Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2014-11-06 to 2015-01-30). Top authors: Hakim Hazik, Viewpoint Monitoring, François Sabado, Pierre Rousset, Dick Nichols, Ravi Sinha
Asiya Bibi committed blasphemy. She planned her outrage in a calculated and cold blooded manner. She wanted to drink from the same water tap as the pious and devoted Muslim women, thus polluting the source of water. This can only be cleansed and made fit for t …
Over 8000 Workers from the All Pakistan Hydroeletric Workers Union staged a sit-in and rally in Islamabad on January 28 to protest the ongoing privatization of the energy sector in Pakistan. Workers from all the four provinces and regions of the country attend …
“So you no longer want to hear about classes and their struggles? You’ll get the plebs and disjointed multitudes. You no longer want peoples? You’ll get packs and tribes. You no longer want parties? You’ll get the despotism of public opinion!” Daniel Bensaïd ( …
SYRIZA: 149 seats, 36.5%; New Democracy: 76 seats, 27.8%; Golden Dawn: 17 seats, 6.3%; To Potami: 17 seats, 6.1%; KKE: 15 seats, 5.5%; Independent Greeks (ANEL): 13 seats, 4.7%; PASOK: 13 seats, 4.7%; others not elected: 8.6%. The victory of SYRIZA, Greece’s C …
Far away from Peshawar five men and a woman sat in a physician’s waiting room in Lucknow. The television screen that ordinarily shows some Bollywood film or a cricket match had a news channel on. It was day after the slaughter of children. The assistant who ma …
One year ago, today, Kobanî declared itself as an autonomous canton. Today [January 27], after 135 days of fearless resistance, the people of Kobanî have liberated the city from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). Since September 2014, the YPG and YPJ (People' …
It looks the long agitation that began from Lahore on August 14 last year has finally ended in Islamabad with a happy ending for its leader Imran Khan who recently got married and not-so-happy outcome for the other leader Tahirul Qadri who left the country to …
Your Extreme Majesty, The Servitor of the Harmain Sharifain, please accept salutations from the Brothers Sharifain. May the sun of Allah’s munificence always shine on Ras Tannura, may His abominations be funneled onto the American shale. May the sword of the S …
The brutal assassination of 146 children in Peshawar on 16 th December 2014, the attacks on the French newspaper on 7 th January killing 11 people and injuring 10 and the flogging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has again generated a hard debate about moderate Is …
نظم: تمھیں ٹھیس پہونچتی ہے * تمھیں ٹھیس پہنچتی ہے - سکرات کی شوخ بیانی سے، یا شاید ، منصور کے نعرہ روحانی سے کوپرنیکس کی تلاش رموز آسمانی سے ، اور سرمد کی عریانی سے، لیکن یہ تو بیتے لمحوں کی باتیں ہیں، تمھیں اب ٹھیس پہونچتی ہے کسی بیوہ کی مسکراہٹ سے کسی راہ چل …
On the morning of 6th of September, 1929, a man stood waiting outside the shop of Mahashay Rajpal, who hadn't arrived yet. As soon as Rajpal arrived, the man, Ilumuddin took out a dagger and stabbed Mahashay Rajpal. The reason: Rajpal was the publisher of a bo …
Internet Explorer 6 isn't supported by this website... Home Submissions Archives Redaktion You are here : Home / 2015 / 01 / vp235 Subscribe to this RSS feed vp235 (8) The Sack of Jati Umra:Letter to Brother Abdullah May the sun of Allah’s munificence always s …
Internet Explorer 6 isn't supported by this website... Home Submissions Archives Redaktion You are here : Home / 2015 / 01 / vp236 Subscribe to this RSS feed vp236 (7) Portugal Beckons Asiya Bibi committed blasphemy. She planned her outrage in a calculated and …
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 …
