Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2012-11-29 to 2013-01-10). Top authors: Viewpoint
'Hai kahan tamanna kaa doosra qadam, Yaarab Hum nay dasht-e-imkaan ko aik naqsh-e-paa paayaa’ "Where is the second footstep of longing, oh Lord? The desert of possibility was but one footstep" Divaan-e Ghalib, ghazal 4, unpublished verse. The abstruseness of M …
Qadri accentuates politics but not economics, form and not the content, effects and not the cause, mythology and not the reality. He talks about the abolition of feudalism but not a word about the overthrow of capitalism Yet another facade of a movement has be …
In the six decades since Pakistan was founded, there have been five uprisings — three minor ones in 1948, 1958-1960, the mid-1960s, a major insurgency between 1973-1977, and a low-level conflict beginning in the early 2000s that festers to this day Over the el …
One fatwa also declared that, “it was a Muslim man’s duty to kidnap the women health workers when they paid home visits, to marry them forcibly even if they were already married women, or to use them as sexual slaves” - maal e ghaniymat – spoils of war Barely …
In this sickening image, one of the most extreme in The Disasters of War series, the naked bodies of mutilated, tortured and castrated men are shown hung from a tree as a warning to others. Goya was one of the first artists to reveal the grim reality of warfar …
One of the mistakes in Afghanistan was to preach liberation to women without enlisting the men as equal partners As the departure of US troops approaches and negotiations with Taliban gain respectability, violence against women has been on the increase in Afgh …
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Redaktion Adnan Farooq Adnan Farooq has worked with daily The Nation, Lahore and daily Jang, Lahore. He has also volunteered for Milieudefensie, Amsterdam. Friends of the earth, Europe, on environmental issues. He has been working with ON FILE, an Amsterdam-ba …
From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion. I don’t know how far back in history to begin, so I’ll lay the milestone down in the recent past. I’ll start in the early 1990s, not long after …
Vaccination has been invented by the infidel Christians and is clearly designed to undermine the House of Islam. It is against nature and the laws of nature. Polio vaccine will sterilise the sons of Islam and will deprive the world of the likes of Yours Truly …
Far from being a product of the development of the productive forces, Zionism is precisely the consequence of the complete halt of this development, the result of the petrifaction of capitalism Note: The bulk of the material on the history of the Jews stems fr …
For these Not-liberal Liberals, all problems for Pakistan started with 9/11 and will inshallah, end with some sexy sounding date to match. 13/13, if an extra month can be added to next year A new breed of patriots, conceived in Pakistan’s drawing rooms, have s …
David Samuels interviews Noam Chomsky You grew up in a home that was heavily influenced by Ahad Ha’am, the father of cultural Zionism. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was …
When he presented his proposals for taming banks in late September, Peer Steinbrück was once again spoiling for a fight. The Social Democratic candidate for the Chancellery in next year's general election railed against the chase for short-term returns and exc …
I'm a French Muslim who is gay, and a feminist. I no longer want people in my country to think that it is an impossible blend, and that these different aspects of my identity are incompatible. Today in France, gay teenagers are almost 15 times more likely than …
Dennis Bernstein: Noted Documentary Filmmaker, John Pilger, is somebody who knows a great deal about the Gaza Strip, and about the extreme conditions Palestinians there have been forced to endure under a Brutal Israeli Occupation. Pilger has actually made two …
Brothers misjudged opposition’s potential to mobilize people. Liberals and leftists have shown that they are almost as popular among people as Brothers and Salafis December last year, I met Ola Shabah in Cairo along with two other activists. Together we visite …
Cowasjee: the last of his kind. Foul mouthed, acerbic, haughty at times. At other times warm, good natured, compassionate and kind. A fearless defender of public spaces, he was Karachi's benefactor Two weeks ago I had my usual Parsi omelette breakfast with Ard …
The Blockade denies the Palestinians in the Gaza strip their basic human rights. The blockade itself is the main reason that Hamas is still in power 'Hamas activists gave hints to my father that I was about to turn into a woman and it was time for me to put on …
It is not surprising then to find some 'modern' Pakistani Muslims coining contradictory catchwords like 'Muslim Feminists' or 'liberal Hijabi' to explain or perhaps justify their preferred social and religious behaviours One cannot help but wonder how come peo …