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ONLINE ISSUE NO. 21 OCTOBER 08, 2010 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Letters to the Editor About Contact us Do you support Pakistan army's role in bringing political change? …
F or the past five or six months I’ve been reading fairly regularly the web pages of three Urdu newspapers from Pakistan: Jang , Nawa-i-Waqt and the Express . I glance at the headlines cursorily then immediately turn to the columnists. Most days, each of the t …
Vpered: 1. What parts of the Marxist heritage clearly belong to the past, and which ones do you feel remain equally relevant today? Daniel Bensaïd: I’d like to start by nuancing or differentiating the very idea of heritage. There isn’t one heritage, but many: …
O n September 30, Ecuador descended into chaos as a protest by sections of the police force and army turned into a potentially bloody coup against left-wing President Rafael Correa. At about 8am, sections of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and the national police …
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It has reinforced a dilemma that Pakistani young generation is facing; that is, they have to use three different languages: mother tongue or regional languages at home, Urdu language with friends or may be in market and English language in classroom P akistan …
In a country like ours, where the public takes the Army to be the best run institute despite the corruption a top-ranked officer indulges in, this really should not come as a surprise. Most of the Pakistani cricketers come from a poor background and are a prod …
If the leaching ponds containing the effluents of a milling and leaching plant are not covered in water, the dumped waste can dry up and gets blown all over by winds, as often happens in and near Dera Ghazi Khan Dr. A. H. Nayyar is Director of the Ali Institut …
There is a complete blackout on the effects of uranium mining in Dera Ghazi Khan in south Punjab. Researchers too were defeated by the powerful nuclear establishment that keeps even health information as a national secret S adly, absolutely nothing is known ab …
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Washington is backing an alliance between the government, warlords already in power, Taliban and the arch-criminal Hekmattyar whose true place is at the Hague tribunal. This policy may be the only way to get out of an inextricable war but the fate of the entir …
Over 250,000 textile workers in, Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city, won a complete victory on July 29 after a nine-day strike. Their chief demand was the implementation of a decision to increase wages by 17 percent – one of the tenets of the National L …
In an age of superficial best-sellers, scholarly endeavors often at best end up in libraries and keep gathering dust. Books that instead of conforming to clichés tend to deconstruct myths, do not often appeal editors of newspapers' cultural sections. However, …
If Pastor Martin Niemoller were alive today and living in Pakistan, he would have inserted few alterations in his famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Hitler's rise to power and would still have sounded authentic: THEY CA …
The Sunni-Sunni war reached a peak in 2006 at Nishtar Park, the year the ISI allowed Sipah-e-Sahaba to stage its show of power in Islamabad, senior journalist and Editor Khaled Ahmed responds to some questions by Viewpoint on the post-Data Darbar attack scenar …
In 2009, the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) ranked Pakistan 113 out of 130 countries to visit. Political instability, suicide attacks, the kidnapping of foreigners, and conflict between religious and military forces has …
"During my frequent visits to Pakistan in the 1990s, all kinds of theories were expressed whenever there was an attack on members of the Shia or Sunni community," the German journalist Hans Bremer wrote in The News (Feb 26, 2003). "One that always struck me as …
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means - Sallust All kinds of target killers seem to have landed in this country of pious people. You name them and there they are holding a gun in their hands and ready to take a shot at t …
I met Mustansar Randhawa (32) briefly on 19th June 2010 in Faisalabad, less than a month before his murder. He was one of 30 participants in trade union leadership training at the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) office. The LQM is a community-based labor organizat …
On July 10, in Afghanistan's eastern border province of Paktia, gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Pakistani tribal people who had crossed into Afghanistan to buy supplies. The ambush blamed on Taliban, claimed 14 lives. All the victims belonged to Parac …