Couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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Dear Barcelona haters, your tears are so sweet
By Ahsan Butt Apr 04, 2012I wonder if there is a five-stages scheme for supporting an awesome, dominant team, similar to the five stages of grief. I can definitely chart my own evolution over the Guardiola years. The first stage is a disbelief seeped in pessimism. You think “yes, nice, a few wins, but there will be more season ending
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Our feudal lord
By Ahsan Butt Mar 25, 2012
Certain stories require no comment or embellishment. This is one of them: ROME: The long standing and once highly publicised case of acid victim Fakhra Younus met its tragic end on March 17 when she jumped to her death in the Italian city of Rome. Her body is due to reach Karachi on Sunday, Express News
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The contingency and construction of national identity
By Ahsan Butt Mar 24, 2012One thing I find fascinating about the literature and scholarship on nationalism and ethnicity is the extent to which it is accepted that such identities are politically and socially constructed. That is to say, without the deliberate efforts of states and state-like entities, national identities would not exist, or perhaps not exist in their current
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On Mohammad Amir’s interview with Sky Sports
By Ahsan Butt Mar 20, 2012
You can watch it here: It was kind of weird watching that. I don’t know, my reactions are sort of all over the place. First of all, many people (including me) have been asking and demanding that Amir apologize to Pakistan and the wider cricketing world. The basic idea being that forgiveness can
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Opinion: Rhetoric has consequences, U.S.-Afghanistan edition
By Ahsan Butt Mar 13, 2012
I recall that when Congresswoman Griffords was shot and almost killed, a number of news outlets in the U.S. (fairly) asked the question of the extent to which Sarah Palin and her rhetoric of “targeting” certain lawmakers mattered. The reasoning was simple: that while one cannot directly “blame” Palin for the assassination attempt, violent and
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The U.S. soldier shooting incident is not an isolated one
By Ahsan Butt Mar 12, 2012
Even amidst the daily humdrum of violence during war, certain incidents simply belong in a category of their own. The details of the U.S. Army Staff Sergeant’s war crime (if this does not qualify, I don’t know what does) really have to be read to be believed: The unnamed soldier, thought to be a staff
