Found 18 articles matching your filters across English (2010-08-31 to 2013-08-24). Top authors: Adnan Farooq
Immigrants are perceived as not being loyal to the country and the system . This situation leads to collective frustration for majority society who is paying taxes for the facilities enjoyed by immigrants Renowned historian of religions, Anne-Sofie Roald is a …
Raheem Ullah Yousafzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman Shami, Haroon Ur Raheed (columnist), Talat Hussain, Zahid Hussain (Wall Street Journal), Ijaz Haider, Moeed Peerzada, Qatreena Hussain, Mehar Bokhari, Sana Bucha, Hamid Mir, Javed Ch., Saleem Safi, Arshad Sarif, Kashif …
There is a Punjabi word, now creeping into Pakistani Urdu as well – hudharam . It is reserved for the toiling workers both in rural and urban areas and invoked to keep them in line ‘The rag to riches phenomenon is not a common or normal occurrence. The very fa …
Reporters without Borders’ report gives indication that countries with controlled feudal structure, monarchy or dictatorship have worst environment for journalists. Findings of this report suit best to describe the hostile environs for Pakistani journalists in …
" Comrades, I am glad to tell you that Comrade Che Guevara was in Karachi yesterday. He was travelling on an Arab country's passport and came here as an Arab guest of mine. He sat on the sofa you are now sitting on. He went on a short 'sight-seeing' visit to C …
Only weeks ago, after Salman Taseer was gunned down by his own bodyguard, Mr Mir was telling a posh audience at London School of Economics: ‘Pakistan is no more a most dangerous place in the world because terrorist incidents and suicide attacks are on decrease …
Did anybody see Minhaj Barna receiving any award? Did you see Mazhar Ali Khan or Nisar Usmani receiving any benefit? But tell me: was Mazhar Ali Khan not a celebrity of his own kind? These days the concept of celebrity is different: actors and comedians are me …
There needs to be a no-holds barred policy towards these extremists. It needs to pour out from every facet of our society. But when our judiciary and (many) political parties buckle under pressure from time to time, what message will that give to mere anchors …
Freemasonry of zealots cries hoarse if ever the state announces subsidy to bail out a public sector institution such as the Pakistan Railways. Stays silent on Rs 300m bribe to media barons as 200 journalists fired! The Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, issue …
Fazal Hadi, was arrested by a raiding team at his ancestral area Asbarn when he returned from Sindh province, where he had been hiding since 2009…The FIR of the occurrence was registered at Charbagh police station on Nov 30, 2010, nearly two years after the in …
It was right to support the lawyers’ movement. However, I among others who took part in that movement feel uneasy at the over-hyper activity of the Supreme Court ‘I am sorely disappointed both with Nawaz Sharif himself going to court, and by the walk-out of th …
In 1988, when democracy was restored in the country, ironically remnants of the Zia dictatorship began to demand due coverage for the opposition on state-controlled electronic media: the Pakistan Television (PTV) and radio Pakistan. A National Assembly member …
When met for its 13 th meeting last March, the committee was of the view that the Section 12 of the Lahore Arts Council Ordinance 2002 did not allow the purchase of such a car. At its 18 th meeting, the committee silently approved the request Columnist, writer …
The women belonging to the left in Pakistan did try to evaluate Iqbal with a feminist perspective, but, of course, were deeply disappointed. To Iqbal the ummah’s gender was male ‘Iqbal’s Shaheen is a Muslim adoption, rather mutation of Nietzsche’s atheistic Su …
" Comrades, I am glad to tell you that Comrade Che Guevara was in Karachi yesterday. He was travelling on an Arab country's passport and came here as an Arab guest of mine. He sat on the sofa you are now sitting on. He went on a short 'sight-seeing' visit to C …
The history of Pakistan’s journalism is witness to the harsh reality that the concept of Lifafa journalism was introduced by the head of one of the leading political parties of Pakistan, who is teaching morality and high values to his peers for the last two de …
‘Can one expect a bunch of journalists to get together, pool their resources, collect funds from sympathetic individuals, and launch a newspaper or magazine (as most of the monthly Herald's journalists did back in the '80s, when they launched Newsline)? It's n …
Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. There is not a single young scholar who is not on the military's payroll or network. Shahbaz Sharif used to instruct the police to facilitate Hamid Gul's Varan bus servi …