Found 858 articles matching your filters across English, Cartoons (2010-07-01 to 2010-09-08). Top authors: Administrator, Sabir Nazar, Viewpoint, Adnan Farooq
Today’s guest contributor, Tariq Ali, is a writer, activist and political commentator. A leading figure of the Trotskyist movement in the sixties and seventies, Ali’s engagement with Trotsky goes far beyond party politics. I met up with him at the Edinburgh Bo …
It has reinforced a dilemma that Pakistani young generation is facing; that is, they have to use three different languages: mother tongue or regional languages at home, Urdu language with friends or may be in market and English language in classroom P akistan …
In a country like ours, where the public takes the Army to be the best run institute despite the corruption a top-ranked officer indulges in, this really should not come as a surprise. Most of the Pakistani cricketers come from a poor background and are a prod …
Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. There is not a single young scholar who is not on the military's payroll or network. Shahbaz Sharif used to instruct the police to facilitate Hamid Gul's Varan bus servi …
If the leaching ponds containing the effluents of a milling and leaching plant are not covered in water, the dumped waste can dry up and gets blown all over by winds, as often happens in and near Dera Ghazi Khan Dr. A. H. Nayyar is Director of the Ali Institut …
There is a complete blackout on the effects of uranium mining in Dera Ghazi Khan in south Punjab. Researchers too were defeated by the powerful nuclear establishment that keeps even health information as a national secret S adly, absolutely nothing is known ab …
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FROM 624 to 628AD, several Jewish clans in the Arabian peninsula joined forces with an Arab tribe, the Quraysh, to make war on a renegade Qurayshi named Muhammad who had had the chutzpah to claim he was a prophet of God. They lost. Piqued at the Jews for rejec …
Washington is backing an alliance between the government, warlords already in power, Taliban and the arch-criminal Hekmattyar whose true place is at the Hague tribunal. This policy may be the only way to get out of an inextricable war but the fate of the entir …
Over 250,000 textile workers in, Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city, won a complete victory on July 29 after a nine-day strike. Their chief demand was the implementation of a decision to increase wages by 17 percent – one of the tenets of the National L …
In an age of superficial best-sellers, scholarly endeavors often at best end up in libraries and keep gathering dust. Books that instead of conforming to clichés tend to deconstruct myths, do not often appeal editors of newspapers' cultural sections. However, …
If Pastor Martin Niemoller were alive today and living in Pakistan, he would have inserted few alterations in his famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Hitler's rise to power and would still have sounded authentic: THEY CA …
The Sunni-Sunni war reached a peak in 2006 at Nishtar Park, the year the ISI allowed Sipah-e-Sahaba to stage its show of power in Islamabad, senior journalist and Editor Khaled Ahmed responds to some questions by Viewpoint on the post-Data Darbar attack scenar …
In 2009, the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) ranked Pakistan 113 out of 130 countries to visit. Political instability, suicide attacks, the kidnapping of foreigners, and conflict between religious and military forces has …
