Found 79 articles matching your filters across English (2014-10-16 to 2014-11-20). Top authors: Muhammad Akbar Notezai, Farooq Sulehria, Dominique Lerouge, Freddy Mathieu, Hakim Hazik, Adnan Farooq and Ghulam Haider
On November 3, 2014, Malik Siraj Akbar, a Baloch journalist settled in the USA, critically analysed the Baloch nationalist movement in his piece on Huffington Post blogs . Titled, “The end of Pakistan’s Baloch insurgency?”, this essay deserves attention for br …
The National Security Advisor to Prime Minister, Sartaj Aziz, in an interview with BBC Urdu on November 16 (1), has for the first time, at least implicitly if not categorically, confessed to the policy of ‘Good Taliban, bad Taliban’. While drawing a distinctio …
Despite the disillusionment of a part of the population, particularly among young people and the most disadvantaged layers, participation in the Tunisian parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 was nearly 70% of registered voters. In the elections of Octob …
Jalalatul Mulk, All praise is for Allah who is the creator of the universe and the Islamabad winter; who created the D-Chowk and did not create the public toilets in his infinite wisdom, so that the mushrikeen and apostates do not become arrogant and cast aspe …
Defining culture, in a precise manner, is impossible. I find Leon Trotsky’s definition of culture fairly useful. ‘Culture is all that has been created, built, assimilated and achieved by man throughout the course of his entire history, in contrast with what ha …
In yet another grisly incident, a furious mob beat a Christian couple, Shehzad and Shama, to death and then burnt their bodies in a brick kiln where they labored. The mob was enraged by an alleged desecration of Holy Quran. It all happened in Kasur District, s …
Translator’s Note : On the occasion of Iqbal’s 137 th birth anniversary, I’m presenting an original translation of Manto’s heartfelt tribute to another fellow-Kashmiri rebel, someone who has become as institutionalized in contemporary Pakistan as the latter ha …
Behind every big fortune, there is a big crime. Balzac I found this news story in the daily Express Tribune , very amusing: “Renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Tariq Jamil delivered the Friday sermon and led the prayers at Bahria Town’s Grand Jamia Masjid. This …
Title: Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician Writer: Zafar Anjum Publisher: Random House India, 2014 Extent: 195 pp . In Pakistan, much of the national energies are spent to eulogize the great poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, who is credited wi …
The flower of our Youthias Lau ji, I told you so. The reach of the mullah is up to the mosque. The reach of the Mullah Torontino is up to Mrs. Saga. I think so, he has settled his account with Bajwa Sahib. Naoo, he will relax on Dixie Road and Onionpur Sahib w …
Internet Explorer 6 isn't supported by this website... Home Submissions Archives Redaktion You are here : Home / 2014 / 11 / vp226 Subscribe to this RSS feed vp226 (8) Tuzk e Jahangiri Lau ji, I told you so. The reach of the mullah is up to the mosque. The rea …
Internet Explorer 6 isn't supported by this website... Home Submissions Archives Redaktion You are here : Home / 2014 / 11 / vp227 Subscribe to this RSS feed vp227 (10) Quetta police fail to arrest six-year-old Hazara girl’s killers Seven-year old Hazara girl, …
Internet Explorer 6 isn't supported by this website... Home Submissions Archives Redaktion You are here : Home / 2014 / 11 / vp228 Subscribe to this RSS feed vp228 (8) Qanada Goose Qanada Goose ( Branta Qadriensis) , is a goose with a black head and neck, griz …
“This was a debate on two models: nationalisation or privatisation,” Bolivian President Evo Morales told a large gathering of supporters after being re-elected with a large majority on October 12. “Nationalisation won with more than 60 percent.” As a result of …
When spacecraft Mangalyaan successfully entered the Martian orbit in late September after a 10-month journey, India erupted in joy. Costing more than an F-16 but less than a Rafale, Mangalyaan’s meticulous planning and execution established India as a space-fa …
Well done, Malala! Every Pakistani is proud of you. Today you have made our head high. After Dr. Abdus Salam, Malala is second person who has shown other side of Pakistan and introduced terror-torn Pakistan’s soft face to the world and provided us a moment of …
The Indian Ideology By Perry Anderson Verso , 2013 · 192 pages · $19.95 First published as a series of essays in the London Review of Books , this is a provocative book that deftly cuts through the mythologies of Indian nationalism. The essays and the book hav …
Imam Abu Hanifa came. He came in a Mercedes 450 GL SUV. He wore shiny new Gucci shoes and a snow white Armani cloak, as opposed to the starched khaki of General Bajwa who was his chief of staff and carried his lota and his staff. I kissed his shoes, (General S …
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur “The Tutak mass graves, where over a hundred bodies were buried, were the work of strategic assets”, says Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur. Noted intellectual, columnist and an activist for Baloch national liberation, Muhammad Ali Talpur has spe …
The first meeting of the Naya Cabinet was held today. By happy co-incidence, the national Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi day was also celebrated today, in the length and breadth of the country. MrAhmediNejad, the former president was to be the keynote speaker in the in …