Ayaz Amir
The gathering rage of the virtue brigades by Ayaz Amir
23 July, 2010
Islamabad diary Friday, July 23, 2010 Ayaz Amir Brigades is just a metaphor. What we have now is a veritable army of the enraged middle classes inveighing day in and day out against the evil of the times in which they live and hoping somehow for a miracle to stop what in their minds is [...]
Rural drama: a touch of blackmail by Ayaz Amir
9 July, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, July 09, 2010 Ayaz Amir Tuesday evening this week, while contemplating the stars and revolving a glass in my hand, my cell phone buzzed with an incoming message (from cell number 03065006674). With its spelling marvels intact, this is what it said: “After long thinking we decided not to giv yur recording [...]
The mote in our eyes, the wool in our ears by Ayaz Amir
2 July, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, July 02, 2010 Ayaz Amir “Good government is not to be had for the asking. It took Europe centuries to get it, so why should Africa (or us for that matter… my words) do so in mere decades…?” Landes: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Pakistan’s foremost challenges are two: riding out [...]
The blasphemy around us by Ayaz Amir
4 June, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, June 04, 2010 Ayaz Amir If Islam stands for anything, it is for a just society, free from want and oppression. There is, thus, in Islam no blasphemy greater than a child dying of hunger, a child begging for bread, a woman drowning herself and her children, as has frequently happened in [...]
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