Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2013-04-18 to 2013-05-13). Top authors: Farooq Sulehria, Viewpoint, A.H . Nayyer, Riaz ul Hassan, Viewpoint Monitoring
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, have been key protagonists in the counter-revolutionary wave unleashed against the uprisings. Indeed, 2011 has clearly demonstrated that imperialism in the region is articulated with – and largely works through – the …
Over the past week, at least seven people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Egypt. Violence erupted last Friday in the town of Al-Khosous, north of the capital, Cairo, when five Copts (Egypt’s minority Christians) and one Muslim were killed. Violence co …
Sabir Nazar has been working with Lahore-based weekly The Friday Times since 1991 and with Pakistan Today. Sabir Nazar did his Masters in painting from Lahore's famous National College of Arts. He paints in watercolors. He combines symbols and myths from South …
“Can you imagine the psychology of my soldiers when they stand here all day, knowing that one of these cars could be a suicide bomber?” The Syrian army colonel eyed the two long lines of cars trailing past the Assad library, each pulling to a gentle, slightly …
In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses diale …
Issue 527 th carries a vitriolic against cartoons. Titled ‘cartoons ka zeher’[The cartoon poison], this story narrates the case of school teacher horrified at her students passion for Indian and English cartoons. There is no attempt to deconstruct the content. …
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and all its legal and social systems flow from that basic standpoint. Here crops a fundamental question: what is Islamic about Monarchy? Monarchy is monarchy The title of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s beautiful poem ‘Mozoo-e-sukhan’, literally t …
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is now forty years old. It is rated among the worst functioning reactors of the world. Situated on the Arabian Sea, it was originally far away from populated areas of Karachi, but now many residential schemes have moved clo …
Since the economic liberalization of the early 90’s, Indian electronic media scene has changed from a state-monopolized single channel to market-oriented multichannel web. In last 20 years it has developed, as some would like to put, by leaps and bounds but ac …
"I know, I'm not as tall as you'd like," Sharif explained. "I'm not as fit as you'd like. I'm fat, and I'm old. But I would still like to be your friend." Below are excerpts from "The Taliban Shuffle" by Kim Barker. The book has been recently published by Doub …
He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf, and he wanted to hire a maid. She was a single mom from Mindanao in the Philippines who saw, like so many others, employment in Saudi Arabia as a rout …
The Pakistani state has done little to protect the Hazaras. As I said, some institutions of the state are involved in supporting the organizations that carry out these attacks. There are individuals within the police and FC, for example, who still have sympath …
“Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice” means that pornography causes rape and other violence against women. That's why I can get closer to this approach. Radical feminists believe that violent pornography is more than symbolic, since there are real …
He subscribed to the Western form of democracy and endorsed voting rights of individuals while opposing women’s emancipation. Validating the Soviet wave of Marxism and supporting the 1917 Russian revolution he profoundly believed that religion and politics are …
The fourteen years of Chavista government have seen important advances in the standard of living of the people made possible by exceptional prices per barrel of oil. On the other hand these advances are insufficient The presidential elections in Venezuela will …
Can human beings come up with a model of survival that does not depend on constantly wiping out all other species? When grandpa once told me that human beings evolved out of our ancestors that sounded like a sensible hypothesis. We microbes are the earliest li …
There are seventeen AWP members running from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 6 for the National Assembly and the rest for the provincial. The major focus of our elections will be Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In the Punjab, we expect 10 AWP candidates Farooq Tariq, general secretar …
In a number of cases our attitude and behavior towards animals is bizarre. Why should we hate pigs and what is the logic behind abhorring a creature which is as natural a product of evolution as we are Animal rights’ situation in Pakistan is dismal. While dog …
The USA had no problem in recognising a victory of Felipe Calderon in Mexico in 2006 with less than 0.2 per cent of the vote The victory of Nicolas Maduro in presidential election held April 14, with a narrow margin of 1.6 percent, brings to the fore the threa …
We will march forward in unison, with inspiring leaders of the Ummah such as Maulana Ludhianvi and Malik Mumtaz Qadri to achieve the ideal that our forefathers had laid down their lives for and that Abbaji had dreamed of Dear Brother Abdullah, Virtue is consol …
