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Rab Nawaz

Rab Nawaz is a founding team member of Laaltain. He has worked as Laaltain's Editor in-Chief.

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Education: The Most Important Battle of All

Rab Nawaz There are only a hand­ful of issues in Pak­istan around which most socio-polit­i­cal stake­hold­ers can form a con­sen­sus,…

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Graffiti Art – An Alternative Medium

Rab Nawaz Wall chalk­ing is a com­mon phe­nom­e­non in Pak­istan, used most­ly by var­i­ous polit­i­cal and med­ical quacks to adver­tise…

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The Revolution that Never Was

Rab Nawaz More than five years ago, when this coun­try was reel­ing in the after­math of Musharraf’s regime, the mes­sian­ic…

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Fatwas and the Quest for Legitimacy

Rab Nawaz It has been some time since the recent edict of the Coun­cil of Islam­ic Ide­ol­o­gy (CII) — Pakistan’s pre­mier con­sti­tu­tion­al…

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Social Media and Hate Speech

Rab Nawaz Social media plat­forms, includ­ing Face­book, Twit­ter, YouTube and oth­ers, have become a sig­nif­i­cant part of our indi­vid­ual and…

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Elections 2013: What is at stake?

Rab Nawaz Sev­er­al fac­tors make the 2013 elec­tions his­toric — the first ever trans­fer of pow­er from one civil­ian gov­ern­ment…

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Did Niemöller Know of Pakistan?

Who among us have not come across this famous quo­ta­tion, or some ver­sion of it: “First they came for the…

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Let the Sanity Prevail

Last month when the domes­tic ten­sions were sim­mer­ing because of Qadri’s long march, an unto­ward inci­dent took place on the…

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‘This is the Men’s World, Boys’

The trag­ic sto­ry of ‘The Ston­ing of Soraya’ The sta­tus of women in closed, author­i­tar­i­an soci­eties has not been sub­ject…

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The Challenge of Change for Pakistani Youth

The talk of youth bulge calls for con­sid­er­ing two pos­si­bil­i­ties; whether it is a boon or bane. Gen­er­al­ly speak­ing a…

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‘Don’t Kill the Messenger’

It has been more than three months since the pop­u­lar video shar­ing web­site YouTube has been banned in Pak­istan. One…

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The Flowers of War

It is said that war brings out the best and worst of the people. In fact most of the war…

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طلبہ تحریک کا تاریخی پس منظر

تعلیم ایک بنیادی سماجی ادارہ ہے اور طلباء اس کا بنیادی رکن ہونے کے ناطے سماجی اور سیاسی سطح پرنہایت…

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عدلیہ اور اسلامائیزیشن

فیملی گیٹ سکینڈل نے اعلی عدلیہ میں ایک نئے بحران کو جنم دیا ہے۔ پاکستان کی تاریخ عدالتی بحرانوں سے…

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Editorial

A Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our readers! We are proud to present to you the…