Found 31 articles matching your filters across English (2011-12-28 to 2014-11-20). Top authors: Farooq Sulehria
The National Security Advisor to Prime Minister, Sartaj Aziz, in an interview with BBC Urdu on November 16 (1), has for the first time, at least implicitly if not categorically, confessed to the policy of ‘Good Taliban, bad Taliban’. While drawing a distinctio …
Defining culture, in a precise manner, is impossible. I find Leon Trotsky’s definition of culture fairly useful. ‘Culture is all that has been created, built, assimilated and achieved by man throughout the course of his entire history, in contrast with what ha …
Behind every big fortune, there is a big crime. Balzac I found this news story in the daily Express Tribune , very amusing: “Renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Tariq Jamil delivered the Friday sermon and led the prayers at Bahria Town’s Grand Jamia Masjid. This …
For the first time in several decades, Sweden is witnessing a political crisis generated by shock-vote for neo-fascist Swedish Democrats, now the third-largest party in the newly-elected Riksdag (Parliament). Sweden went to elections on September 14 to elect a …
As I pen these lines on July 20, news of demonstrations for Palestine solidarity is pouring in from across the world. As has been the case for several years, the largest mobilizations have not been reported from either the idiomatic Muslim World or the Arab wo …
Over the last the three years the Pakistan military has accused the Afghan army of shelling into Pakistan while the Afghan government protested against attacks by Pakistan’s border forces. It is hard to verify these claims. However, it is certain that Pak-Afgh …
A sample of anti-Hamid Mir Facebook post In no uncertain terms Viewpoint condemns the despicable attempt to claim Hamid Mir’s life on April 21 in Karachi. Regardless of Hamid Mir’s personal role in the promotion of violent ideologies and hate mongering, we at …
A report for the FY2008-09, shows almost a total dependence of Pakistani TV networks upon multinationals for advertising revenue. Among the top ten advertisers, the only Pakistani concern, ranking second, was the PTCL Is it the case that globalization has not …
It was indeed ironic that Islamabad, crying hoarse ever since 1947 for the Kashmiris’ right to self determination, denied Kashmir under its control even the right to elect its Legislative Assembly until 1970 and snatched even this symbolic right in 1977 On Jun …
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, have been key protagonists in the counter-revolutionary wave unleashed against the uprisings. Indeed, 2011 has clearly demonstrated that imperialism in the region is articulated with – and largely works through – the …
Taseer’s assassin is a Barelvi Muslim belonging to the Dawat-e-Islami, and 500 clerics of this faith supported his action. Most of these mullahs are part of the Sunni Tehreek and are supposedly anti-Taliban moderates. Those who claim that Pakistan’s silent maj …
Anyone incensed by symbolic violence, such as the video in the US or cartoons in France, should retaliate with symbolic violence in the same way or with peaceful protest. Not through physical violence Muslims should ‘simply ignore the crazy provocations,’ Gilb …
If the actions of rulers cause droughts and floods, I wonder how you would explain the six-year-long drought suffered by Kabul when the Taliban were in power? Dear Maulana, I heard you talking to Junaid Jamshed during ‘Hayya al Falah’ aired by Geo TV (Aug 19). …
Elements of Pakistani media are literally embedded with the jihadists for their Afghan and Kashmir ventures and have underreported or misreported the Shia genocide issue. In fact, those killed are never identified as Shia ‘The Pakistani anchors have done hundr …
Gandhi did not seek high office and Ambedkar stood no chance given the stark realities of the Hindu social system. If a dynasty were to be founded in India it had to be a Nehru dynasty. Elsewhere, either assassinations or judicial murder - Sri Lanka (1959) Ban …
During WW1 Gandhi took upon himself to play the recruiting agent to enlist Indians for British army. He could one day call himself ‘an anarchist’ while next day could visit Italy on Mussolini’s invitation and attended Balilla’s demonstration When Burmese leade …
While you and your protégés at the ISI headquarters have been dispatching battalions after battalions of suicide bombers, India has infiltrated Afghanistan by building hospitals, roads, transport and education systems. India has contributed $1 billion to the r …
Leaders like General Musharraf, patronized the Taliban as many did before him (Benazir Bhutto for one) without bothering to analyse the consequences it would have for secular thought and the nation “Secularism is not about lifestyle, it is about ideology and t …
There is far too much respect for institutions like the BBC shown by media producers from the South. The corporate media were instrumental in the attempted coup to overthrow President Chavez “The media are a site of political, economic and cultural power – Mar …
The birth of Bangladesh not merely shattered the Ideology-of-Pakistan myth, it also exploded the notion of Imagined Community. A community cannot be imagined out in the absence of essential commonalities: race, colour, geography, history, language, and religio …