Found 140 articles matching your filters across English, Cartoons (2011-12-03 to 2011-12-31). Top authors: Viewpoint, Raza Rumi, Waseem Altaf, Farooq Sulehria, Rajab Ali Memon
Viewpoint is a non-profit venture organised on a voluntary basis. It is an activist alternative to the corporate-mainstream media. Viewpoint is an outlet for voices hushed up or ignored in the corporate media due to business interests or anti-working class ide …
Despite the threats and risks, the Internet has provided a useful platform for people-to-people contacts. It has also facilitated issue-based engagement among South Asians and is likely to generate a more realistic understanding of the bitter rivals that are I …
And if everything was already there in the sacred text why so much money and effort is being spent on research? Is it not cost effective to assemble a group of religious scholars who would sift out scientific knowledge out of the holy text? Science is a body o …
The birth of Bangladesh not merely shattered the Ideology-of-Pakistan myth, it also exploded the notion of Imagined Community. A community cannot be imagined out in the absence of essential commonalities: race, colour, geography, history, language, and religio …
After 60 years of independence Pakistan is still searching for an appropriate balance of power between its four provinces and an equitable political structure in the country. Somehow the nation is still looking for a fair relationship between provinces and the …
(Faiz Sahib’s editorial of the Pakistan Times dated August 15, 1947. The original title was: August 15) It is August 15 today. The dawn that brought this day into the world also restored to our people their long-lost freedom. Through many bleak decades of poli …
At this juncture, I must pay tribute to Mr Mansoor Ijaz whose selfless devotion to international statecraft is unsurpassed in the modern history and matched only by the likes of Metternich, Kissinger and Raymond Davis To, President Asif Ali Zardari President o …
One would be greatly amiss, not to pay tribute to the doyen and the veritable patron saint of the Dajjal industry, Dr. Shahid Makhboot Dear Readers, Today we will show you how to catch Dajjal in five easy and practical steps. Catching dajjal has recently becom …
Toni Usman used Manto’s letters as inspiration and Manto’s grave as symbol to stage a strong and communicative expression Toni Usman is an intelligent and extremely gifted artist who has worked as stage and TV artist in Norway for the last two decades. He has …
Newspapers like Ausaf were generally suspicious of India’s intentions and took a pro-military line. The following extract from Ausaf is particularly revealing in this regard: “We will call upon Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, President Zardari, ISI Ch …
Dear friends and comrades, The National Students Federation formally came alive after a period of more than two decades on 25 th -26 th November in Faisalabad, upon successfully concluding its two-day NSF Punjab Convention (the first NSF convention to be held …
The lifting of ban on Bollywood films has actually encouraged competition and revived cinema in Pakistan ‘’Intolerance of the kiss is an extreme example of the dichotomy and hypocrisy with which we have set some mores and rules. Degrading, brutalizing scenes o …
Faiz disagreed with Rashed’ life philosophy but respected him as a poet and a friend. Rashed and Faiz studied at Lahore’s famed Government College together Nazar Mohammad (NM) Rashed (1910-1975) is sometimes called a ‘poet’s poet’. This is, on occasion, a back …
In May 1948, Pakistan People’s Party was founded in Karachi. Ghaffar Khan was elected president and G. M. Sayyid, general secretary. Its objectives included stabilization and security of Pakistan as a union of Socialist republics The first non-communal opposit …
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the marketplace all that seemed fixed and frozen since the revolution in 1949, but -- as with all other forms of capitalism -- this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of aut …
In September 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India organized an exhibition on the Quran at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. It highlighted the teachings of the Quran under a wide range of headings: Justice; Suffering; Death; Science; Peace; Wome …
While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the "Arab Spring" over and advising the rebellious masses to go back home, recent days have made it abundantly clear that the revolutionary process which was sparked in Tunisia late …
Even if Imran Khan’s corruption-free utopia comes into being, it will not end capitalist and feudal exploitation The clean-shaven Amir of what the Beyghairat Brigade calls “Beautiful Jamaat-e-Islami” has begun to draw even more attention in the mainstream medi …
Names such as Bhagat Singh, Mangal Panday, Rani Lakshmibai etc. are never even remotely mentioned in Pakistani course books, why? Thiers and contributions of other unsung (at least in Pakistan) heroes are immense I love the fact that the entire Islamic nation, …
