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EDL: They shall not pass Print E-mail
Friday, 09 September 2011 14:06
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By Rachael Saunders

 

Writing last night in the wake of the EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets, local councillor Rachael Saunders says that politicians have to be able to keep people safe.

Last Updated on Friday, 09 September 2011 14:13
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9/11: the memory of violence Print E-mail
Friday, 09 September 2011 14:00
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By Madawi Al-Rasheed

 

The atrocity of 11 September 2001 entrenched an imaginary polarisation between “the west and the rest” - and buried a deeper reality that is only now emerging to light, says Madawi al-Rasheed.

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Airing dirty lingerie, Pakistani style Print E-mail
Thursday, 08 September 2011 00:39
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By Themrise Khan

 

An item on the agenda of a 3-day annual celebration of South Asian culture in downtown Toronto, Canada, instinctively caught my eye. With a title like ‘Dirty Pakistani Lingerie’, how could it not?

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 September 2011 00:48
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A New Kid Emerges on the Anti Muslim Blogger Block Print E-mail
Thursday, 08 September 2011 00:32
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By Anwar Akhtar

 

I confess, I’ve enjoyed reading some Telegraph Blogs recently. There’s the ever enjoyable histrionics of James Delingpole, determined to take the crown from Melanie Philips as most frothing media shock jock. Melanie will not relinquish her title without a fight, but the best of British, James. With arguments that Wind farms, Guardian readers and multi culturalism led to the global economic meltdown you’re making a sterling effort!

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The difference between Karachi and the Tribal Areas Print E-mail
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:16
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By Ahsan Butt

 

Without being too presumptuous, it’s fair to say that most readers of this blog share my belief that sending the Army into Karachi to quell the violence there would be absolutely disastrous. Furthermore, it’s also perhaps fair to say that most readers of this blog believe, as I do, that the military’s heavy-handedness in Balochistan is pernicious, counter-productive and dumb. And going back in history, it’s also perhaps fair to say that most readers of this blog look upon our military’s actions in Bengal in 1971 with a mixture of shame, disgust and embarrassment, as I do.

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