Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2013-01-10 to 2013-01-24). Top authors: Viewpoint
In a January 6 video, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, indicated that it is broadening the jihadi battlefield to include Kashmir and India It is becoming clear that religious and jihadi forces in Pakistan and its neighborhood are taking a leaf out of, prove …
To allow oneself to be lulled to sleep by a reassuring lie, rather than accepting the inconvenient truth, is the greatest disservice one can do to his country. "Hush, little rape victim! Don't holler too much on the media about the injustice done to you, lest …
As the latest drama of rhetoric and revolutionary idiom unfolds, it is imperative that all progressive forces pool in their organisational resources to defend the latest bout of civilian rule against khaaki (and assorted) conspiracies On the afternoon of 15th …
Aside from a prominent religious and political leader of Jamat-e-Islami telling women on live television that they should keep their mouths shut about their rape, conspiracies to keep rape a silent act is to protect patriarchy maintained by partners of power i …
The success of Islamists has been in their ability to not reform but reframe their agendas, particularly on the issue of gender politics. The vocabulary of this reframing is no longer prohibitive but rhetoric is wrapped in a language of a human rights discours …
The Muslim Brotherhood cannot ignore the lessons of Gen. Zia-ul Haque of Pakistan when he transformed a moderate and secular Pakistan to Islamic theocracy under the tutelage of Jamaat-e-Islami,ideological cousin of Muslim Brotherhood A column in The New York T …
A survey conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in 1999, just one year after India declared itself a nuclear weapons state, found that an extraordinary 54% -- over half -- of the Indian electorate had not heard of the …
A television anchor, dripping sarcasm, asked Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar whether he still believed in aman ki aasha to which the acerbic Aiyar retorted, well would you have us believe in jang ki asha?’ The Line of Control for the media on both sides is this …
He is for the Blasphemy Law and against the Blasphemy Law. He is for democracy and for the army. He is for justice and for the judges. He can serve Mammon and serve God. He likes Capital Punishment and likes to live in the Capital Glad tidings to the faithful. …
The wealth of the world For the last 5,000 years, since the Agricultural Revolution first provided substantial accumulations of surplus wealth, humanity has been engaged in an uneven and uncertain ascent towards the abolition of want. The ascent has been drive …
‘drain your blood, drip by drip, we need it, the boss, the Saigols, Manshas, the Sharifs, Zardaris are in need, drip by drip drain it, seth needs a new jeep and the daughter has to go to school in New York and some of this blood has to go the bank’ 1 Outside b …
The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan, was established in 2002 during the Musharraf era. Until 2002, universities were recognized by the University Grants Commission (U.C.G.), which drew its power from the University Grants Commission Act of 1974. In …
The great religions of the world Islam, Christianity and Judaism are today undergoing a radicalisation known as fundamentalism. Nonetheless, the religion that remains most scrutinized is perhaps Islam due to the countless pessimistic portrayals in the western …
Hameed Gul and company are professional fear-mongers. They want to terrify Pakistanis into believing that we are under constant siege and thus create a climate where the right-wing ideology of hate and violence can flourish Edited by physicist and noted intell …
One wonders if our media mujahideen will learn any lessons from Lollywood Last year, on September 21, six cinema houses were set on fire. In fact, our film industry has deservedly earned the puritan wrath. In 1978, Lollywood first began to take up blasphemy as …
In 2009 alone, nuclear weapons programme spending amounted to about $2.2 billion. Imagine the cost if we were to maintain 1,000 bombs! In this age of market dictatorship, superficial bestsellers have trivialised the book world. However, every now and then one …
Somewhere in the early 1980s I walked into the Markazi Urdu Board Library in Seokarno Square, Peshawar. I was there to see the librarian, Maulana Fazle Ma’bood, a family friend, neighbour, and the local emir of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). Between his usual white …
What more can I say about the unconscionable event that took place on the night of December 16 in Delhi that has not already been said or written about over the last fortnight? Every conceivable aspect of the brutal rape and the reactions to it have been repor …
The plant operators said the Fukushima plant was safe. The Soviets also thought the Chernobyl reactor was safe. The Americans thought their Three Mile Island Reactor was safe ‘A total of about 30 countries in the world use nuclear energy (most of them have onl …
For the tax year 2011, Mehar Bukhari did not file any tax return. On the PRAL database, an employer’s statement is available that declares her income worth Rs 8,339,572 but the income from National Communication (Pvt) Ltd [Dunya TV] worth Rs 10,432,447 is not …