Found 31 articles matching your filters across English (2010-10-04 to 2011-12-05). Top authors: Farooq Sulehria
Even if Imran Khan’s corruption-free utopia comes into being, it will not end capitalist and feudal exploitation The clean-shaven Amir of what the Beyghairat Brigade calls “Beautiful Jamaat-e-Islami” has begun to draw even more attention in the mainstream medi …
While Jamaat was at the helm in Peshawar, NATO supplies were safely travelling from Karachi to Torkham and beyond The Jamaat-e-Islami was a brainchild of Maulana Maudodi (1903-1979). His views bear an extraordinary resemblance to the ideas of seventeenth centu …
Zbigniew Brzezinski: ‘What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?’ The Taliban are an American hand-fed group , w …
While Ilam Din is embracing death, Jinnah is addressing a rally in Lahore, telling people, “As long as Muslims do not create a separate country, Raj Pals will be born over and over again”. In 2002, Gujar Art Production produced a remake of Haider’s film, Ilam …
‘Was USSR imperialist? Well, imperialism has to do with capitalism, capitalist accumulation, transfer of wealth from other countries to the imperial centre, extraction of surplus value from the labouring masses of the imperialised countries, the enrichment of …
Lavishly betrayed by Bhutto, it was the dervish poets and workers resisting Zia dictatorship. The corrupt feudal lords Bhutto held very dear, were now members of Majlis-e-Shura Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was keen to recruit Habib Jalib for his newly-formed Paki …
As the Bombay tragedy was unfolding on TV screens, Pakistani anchorpersons were busy concocting unimaginable cock and bull stories. Most fantastic theory was weaved by a celebrity anchorperson who claimed Ajmal Kasab was neither a Pakistani nor a Muslim but a …
Nobody can think faster than a speeding bullet! Not even Imran Khan, Hameed Gul, Farid Paracha, Ehsan Iqbal, Ansar Abassi et al who grace one talk show or another every evening. Hence, “they think in clichés, conventional, common ideas that are received genera …
Al-Nahda, the largest Islamist party was mentioned over and over again. But Al-Nahda is not the only player. Hizb ul Tehrir is also vying for the religious constituency Amid music, poetry and passionate discussions, Fourth International reorganizes itself as L …
Where is the proof that Gaddafi was about to slaughter civilians? -- Bedouin hyperbole is no proof. As Diana Johnstone has asked, why was no United Nations fact-finding mission sent to Libya to establish the truth before Sarkozy recognised a group led by Gadda …
The anti-imperialism currently on display in the Muslim world is symbol rather than substance, signifying a new phase in the relations between two estranged lovers, fundamentalism and imperialism. The anti-imperialism of religious forces thus actually serves i …