Found 858 articles matching your filters across English, Cartoons (2011-11-19 to 2011-12-06). Top authors: Syed Mujahid Ali, Amit Julka and Shamshad Khan, Viewpoint, Saima Beg, Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Toni Usman used Manto’s letters as inspiration and Manto’s grave as symbol to stage a strong and communicative expression Toni Usman is an intelligent and extremely gifted artist who has worked as stage and TV artist in Norway for the last two decades. He has …
Newspapers like Ausaf were generally suspicious of India’s intentions and took a pro-military line. The following extract from Ausaf is particularly revealing in this regard: “We will call upon Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, President Zardari, ISI Ch …
Dear friends and comrades, The National Students Federation formally came alive after a period of more than two decades on 25 th -26 th November in Faisalabad, upon successfully concluding its two-day NSF Punjab Convention (the first NSF convention to be held …
The lifting of ban on Bollywood films has actually encouraged competition and revived cinema in Pakistan ‘’Intolerance of the kiss is an extreme example of the dichotomy and hypocrisy with which we have set some mores and rules. Degrading, brutalizing scenes o …
Faiz disagreed with Rashed’ life philosophy but respected him as a poet and a friend. Rashed and Faiz studied at Lahore’s famed Government College together Nazar Mohammad (NM) Rashed (1910-1975) is sometimes called a ‘poet’s poet’. This is, on occasion, a back …
In May 1948, Pakistan People’s Party was founded in Karachi. Ghaffar Khan was elected president and G. M. Sayyid, general secretary. Its objectives included stabilization and security of Pakistan as a union of Socialist republics The first non-communal opposit …
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the marketplace all that seemed fixed and frozen since the revolution in 1949, but -- as with all other forms of capitalism -- this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of aut …
In September 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India organized an exhibition on the Quran at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. It highlighted the teachings of the Quran under a wide range of headings: Justice; Suffering; Death; Science; Peace; Wome …
While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the "Arab Spring" over and advising the rebellious masses to go back home, recent days have made it abundantly clear that the revolutionary process which was sparked in Tunisia late …
Even if Imran Khan’s corruption-free utopia comes into being, it will not end capitalist and feudal exploitation The clean-shaven Amir of what the Beyghairat Brigade calls “Beautiful Jamaat-e-Islami” has begun to draw even more attention in the mainstream medi …
Names such as Bhagat Singh, Mangal Panday, Rani Lakshmibai etc. are never even remotely mentioned in Pakistani course books, why? Thiers and contributions of other unsung (at least in Pakistan) heroes are immense I love the fact that the entire Islamic nation, …
The JEI which began as a staunch opponent of the India’s secular, democratic polity (idolatrous system) had now turned into its active participant some 40 years later. Marking this shift, the phrase iqaamat-e-din disappeared from the mastheads of the Jamaat’s …
On Feb 7 this year Jamaat Amir Sheikh Ghulam Hassan said that the Jamaat was primarily established for the propagation of Islam. “Our first duty is to fulfil this obligation. Resolution of Kashmir is secondary for us,” he told a national daily Jamaat-i-Islami …
These Lahore boys, all of them in their late 70s or early 80s, reminisce a Lahore of a bygone era, when it was prided as the most communally harmonious city of northern India I am a long-time resident in Sweden where I have been living since September 1973. Wh …
In 2001, Jamaat contested the election as a BNP-ally while its Ameer and general secretary became Khalida Zia’s cabinet ministers. At country’s 30th birthday Jamaat was ruling, at least partly, the country it had bitterly resisted at the time of its birth. It …
While Jamaat was at the helm in Peshawar, NATO supplies were safely travelling from Karachi to Torkham and beyond The Jamaat-e-Islami was a brainchild of Maulana Maudodi (1903-1979). His views bear an extraordinary resemblance to the ideas of seventeenth centu …
When met for its 13 th meeting last March, the committee was of the view that the Section 12 of the Lahore Arts Council Ordinance 2002 did not allow the purchase of such a car. At its 18 th meeting, the committee silently approved the request Columnist, writer …
Assassination is as American as apple pie. The record-breaking case of assassination-targeting is Fidel Castro. The 1976 Church Committee report on “Alleged Assassination Plots on Foreign Leaders” listed “at least” seven attempts to kill Castro, but the book b …
