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Mansoor Raza’s Biography

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A good-humored man with a demeanor of solemn dignity that has a flavor of jovial glee, Mansoor Raza is a concerned environmentalist with a degree in electrical engineering. During the start of his engineering career, he developed an everlasting passion for social sciences and got heavily associated with civil society and NGO-sector. He did not just directly convert to being an environmentalist, but rather while he worked as a senior sales engineer in a local organization, a poisonous, negative …

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On death’s door: trade unions in Pakistan

On death’s door: trade unions in Pakistan

by Mansoor Raza At an estimated 63.34 million workers in total, Pakistan has the 10th largest labour force in…

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The gender paradox: Shattering the glass ceiling while chained to the mirror

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By Mansoor Raza
| Geo News English Verified
Women participate in a rally in Lahore to mark International Women’s Day in 2018. — AFP/File "Don't think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women." — Gloria Steinem The story from Panchatantra, the ancient book of wisdom, goes like this. Deep in a forest, a flock of hungry pigeons led by their wise king, Chitragriva, spotted rice scattered beneath a banyan tree.
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SOUNDSCAPES OF MUHARRAM

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By Mansoor Raza
| Dawn Verified
A graphical interpretation of Izzat Lakhnavi reciting nohas alongside his group: Lakhnavi’s recitation of ‘Ab aaye ho baba’ remains his magnum opus [Advance with utmost reverence and decorum, For this is the procession of the Martyr of Karbala.
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THE IMAMBARGAHS THAT SHAPED KARACHI'S SOUL

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By Mansoor Raza, Tahir Jamal
| Dawn Verified
“In the dead of a Karachi night, a shivering mourner, Afsar Hussain Rizvi, stood at my door, pressing 125 rupees into my hand for the masjid and Imambargah Darbar-i-Husaini, Husainabad, Malir [1954]. When I questioned his urgency, his voice, raw with desperation, pierced the silence: ‘I have no food in my house, and I needed to deposit this money now.
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