Found 858 articles matching your filters across English, Cartoons (2012-01-01 to 2012-01-25). Top authors: Amit Ranjan, Farooq Sulehria, Waseem Altaf, Tariq Ali, Arshad Mahmood
Defending President Zardari does not imply that one is supporting all his actions. It’s about defending the life of the institution he is heading Once again the swords are out of scabbard and the Pakistani army is all out to demolish the democratically elected …
There is far too much respect for institutions like the BBC shown by media producers from the South. The corporate media were instrumental in the attempted coup to overthrow President Chavez “The media are a site of political, economic and cultural power – Mar …
Rs 25 b would be spent this year alone in Pakistan on this primitive ritual. Can we not spend this huge sum of money in a more rational and productive way? Millions have lost so much during the recent floods. Can’t this money be spent on their rehabilitation? …
He had no doubt of his place in literary history and left behind the following epitaph for himself: “Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto. With him lie buried the arts of short-story telling. Here he lies underneath tons of mud still wondering if he was a better short …
Business tycoons have ventured into this trade earning billions; terrorist organizations collect meat and hides, while at the bottom of the ladder, the Mullah and madrassa students get sufficient meat to eat The concept of sacrifice is an ancient one in human …
“I do not think Manto was particularly obsessed with prostitution. It might be more accurate to say that he was part of a broader movement in Modern literature to depict sexuality more honestly and sincerely than earlier generations had done, and writing stori …
Faiz wrote to his wife Alys upon Manto’s death “I was very sad to hear of Manto’s death. Inspite of all his shortcomings, he was very dear to me and I am proud that he was my student in Amritsar…” “be-mai kise hai :taaqat-e aashob-e aagahii” Without wine, who …
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 in its entirety By proposing …
General Yahya khan was addressing the nation; fully drunk: “We will fight in the streets in the lands and in our houses and devastate the enemy which dared to attack us.” And then BBC informed that 90,000 Pak army regulars, Para-military and others surrendered …
The lessoned learned after the 1968 movement translated into a doctrine whereby even Bizenjos and the Mengals were discounted let alone Bhuttos and Mujibs. The reconfiguration first created the Sharifs and now Imran is given a go-ahead to capture some of the t …
Imran Khan’s politics of convenience has pushed him into a conflict of ideologies so whenever the secular graduate of Oxford awakes inside him the conservative patrons hush him up It seems political pundits have nothing else on their minds lately but the proph …
Mr. Qureshi struck a deal with Imran Khan under which he would get the post of senior vice chairman of the party and chairmanship of the parliamentary board which would award party tickets for the general elections. Another part of the deal is that Mr. Qureshi …
Both Jamat-e-Islami and Pakistan's deep state were looking for a charismatic character, who had a glitz of the Western culture and a mindset of an Islamist. One senior memeber of Jamat-e-Islami, namely Hafeea ullah Niazi effectively solved this problem by find …
