Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2013-01-24 to 2013-02-28). Top authors: Viewpoint
Coca Cola sponsoring Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) or Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy receiving award from World Economic Forum may also be astonishing developments, but Abida Parveen becoming part of political ad is more shocking In my view, power of mainstream (co …
Bugti's killing provided real fuel to the movement and as the uprising took root, the military's excesses increased disproportionately. Moreover, the military establishment, then a close ally in America's WoT, not only legitimised its excesses through painting …
The big question isn‘t whether the regime will fall, but how soon. It’s in the best interests of the future of Syria that the regime falls very soon ‘I think it’s hard to imagine Israel launching an attack on a target like Iran without a clear green light from …
It all started when an old shaheen named Gen Uftad-ul-naHaque realizing that there were a lot of potential shaheens in his country who could save the nation form the ongoing crisis of sheer lack of interest shown by jawans in the procces of building the Islami …
Today philosophy has to fulfill its duty by smashing modern idols and religions which controls our life by donning them in modern garbs, but religiously following their ideological agenda by riding the roughshod over “Others’ who do not toe the line of their r …
However, it is simplistic to attribute violence to a creed. The root cause of nearly all violent acts can be traced to economic factors. Religion provides a vehicle, legitimacy, or at best rationale to aggression Violence in the current day and age is regarded …
Women are portrayed as a ‘prize’, a ‘reward’ as if they have no feelings of their own. Like a trophy sitting in a cabinet that can be handed over to the winner; a trophy that has no feelings, desires, aspirations of its own. But again, to be ‘that trophy’ a wo …
‘So long as the three great problems of the century – the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of women through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light – are unsolved…books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of us …
Prof. Saba Dashtiari is one of the few Balochi fiction writers who has penned short stories depicting the plight of women living in the tribal areas of Balochistan Tribal hierarchy has often been attributed to as the major factor contributing to the maladies o …
The presence of the ghost schools is also another display of sheer state apathy and its weak control over the schools. The government has identified 25,000 ghost schools Corruption of education is not much of a financial burden as it is more a matter of academ …
Pakistan was one of the few Muslim countries to back the United Nations Development of Human Rights (UDHR) on the issue of Article 18, which was concerned with the freedom to change one’s religion. Headed by Sir Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan ardently supported the …
Hope for them lies in the constitutional change and culturally located critiques such as Bol. Only through these, and not US cultural imperialism, shall they be able to be reintegrated into a social fabric they were so brutally de-rooted from by the last imper …
The ‘nationalisation’ under Bhutto was in fact bureaucratisation of the industries. Bhutto’s nationalization did not imply either workers’ management and control or collective ownership There has been an aggressive campaign in the international as well as loca …
Dear Najam Sethi As some other pro-establishment Journalists and anchors in Pakistan, you also believe that the proxy Taliban represent Pashtuns in Afghanistan and by extension are their (Pashtuns’) political and ideological representatives. The problem with t …
In a letter to Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi in 1939 when he was 27 years old, he wrote: "Whatever happens, I can find no satisfaction. I am not satisfied with anything. I am not even satisfied with myself. I feel as if who I am, what is inside me, it should not be so. I …
Men who call themselves feminists or stand for women rights are usually labeled as sissy, effeminate and gays by other men. These anti-feminist men are unconsciously suffering from castration anxiety W e live in a nation which mourns the birth of girls. Gender …
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Today the struggle against state oppression is being ripped apart by religious sectarianism and other prejudices. The strategists of the state aggravate such conflicts to break the resistance The grotesque, remorseless and relentless slaughter of the Shiite Ha …
The total number of Shia killed as per independent estimates is over 21,000 which includes several thousand children and professionals For decades Shia Muslims have been killed in Pakistan and the issue has either been pushed under the carpet or obfuscated usi …
The Income Tax authorities have also investigated the cases of Asif Raza Mir, Saveera Nadeem, Nouman Ejaz, Nadia Hussain, Mehroz Krim Rind, Humayoon Saeed, Tayyaba Ali, and Umera Ahmed Mubashar Luqman [CNIC: 35201-5652105-9. National Tax No: 1761653-7] is a no …