Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2013-08-01 to 2013-08-18). Top authors: Viewpoint, Muhammad Umer, Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Fahad Shah, Lakht Pasha/Kashif Baloch
The conspiracy of silence over Balochistan is finally breaking but the alienation of the province runs too deep for any easy solutions. If Pakistan manages to weather the crisis it is facing with the demand for an independent Balochistan gathering steam, the n …
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(Faiz A. Faiz’ editorial of the Pakistan Times dated Feb 2, 1948. Original title was: Long Live Gandhiji) The British tradition of announcing the death of a king is “The king is dead, long live the king!”Nearly 25 years ago, Mahatama Gandhi writing a moving ed …
Caliph al-Hadi put to death in Baghdad 5,000 philosophers in order to destroy sciences in Muslim countries. Be it the brutal treatment of liberal scholars or an ideological war against rationality waged by people like Ghazali, Islam and the Quran were always a …
An ardent critic of this unholy alliance, Hamza Alavi always thought we have been serving a super power that used us throughout the history of our existence for the last half-a-century for its own vested interests. The partnership has been unbalanced and one w …
Caliph al-Hadi put to death in Baghdad 5,000 philosophers in order to destroy sciences in Muslim countries. Be it the brutal treatment of liberal scholars or an ideological war against rationality waged by people like Ghazali, Islam and the Quran were always a …
Since the last summer, police have arrested over 4294 stone throwers across different places to ensure peace in the Valley On February 25, 2011, Faizan Rafiq Hakeem, 14, son of Mohammad Rafiq Hakeem of Reshi Bazaar, Islamabad,in South Kashmir, was booked under …
Josh is not a memorable film, qualifying for an honorable mention in the book of recent Pakistani movies. Its media hype is strangely strong in Pakistan, but one has to actually watch the movie and compare it to efforts across the border in India before justif …
AZO's struggle indeed was aimed at toppling a brutal and reactionary military dictatorship, but by no means was it being waged for the restoration of democracy. It was analyzing the situation through the eyes of radical Marxism ‘Al-Zulfiqar Organisation’s aims …
It is the not an accident that India and Pakistan, housing 22 percent of the world population, host 44 percent of the world poverty yet they are amongst the top five buyers of military hard ware The killing of five Indian military personnel in firing across th …
Instead of highlighting their problems that force them to take up prostitution, they are insulted, guilt-framed, and harassed in the lust for ratings The television medium thrives on scandals, conspiracy stories, shaming, and so on. Most TV channels will do an …
Punjabis are more open-minded and welcoming. This phenomenon also dominates the folk dances of Punjab Naach is a Sanskrit word, which was also used in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and other languages afterwards. According to the Hindu believe Naach is one of the vario …
Just like FEMEN cannot speak for all feminists, MWAF or other veil-endorsing Muslim feminists are not the sole voice of all Muslim women Bearing out a common man's pet peeve, Sigmund Freud had famously confessed that despite spending years in psychological res …
Shilpa Phadke tells Richa Kaul Padte that feminist mothers face the dilemma of giving their daughters agency while teaching them to take calculated risks in negotiating urban spaces. . What sparked your research around feminist mothering, and why did you choos …
The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in poverty by 2011-12 to grossly unrealistic levels of 13.7 per cent of population in urban areas and 25.7 per cent in rural areas, using monthly poverty lines of Rs. 1000 and Rs. …
Ali returned home late evening on 20 October, 2012 after spending 45 days without sunlight. He and his family are convinced that his return was divine miracle rather than the outcome of an ill-afforded ransom put together through borrowings ‘Ali’ was kidnapped …
The commander of the faithful, the rightly guided caliph of the Ummah, Imran Khan, has said that this war is not our war. He also said that Mumtaz Qadri has been misunderstood just as Adolf Hitler was misunderstood before him Felicitations to the Ummah and Ram …
A Muslim is not just 76 kilograms of Islam turned flesh; a one-dimensional being whose every action, from writing a book to doing an interview, can be traced back to an ‘Islamic agenda’. This is the simple concept that eluded Lauren Green, as it escapes most o …
Chomsky answers a familiar question as he has often answered before. The supposed wisdom of Zizek, Lacan, etc. - answers Chomsky, ( http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html ), is typically not wisdom but, inste …
Ban on the ad stems from our society’s deep rooted patriarchal and hegemonic perspective on sex as an act and marriage as an institution. Sex as a topic is discussed either as an act of procreation or a sin When PEMRA, Pakistan’s media watchdog, decided to tak …
