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Asiya Bibi committed blasphemy. She planned her outrage in a calculated and cold blooded manner. She wanted to drink from the same water tap as the pious and de...
Over 8000 Workers from the All Pakistan Hydroeletric Workers Union staged a sit-in and rally in Islamabad on January 28 to protest the ongoing privatization of ...
“So you no longer want to hear about classes and their struggles? You’ll get the plebs and disjointed multitudes. You no longer want peoples? You’ll get packs a...
SYRIZA: 149 seats, 36.5%; New Democracy: 76 seats, 27.8%; Golden Dawn: 17 seats, 6.3%; To Potami: 17 seats, 6.1%; KKE: 15 seats, 5.5%; Independent Greeks (ANEL)...
Far away from Peshawar five men and a woman sat in a physician’s waiting room in Lucknow. The television screen that ordinarily shows some Bollywood film or a c...
One year ago, today, Kobanî declared itself as an autonomous canton. Today [January 27], after 135 days of fearless resistance, the people of Kobanî have libera...
It looks the long agitation that began from Lahore on August 14 last year has finally ended in Islamabad with a happy ending for its leader Imran Khan who recen...
Your Extreme Majesty, The Servitor of the Harmain Sharifain, please accept salutations from the Brothers Sharifain. May the sun of Allah’s munificence always sh...
The brutal assassination of 146 children in Peshawar on 16 th December 2014, the attacks on the French newspaper on 7 th January killing 11 people and injuring ...
نظم: تمھیں ٹھیس پہونچتی ہے * تمھیں ٹھیس پہنچتی ہے - سکرات کی شوخ بیانی سے، یا شاید ، منصور کے نعرہ روحانی سے کوپرنیکس کی تلاش رموز آسمانی سے ، اور سرمد کی عریان...
On the morning of 6th of September, 1929, a man stood waiting outside the shop of Mahashay Rajpal, who hadn't arrived yet. As soon as Rajpal arrived, the man, I...
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On November 3, 2014, Malik Siraj Akbar, a Baloch journalist settled in the USA, critically analysed the Baloch nationalist movement in his piece on Huffington P...
The National Security Advisor to Prime Minister, Sartaj Aziz, in an interview with BBC Urdu on November 16 (1), has for the first time, at least implicitly if n...
Despite the disillusionment of a part of the population, particularly among young people and the most disadvantaged layers, participation in the Tunisian parlia...
Jalalatul Mulk, All praise is for Allah who is the creator of the universe and the Islamabad winter; who created the D-Chowk and did not create the public toile...
Defining culture, in a precise manner, is impossible. I find Leon Trotsky’s definition of culture fairly useful. ‘Culture is all that has been created, built, a...
In yet another grisly incident, a furious mob beat a Christian couple, Shehzad and Shama, to death and then burnt their bodies in a brick kiln where they labore...
Translator’s Note : On the occasion of Iqbal’s 137 th birth anniversary, I’m presenting an original translation of Manto’s heartfelt tribute to another fellow-K...
