Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2013-02-10 to 2013-03-01). Top authors: Amjad Nazeer, Viewpoint, John Reimann, J. Sri Raman, Sahar Saba
Taliban’s brand of regimental Wahabyist Islam is actually attacking religious diversity and peaceful coexistence – a centuries old tradition of the land – is now shirk to them. Unable to impose their narrowest-prejudiced doctrine, they employ fear to scare awa …
I believe we are living among a generation of young people who are religiously concerned about the meaning of their lives but for whom the historically religious institutions have largely failed All religions teach communal harmony, respect for human rights, a …
Just because someone is rich, doesn’t mean that sexual abuse will not hurt Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the renowned Sitar player Ravi Shankar and a Sitar player herself, recently released the message below: While lending support to the One Billion Rising in …
Coca Cola sponsoring Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) or Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy receiving award from World Economic Forum may also be astonishing developments, but Abida Parveen becoming part of political ad is more shocking In my view, power of mainstream (co …
Bugti's killing provided real fuel to the movement and as the uprising took root, the military's excesses increased disproportionately. Moreover, the military establishment, then a close ally in America's WoT, not only legitimised its excesses through painting …
The big question isn‘t whether the regime will fall, but how soon. It’s in the best interests of the future of Syria that the regime falls very soon ‘I think it’s hard to imagine Israel launching an attack on a target like Iran without a clear green light from …
It all started when an old shaheen named Gen Uftad-ul-naHaque realizing that there were a lot of potential shaheens in his country who could save the nation form the ongoing crisis of sheer lack of interest shown by jawans in the procces of building the Islami …
Today philosophy has to fulfill its duty by smashing modern idols and religions which controls our life by donning them in modern garbs, but religiously following their ideological agenda by riding the roughshod over “Others’ who do not toe the line of their r …
However, it is simplistic to attribute violence to a creed. The root cause of nearly all violent acts can be traced to economic factors. Religion provides a vehicle, legitimacy, or at best rationale to aggression Violence in the current day and age is regarded …
Women are portrayed as a ‘prize’, a ‘reward’ as if they have no feelings of their own. Like a trophy sitting in a cabinet that can be handed over to the winner; a trophy that has no feelings, desires, aspirations of its own. But again, to be ‘that trophy’ a wo …
‘So long as the three great problems of the century – the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of women through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light – are unsolved…books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of us …
Clint Eastwood also attacked Obama for having been a lawyer. We shouldn't have attorneys for president, he commented to laughter and applause. But the dimwit was ignorant of the fact that Romney, too, is an attorney I recorded part of the Republican convention …
Prof. Saba Dashtiari is one of the few Balochi fiction writers who has penned short stories depicting the plight of women living in the tribal areas of Balochistan Tribal hierarchy has often been attributed to as the major factor contributing to the maladies o …
The presence of the ghost schools is also another display of sheer state apathy and its weak control over the schools. The government has identified 25,000 ghost schools Corruption of education is not much of a financial burden as it is more a matter of academ …
Pakistan was one of the few Muslim countries to back the United Nations Development of Human Rights (UDHR) on the issue of Article 18, which was concerned with the freedom to change one’s religion. Headed by Sir Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan ardently supported the …
More likely given her line of thinking, she was talking of the emotional non-integration of Kashmir with the rest of the nation. Maybe, the observation was her way of underlining the Kashmiri people's alienation, which she blames on the behavior of India's sec …
Hope for them lies in the constitutional change and culturally located critiques such as Bol. Only through these, and not US cultural imperialism, shall they be able to be reintegrated into a social fabric they were so brutally de-rooted from by the last imper …
The ‘nationalisation’ under Bhutto was in fact bureaucratisation of the industries. Bhutto’s nationalization did not imply either workers’ management and control or collective ownership There has been an aggressive campaign in the international as well as loca …
We do not have the resources to successfully counter even one man, Islam-supremacist Dr. Zakir Naik, who has been the focus of our attention since early days. The Ahl-e-Hadith Wahhabi sect that supports him has massive financial resources. He runs a television …
“In Pakistan, media personnel have always been used by the establishment and political powers, be it the coup d’état in 1999 or the formation of the IJI in 1992” In its short order issued in the Arsalan Iftikhar Suo Motu Case, on June 14, 2012, the Supreme Cou …
