Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2012-05-14 to 2012-05-19). Top authors: Faiz Al-Najdi, Kapil Dev, Masood Ashraf Raja, Durriya Hashmi, Cindy Zahnd
“The 1992 World Cup was won by the Pakistani Cricket Team and not by Imran Khan alone. To be fair, the credit for the win goes squarely to Inzamam Ul Haq, Waseem Akram, Aqib Javed and Javed Miandad. And, secondly the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is a great c …
HRCP reports that over 500 Hindu families have migrated from Pakistan only in 2011 With due anger and sheer frustration, it is stated that the first ever slogan I had heard and chanted as a child was “Naaraye Bhutto: Jeaye Bhutto”. My political consciousness h …
A great example of this symbiotic relationship between the intellectual and a people is that of the Zapatista movement I must declare at the outset that I do not see these two concepts in a binaristic fashion as both these conepcts, at least in my field of stu …
If Postmodernists view high-culture and low-culture in a similar vein then why does postmodern media thrust the audience on an 'elitist model' of communication and information? With the launch of each new smartphone or an intriguing social networking website t …
This is a movement still alive after 40 years, one that recently brought the peasants back together to fight back evictions. This is the tale of another failed revolution… Or that of a movement largely forgotten that could surprise everyone by brandishing its …
Islamic fundamentalism and postmodernism are ‘remarkably close in their critique of capitalism, although neither reject capitalism altogether or envisions socialism as a viable alternative. The only difference between them, perhaps, is that postmodernism offer …
Youth of Jan25 Revolution are subject to collective punishment On May 13, 2012, the Egyptian Court of Appeals will consider the sentence of two years imprisonment against four socialist militants and co-founding members of The Socialist Popular Alliance Party …
Published in 1986, ‘Facts are Facts’ by the late Wali Khan was an instant hit. ‘Facts are Facts’ is an attempt to contest text book versions of Pakistan’s history. In a bid to generate debate, the Viewpoint is serializing this text The Diaries of Sir George Cu …
Zardari has been indicted 14 years ago, you didn’t catch him 14 years ago, and you let all those years pass by — why can’t you wait for a year-and-a-half rather than destabilise the whole democratic process ‘Many of the problems that we face today in terms of …
For a person of Jewish descent, there are two ways of drawing lessons from the Nazi genocide of the European Jews: one leads to saying "Never again to us, the Jews" and the other "Never again" tout court. The former conclusion stems from a narrow ethnic outloo …
Express 24/7 wound up and the staff was laid off by email. But it is not uncommon in Pakistan Every year, thousands of articles, news stories and features appear on May Day. These expose the gloomy plight of laborers in mines, brick kilns, factories and other …
In Moscow and St.-Petersburg, the KPRF came out officially against the movement, which its leader Gennnady Zyuganov publicly described as “orange poison” Following the strong comeback of Vladimir Putin in the presidential election held on March 4, 2012, Ilya B …
India-oriented, Punjab-based jihadists receive a kid-glove treatment from the deep state operatives “Genocide is any act that puts the very existence of a group in jeopardy” — Professor Henry Huttenbach. When Winston Churchill in his August 24, 1941 speech des …
Any youngster watching TV circus aka Talk Shows will be left desperate and hopeless, especially because these gentlemen dismissed the biggest avenue a commoner has got for bringing a change- democracy The media were frantic much before the Prime Minister Yusuf …
There is no finer mark of a Pakistani man than a fully oiled, waxed and twirled moustache . For 18 years, Amir Muhammad Afridi’s vast handlebar moustache, curling as high as his forehead, made him a celebrity throughout the rugged, tribal lands that border Afg …
The bench-boots connivance has brought a great deal of benefits to judges collaborating with the military rulers. Even Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was promoted as CJP by surpassing Justice Falak Sher mere because he was at one point an eager devotee of the Musha …
A significant recent example of protest action by workers was the protest by thousands of workers from Pepsi bottling plants, on the 14 th November 2011, against an agreement between PepsiCo. and ‘Master Kong’ The number of cases of resistance in China continu …
The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to have sent an unequivocal message to current leaders: that great office confers no immunity. In fact it sent two messages: if you run a small, weak nation, you may be subject to the f …
A swarm of criticism has been leveled against Mona Eltahawy's recent Foreign Policy cover story on the state of women in the Arab world. Some of it has been ridiculous, like Samia Errazzouki's allegation that the cover photo and story was "degrading" to women …
The judges of higher judiciary received double raise in their salaries in 2010 by the present ‘corrupt regime’. After two hikes in a single year the salary of chief justice increased to Rs 389,757 from Rs199,838. The judicial allowance also raised to Rs170,625 …
