Found 858 articles matching your filters across English, Cartoons (2010-06-01 to 2010-07-01). Top authors: Viewpoint, Sabir Nazar
"During my frequent visits to Pakistan in the 1990s, all kinds of theories were expressed whenever there was an attack on members of the Shia or Sunni community," the German journalist Hans Bremer wrote in The News (Feb 26, 2003). "One that always struck me as …
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means - Sallust All kinds of target killers seem to have landed in this country of pious people. You name them and there they are holding a gun in their hands and ready to take a shot at t …
I met Mustansar Randhawa (32) briefly on 19th June 2010 in Faisalabad, less than a month before his murder. He was one of 30 participants in trade union leadership training at the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) office. The LQM is a community-based labor organizat …
On July 10, in Afghanistan's eastern border province of Paktia, gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Pakistani tribal people who had crossed into Afghanistan to buy supplies. The ambush blamed on Taliban, claimed 14 lives. All the victims belonged to Parac …
On January 1, 2009, young Oscar Grant was killed by a transit cop in Oakland , California . While lying face down with a cop kneeling on his neck, Grant was shot in the back by another cop as a crowd of train passengers watched in horror. Grant, was an African …
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that the rise of a new feminism - rooted in Islamic discourse, non-confrontational, privatized and persona …
My greatest fear is politics. Not because of some high-sounding pseudo-philosophical reason, but because politics, like its greatest practitioners, always looks at things in absolutes. There is always a black or a white. Politicians do deal in the greys, they …
"Any woman regardless of her dress, her faith----whether she is an atheist or believer----can join a mobilisation for women rights. The participation of all women, wearing or not wearing veils of any kind, in political and social activities should simply be we …
(I) Dr Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was the first and so far only Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in 1979. That he was an Ahmadi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the beards guarding the ever-expanding 'ideological frontiers' gave Dr Salam a treatment an Ahmedi …
The English Defense League (EDL) is the latest gang of racist street-fighters to crawl out of the rotten woodwork of British imperialism. These football hooligans with their shaved skinheads and in some cases Nazi tattoos have been swaggering through the Musli …
ISLAMABAD: Recently ranked as 'The Most Corrupt Province' by the Transparency International (TI) in its latest report on Pakistan, Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province has been rocked by a new corruption scandal as grave irregularities have been marked in the purchase …
"According to several estimates, Islamic organisations, many of which are linked to armed groups, can draw from a pool of money ranging from $5 billion to $16 billion, the Saudi government alone donates $ 10 billion via the ministry of Religious Works every ye …
Getting a reincarnation, though not in full, the Viewpoint needs very special reading and circulation by the leftist elements in Pakistan who can envisage a new paradigm based on social justice, tolerance and pluralism. I am a student of some of the great livi …
On Sunday, June 20, a successful protest against Israel was held on the docks of the Port of Oakland, California. Some 800 community and labor activists showed up at the time that a Zin (Israeli) Line ship was supposed to dock and be unloaded. The dock workers …
As the CIA was busy chiseling out Mujahideen back in 1980s, corporate publishing houses in West were working just as hard to publish books on Afghanistan. Even Hollywood every now and then would lend a helping hand (Rambo III). In the 1990s, Pamir hills lost t …
In the wake of September 11, when the USA was busy installing a puppet regime consisting of notorious warlords, the Human Rights Watch issued a backgrounder. A number of commanders associated with the new coalition of warlords had, according to HRW, a record o …
Who was the person, if not Hamid Mir, that talked to a terrorist and sealed the fate of the ex-ISI official, Khalid Khwaja? Who were the killers of Murtaza Bhutto if not those who were accused, tried, and then acquitted by the court? Who was the killer of Dani …
