Found 300 articles matching your filters across English (2012-11-29 to 2012-12-31). Top authors: Duriya Hashmi, Hassan N. Gardezi, Mariam Goraya, Ammar Aziz, Dr. Qaisar Abbas
An array of traditional and popular advertising across the country enchants the male customers to buy elixirs for impotency, but aborting an unwanted pregnancy is a hush-hush matter. The Urdu word for ‘menopause’ i.e. san e yas which means ‘age of despair’ den …
Yet, whatever the terms used for Pakistan’s cultural pluralism and disparities of political power and economic privilege, Feroz remained steadfast in his conviction that all culturally and linguistically distinct entities of Pakistan must have equal rights and …
If you can summarize the governing style of PPP in one word, its 'brinkmanship'! Those of the ruling party, who know what it means, practice it very well while the rest would like to sulk in their glorious past Dude I told you to be at Benazir Chowk did you re …
In the phallic culture we live in, there’s an ancient desire of an ‘ideal woman’, a woman who is so ‘perfect’ in fulfilling man’s sexual needs. Thus the whole existence of women has been confined to their sexual role. Bras serve as a tool to represent that des …
American Muslims are questioning why they are increasingly becoming the target of hate and discrimination when majority of the 9/11 attackers came from abroad T he post-9/11 America has brought a mixed bag of curse and blessing for American Muslims during the …
Vaccination has been invented by the infidel Christians and is clearly designed to undermine the House of Islam. It is against nature and the laws of nature. Polio vaccine will sterilise the sons of Islam and will deprive the world of the likes of Yours Truly …
Pakistan lost half its navy, a quarter of its air force and a third of its army. Pakistan suffered most, with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded while India lost 3,000 lives and 12,000 wounded.14000 square kilometers of land was captured by the Indian army on the …
Far from being a product of the development of the productive forces, Zionism is precisely the consequence of the complete halt of this development, the result of the petrifaction of capitalism Note: The bulk of the material on the history of the Jews stems fr …
For these Not-liberal Liberals, all problems for Pakistan started with 9/11 and will inshallah, end with some sexy sounding date to match. 13/13, if an extra month can be added to next year A new breed of patriots, conceived in Pakistan’s drawing rooms, have s …
Ayub Khan deliberately sought to court the Tablighis to counteract the influence of the Jama’at-i Islami. Maulana Kandhwalvi, penned a tract bearing the revealing title of ‘ Finta-i Maududiyat’. In Israel the TJ has been allowed to freely function. Shiv Sena a …
Let us take up the army first. Do we impute an independent class character to it? Army personnel are derived from all classes of the society though predominantly from a feudal/peasant base yet recruitment from urban bourgeoisie, bureaucrats classes especially …
David Samuels interviews Noam Chomsky You grew up in a home that was heavily influenced by Ahad Ha’am, the father of cultural Zionism. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was …
When he presented his proposals for taming banks in late September, Peer Steinbrück was once again spoiling for a fight. The Social Democratic candidate for the Chancellery in next year's general election railed against the chase for short-term returns and exc …
I'm a French Muslim who is gay, and a feminist. I no longer want people in my country to think that it is an impossible blend, and that these different aspects of my identity are incompatible. Today in France, gay teenagers are almost 15 times more likely than …
Dennis Bernstein: Noted Documentary Filmmaker, John Pilger, is somebody who knows a great deal about the Gaza Strip, and about the extreme conditions Palestinians there have been forced to endure under a Brutal Israeli Occupation. Pilger has actually made two …
Sotoodeh, a brave human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist, was arrested on September 4. She has been on hunger strike since Oct. 31 Following is an online petition for the release of Nasrin Sotoodeh: In the face of increasing pressures the maneuvering …
Brothers misjudged opposition’s potential to mobilize people. Liberals and leftists have shown that they are almost as popular among people as Brothers and Salafis December last year, I met Ola Shabah in Cairo along with two other activists. Together we visite …
You can curb freedom of expression; you can never control freedom to think freely! Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information in all matters of public importance subject to regulation and reasonable restrictions imposed by law. Constituti …
Cowasjee: the last of his kind. Foul mouthed, acerbic, haughty at times. At other times warm, good natured, compassionate and kind. A fearless defender of public spaces, he was Karachi's benefactor Two weeks ago I had my usual Parsi omelette breakfast with Ard …
The Blockade denies the Palestinians in the Gaza strip their basic human rights. The blockade itself is the main reason that Hamas is still in power 'Hamas activists gave hints to my father that I was about to turn into a woman and it was time for me to put on …
