Found 12 articles matching your filters across English (2010-09-21 to 2013-07-20). Top authors: Riaz ul Hassan
Tagore told an audience that he cannot compare himself with Iqbal because he does not write in his native tongue. Iqbal issued a rebuttal that Tagore could write in Bengali because Bengali was a developed language Nazar-ul-Islam, the Muslim Bengali poet enjoye …
It was Awami National Party, led by Wali Khan, that declared Urdu as an official language in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Even the Punjab has never formally made such a move ‘It is absolutely baseless assertion that national unity is harmed by language …
Pakistani media’s financial shortfall is compensated either by mysterious sources or the electronic-media bubble is heading for a big burst I t takes Rs. 40 million per month, for a privately-run, news channel in Pakistan. Apparently, advertising is the only s …
Although general public got permission to run private channels in 2001, the eagles of PAF's Shaheen Foundation were already soaring above the law with their radio channels, pay-TV system and later Shaheen TV running as early as 1996 A bout ten years ago when t …
Since the economic liberalization of the early 90’s, Indian electronic media scene has changed from a state-monopolized single channel to market-oriented multichannel web. In last 20 years it has developed, as some would like to put, by leaps and bounds but ac …
Between 1966 and 1976 Africa experienced 109 coup attempts of where 51 were successful and 58 were unsuccessful The term neocolonialism is not very fashionable in this age of globalization even if it remains very valid. Attributed to the first postcolonial pre …
A nightmarish experience of my life was to draw a cartoon on (in)famous Lal Mosque operation in 2007 Sabir Nazar’s cartoons for the Viewpoint [online] ever since its launching on May 22, two years ago, have been winning a lot of appreciation from Viewpoint rea …
In 2001, Jamaat contested the election as a BNP-ally while its Ameer and general secretary became Khalida Zia’s cabinet ministers. At country’s 30th birthday Jamaat was ruling, at least partly, the country it had bitterly resisted at the time of its birth. It …
Myths gradually have lost their appeal in those societies where intellectuals produced new ideas, thoughts, and concepts to guide people. Myths flourish in those societies which are stagnant and rely on the out dated ideas. Therefore, in absence of new ideas, …
His comrade, Pardo Llada considered the trip useless. He describes a long conversation over dinner with Nehru at the former residence of the imperial viceroys, during which Che tried to coax Nehru to express a substantive opinion about any of the topics of the …
So-called fine line between ads and news is diminishing quickly, social and serious content is generously replaced by celebrity gossips, sexually attractive pictures and colorful stories. Economic and commercial compulsions of free market have pushed media to …
There was a time when state-run TV channel used to brainwash masses in service of a dictator ‘flying the Islamic flag’. Nowadays private TV channels are filling that space by indoctrinating public minds through their interactive and colorful religious shows H …
