Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2013-03-06 to 2013-03-14). Top authors: Viewpoint, Khaled Ahmed, Nayyer Khan, Dil Nawaz, Lee Artz and Yahya Kamalipour
To learn and practice the ideas of the saint Mr. Raja had no need to visit his shrine. Rather he can sincerely try to follow the saints teachings in letter and spirit A few days ago, Pakistani Prime Minister, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf made a lightening fast visit to …
Armed militias cannot be allowed to operate and hold territory. Unless the aim of the talks is to settle how armed rebellion is to be ended, they will get nowhere ‘The real issue is whether the state has a clear notion of what it is trying to achieve in this c …
You begin to see episodes and reminders of violence as normal components of the environment. You see those protective barriers, checkpoints and armed guards just as you see the trees and the birds around you As old age renders long journeys from Canada to Paki …
Our nation is on a mission to wipe out everything remotely related to art – especially dissenting art - in the name of vulgarity and replace it with something way more crass and inhuman instead A stroll down the Lahore’s Abbot Road, lined by cinema houses, wil …
In the year 2011, it is clear that Pakistan Army will not fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda the way the world wants it to. And the reason is Punjab. Many will find this a strange formulation but the fact is that Al Qaeda has been rendered impregnable by the shift …
Volunteers from Communist Party joined British army to fight Nazi Germany. Faiz Ahmad Faiz had the rank of an honorary Captain in Royal Indian Army and time proved that it was the right decision on part of Communist Party of India I do not expect a balanced ou …
The Sunni Jamaat which used to buy airtime on previously secular channel DM Manchester, has launched its own Takbeer TV. The Hidayat TV belongs to Pakistani Shia clerics, who faithfully toe the instructions coming out of Qom. The Peace TV is owned by Indian Sa …
Between 1991 and 28 February 2012, there were 15 general strikes in India Over one hundred million workers across India struck work for two days, on 20 and 21 February. The precise number is difficult to ascertain, but the strike went beyond the expectation of …
‘Islamists’ were trying to focus the discussion on replacing the current system with the Khilafa while the others, while accepting the flaws, were geared up to give some more time to the Westminster democracy “The democracy has ruined us all”, he said. “Our la …
Hugo’s role could perhaps be compared with that of the old Lazaro Cardenas, President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. He, too, carried out massive reforms including redistribution of land to the peasants and nationalization of Mexico's oil wealth The day after Hu …
Coming from a poor family, Chavez ascended to the highest position in his country through elections and his charm as a charismatic leader who always rejected status quo and embraced the doctrine of social change for transforming the life of his masses in all s …
The “reader-as-producer” perspective expresses little concern regarding globalization, despite the fact that most intercultural communication and dialogue filters – simultaneously pasteurizing cultural activity and bolstering capitalist media hegemony The very …
What of the country he leaves behind? A paradise? Certainly not. How could it be, given the scale of the problems? But he leaves behind a very changed society in which the poor felt they had an important stake in the government Once I asked whether he preferre …
The Communist Party of Bangladesh or Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dol (Socialist Party) have been unwavering in their commitment to the war criminal trials ‘Sadly, the Awami League has not fully restored the 1972 constitution – the present constitution is a strange …
The place of a woman is in the harem and in the kitchen. Those who defy this custom will face the full power of the divine law as formulated by the divine authorities such as General Mustache ul Haq, the father of the nation and Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the fat …
The statement below was issued by the Women Action Forum (WAF), Karachi, following the attack on Shia residents of Abbas Colony Once again we share unspeakable horror at the carnage against citizens, this time in AbbasTown, Karachi. Once again we express our c …
Now fresh presidential elections will be held probably in thirty days. Chavez’s appointed successor and PSUV candidate Nicolas Maduro will most probably win. Maduro has promised to maintain Chavez’s ‘revolutionary, anti-imperialist and socialist legacy’ In the …
A country where 80% of the population does not have access to clean drinking water feels pride in having a nuclear weapon Muslim League was created in Dacca, the movement for Pakistan took place in UP and Bihar but the country which later came into being was l …
Here is the answer to Correa’s question: Marx, in Latin America today, would not be an extractivist, because that would mean abandoning the goal of transforming the modes of production, becoming a bourgeois economist In Latin America strategies are still being …
“It is Mujib’s home district. Kill as many bastards as you can and make sure there is no Hindu left alive,” I was ordered. I frequently met Mr Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry, Maulana Farid Ahmed and many other Muslim League and Jamaat leaders. In the Army, you wear no …
