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Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2013-01-17 to 2013-02-10). Top authors: Adnan Farooq, Waseem Altaf, Viewpoint, Muhammad Nafees, Mazhar Arif

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The 20 briefed by the ISPR

Adnan Farooq · Feb 10, 2013

Raheem Ullah Yousafzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman Shami, Haroon Ur Raheed (columnist), Talat Hussain, Zahid Hussain (Wall Street Journal), Ijaz Haider, Moeed Peerzada, Qatreena Hussain, Mehar Bokhari, Sana Bucha, Hamid Mir, Javed Ch., Saleem Safi, Arshad Sarif, Kashif …

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We need multiple measures to start a return: Mobarak Haider

Waseem Altaf · Feb 10, 2013

The forces of chaos and disruption will not agree on anything less than absolute power. Unfortunately the world community will have to act. We are moving in a direction where our case might resemble that of Japan and Germany in Second World War “Tragedies dark …

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Open letter to Najam Sethi: Jan Assakzai

Viewpoint · Feb 9, 2013

Dear Najam Sethi As some other pro-establishment Journalists and anchors in Pakistan, you also believe that the proxy Taliban represent Pashtuns in Afghanistan and by extension are their (Pashtuns’) political and ideological representatives. The problem with t …

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Suicide attacks in Pakistan

Muhammad Nafees · Feb 8, 2013

With the state machinery so weakened, it became easy for the non-state actors to use suicide attacks as a strategy to create scare among the people and the state machinery to such a level where they are left with no options other than to compromise or face the …

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Manto's world

Viewpoint · Feb 7, 2013

In a letter to Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi in 1939 when he was 27 years old, he wrote: "Whatever happens, I can find no satisfaction. I am not satisfied with anything. I am not even satisfied with myself. I feel as if who I am, what is inside me, it should not be so. I …

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“Wrong” faith in the “right” state

Waseem Altaf · Feb 5, 2013

Rana Chandra Singh, who was one of the founding members of Pakistan Peoples’ Party and a cabinet minister was many a time asked to leave while the cabinet was given briefing on defense Since the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is Islamic in character, it is imper …

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Begum Sahiba’s not-so-solo flight

Waseem Altaf · Feb 2, 2013

Hamuyun threw one crore rupees on the table and then asked the other party to begin the negotiations. This was being done by someone whose father could not even afford a bicycle On completion of 50 years of her political career or meritorious services to the S …

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Opportunism Jamaat-style

Waseem Altaf · Feb 2, 2013

Zia ul Haq met JI Chief Mian Tufail Mohammad for 90 minutes the night before Bhutto was hanged. The following day, the JI supporters took to the streets to celebrate Bhutto’s death. JI saved tons of US dollars but also tried to save US enemy No.1 Khalid Sheikh …

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Feminism or Femi-Nazism ?

Viewpoint · Jan 31, 2013

Men who call themselves feminists or stand for women rights are usually labeled as sissy, effeminate and gays by other men. These anti-feminist men are unconsciously suffering from castration anxiety W e live in a nation which mourns the birth of girls. Gender …

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Rent-a-PM

Viewpoint · Jan 31, 2013

If you already have carried out coup d’etas, or have your candidate in place, it is not too late. Please see our Morning-After package for details. (Previously called the Law of Necessity package.) All are welcome to visit our brand new facility at the Constit …

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The slaughter of Shiite Hazaras

Viewpoint · Jan 24, 2013

Today the struggle against state oppression is being ripped apart by religious sectarianism and other prejudices. The strategists of the state aggravate such conflicts to break the resistance The grotesque, remorseless and relentless slaughter of the Shiite Ha …

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Media and the middle class in Pakistan

Mazhar Arif · Jan 24, 2013

Since the lawyers’ movement, media, judiciary and so-called civil society, representing the urban educated middle class, are complementing each other in promoting particular ethno-religious and political interests besides promoting the state ideology or at lea …

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Pakistan’s Shia genocide 101

Viewpoint · Jan 24, 2013

The total number of Shia killed as per independent estimates is over 21,000 which includes several thousand children and professionals For decades Shia Muslims have been killed in Pakistan and the issue has either been pushed under the carpet or obfuscated usi …

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Tax evasion with TV stars: The case of Mubashar Luqman, Jasmin Manzoor (PartIV)

Viewpoint · Jan 24, 2013

The Income Tax authorities have also investigated the cases of Asif Raza Mir, Saveera Nadeem, Nouman Ejaz, Nadia Hussain, Mehroz Krim Rind, Humayoon Saeed, Tayyaba Ali, and Umera Ahmed Mubashar Luqman [CNIC: 35201-5652105-9. National Tax No: 1761653-7] is a no …

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The rise of Islamists in Pakistan

Viewpoint · Jan 24, 2013

In a January 6 video, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, indicated that it is broadening the jihadi battlefield to include Kashmir and India It is becoming clear that religious and jihadi forces in Pakistan and its neighborhood are taking a leaf out of, prove …

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Pakistan awaiting the clerical tsunami: Pervez Hoodbhoy

Farooq Sulehria · Jan 22, 2013

Taseer’s assassin is a Barelvi Muslim belonging to the Dawat-e-Islami, and 500 clerics of this faith supported his action. Most of these mullahs are part of the Sunni Tehreek and are supposedly anti-Taliban moderates. Those who claim that Pakistan’s silent maj …

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There are countless Malalas

Akram Javed · Jan 21, 2013

Why is it so easy to rage at the Taliban? Why is it so hard to rage at the conditions that gave rise to the Taliban and continue to sustain it The Taliban is a festering sore on the body politic, oozing rotting and smelly pus. But the sore is a symptom of a mu …

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A letter to HEC on fake ‘journals’

Q. Isa Daudpota · Jan 19, 2013

In the 40 hours or so I have spent researching this letter, I have had several hundred browser windows open related to academic fraud, and while I cannot provide you all this information. I will in the following give you a flavor of what I unearthed Dear Mr. J …

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How Pakistan compares with the West

Viewpoint · Jan 17, 2013

To allow oneself to be lulled to sleep by a reassuring lie, rather than accepting the inconvenient truth, is the greatest disservice one can do to his country. "Hush, little rape victim! Don't holler too much on the media about the injustice done to you, lest …

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Project Democracy: What is to be done?

Viewpoint · Jan 17, 2013

As the latest drama of rhetoric and revolutionary idiom unfolds, it is imperative that all progressive forces pool in their organisational resources to defend the latest bout of civilian rule against khaaki (and assorted) conspiracies On the afternoon of 15th …

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