Kabul. This book gives a complete background of the Afghani culture and History. There are two different setting in this book, one in Kabul and the other in US, and narrates the Kite runner through his voice. The author expresses a lot of his emotions in the book like fear, jealousy, lies, betrayal and loyalty. His writing is very simple which makes it a valuable and easy to read book.…
is an autobiography of Tehmina Durrani highlighting her marriage with the famous political figure of Pakistan Ghulam Mustafa Khar also known as the “Lion of Punjab”. She openly talks about the fourteen years of emotional and physical abuse she endured in this marriage on the hands of Mustafa Khar . The political leader who may otherwise seem very charming and charismatic to the public of Pakistan is actually a sociopath revealed through Durrani’s book. What kept Durrani stuck and tangled in this…