Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2013-08-01 to 2013-08-15). Top authors: Viewpoint
Caliph al-Hadi put to death in Baghdad 5,000 philosophers in order to destroy sciences in Muslim countries. Be it the brutal treatment of liberal scholars or an ideological war against rationality waged by people like Ghazali, Islam and the Quran were always a …
Josh is not a memorable film, qualifying for an honorable mention in the book of recent Pakistani movies. Its media hype is strangely strong in Pakistan, but one has to actually watch the movie and compare it to efforts across the border in India before justif …
AZO's struggle indeed was aimed at toppling a brutal and reactionary military dictatorship, but by no means was it being waged for the restoration of democracy. It was analyzing the situation through the eyes of radical Marxism ‘Al-Zulfiqar Organisation’s aims …
It is the not an accident that India and Pakistan, housing 22 percent of the world population, host 44 percent of the world poverty yet they are amongst the top five buyers of military hard ware The killing of five Indian military personnel in firing across th …
Instead of highlighting their problems that force them to take up prostitution, they are insulted, guilt-framed, and harassed in the lust for ratings The television medium thrives on scandals, conspiracy stories, shaming, and so on. Most TV channels will do an …
Just like FEMEN cannot speak for all feminists, MWAF or other veil-endorsing Muslim feminists are not the sole voice of all Muslim women Bearing out a common man's pet peeve, Sigmund Freud had famously confessed that despite spending years in psychological res …
Shilpa Phadke tells Richa Kaul Padte that feminist mothers face the dilemma of giving their daughters agency while teaching them to take calculated risks in negotiating urban spaces. . What sparked your research around feminist mothering, and why did you choos …
The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in poverty by 2011-12 to grossly unrealistic levels of 13.7 per cent of population in urban areas and 25.7 per cent in rural areas, using monthly poverty lines of Rs. 1000 and Rs. …
Ali returned home late evening on 20 October, 2012 after spending 45 days without sunlight. He and his family are convinced that his return was divine miracle rather than the outcome of an ill-afforded ransom put together through borrowings ‘Ali’ was kidnapped …
The commander of the faithful, the rightly guided caliph of the Ummah, Imran Khan, has said that this war is not our war. He also said that Mumtaz Qadri has been misunderstood just as Adolf Hitler was misunderstood before him Felicitations to the Ummah and Ram …
A Muslim is not just 76 kilograms of Islam turned flesh; a one-dimensional being whose every action, from writing a book to doing an interview, can be traced back to an ‘Islamic agenda’. This is the simple concept that eluded Lauren Green, as it escapes most o …
Chomsky answers a familiar question as he has often answered before. The supposed wisdom of Zizek, Lacan, etc. - answers Chomsky, ( http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html ), is typically not wisdom but, inste …
Ban on the ad stems from our society’s deep rooted patriarchal and hegemonic perspective on sex as an act and marriage as an institution. Sex as a topic is discussed either as an act of procreation or a sin When PEMRA, Pakistan’s media watchdog, decided to tak …
Many centers drift between illegality and legality. On the other hand, there are centers that are legal and run by professionals but provide completely unethical therapies Despite set laws and ethical codes of conduct, Pakistan is one of the many developing co …
And since God is a feminist, it shouldn’t be that big a surprise to see all his devout followers being feminists of the same scale as the deity himself Among all the talk of omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience and omnibenevolence of the Almighty, which seem …
Before BB's agreement with notorious IPPs, electricity was mainly generated through hydel power plants and was not as costly. But after these agreements, the share of hydel power started to decline. Between1996 - 2001 it decreased from 47 % to 29 % and with th …
The real indicator of women’s interest in politics is that almost 150 women filed nomination papers for general seats in 2013, a 129 percent jump from the 2008 election Fauzia Kasuri's quitting of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) created quite a stir. Her compla …
The main reason is not of lust but of control, with a misogynist mentality to keep the women in place which stems from the religious misperception that Eve was born out of Adam, hence her sole purpose was to serve men, a common belief to endorse in a patriarch …
I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on …
Feminism is not just a label, it was a movement – it still is a movement. It is not about the women who turn away from it for popularity but about fighting the fight against injustice for the people who do not enjoy the privilege of equality Let’s just be very …