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We were told to avoid talking politics in the dining hall, as it was against the spirit of the army rules, General Zia, our then dictator, was canvassing the na...
As the Bombay tragedy was unfolding on TV screens, Pakistani anchorpersons were busy concocting unimaginable cock and bull stories. Most fantastic theory was we...
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Faisalabad city of Punjab province, the second largest industrial and commercial city of the cou...
When reprobates like Syed Salim Shahzad start casting aspersions on the holiest of all the Ummah institutions, we cannot just sit back and watch. We have to tak...
Climate change and extreme climate events do not occur in a social vacuum. The present social climate is that of capitalism run amok. Communities, particularly ...
The solution for the global warming/global climate disruption crisis lies not in development of nuclear energy. And the problem is not a technological one; it i...
Today the ISI has a senior officer designated to look after media management, whereby appropriate persons are purchased. The Abbotabad debacle is a case in poin...
Nobody can think faster than a speeding bullet! Not even Imran Khan, Hameed Gul, Farid Paracha, Ehsan Iqbal, Ansar Abassi et al who grace one talk show or anoth...
Al-Nahda, the largest Islamist party was mentioned over and over again. But Al-Nahda is not the only player. Hizb ul Tehrir is also vying for the religious cons...
Retired bureaucrats appointed in violation of Supreme Court orders to supervise Danish Schools construction The cancer of corruption, loot, nepotism, jobbery an...
In the first year of the 21st century, Osama stretched the dominant Islamic thought of the 20th century to its extreme. A decade later, there is a growing body ...
Neither archaeological nor literary sources actually provide any link between the present day Ayodhya and the Ayodhya of the treta age W ithin a short while aft...
A few weeks ago, I received a call from Mayank Gandhi, Mumbai coordinator of ‘India Against Corruption’, invting me to be part of a panel in Mumbai to address a...
The women belonging to the left in Pakistan did try to evaluate Iqbal with a feminist perspective, but, of course, were deeply disappointed. To Iqbal the ummah’...
His comrade, Pardo Llada considered the trip useless. He describes a long conversation over dinner with Nehru at the former residence of the imperial viceroys, ...
" Comrades, I am glad to tell you that Comrade Che Guevara was in Karachi yesterday. He was travelling on an Arab country's passport and came here as an Arab gu...
Where is the proof that Gaddafi was about to slaughter civilians? -- Bedouin hyperbole is no proof. As Diana Johnstone has asked, why was no United Nations fact...
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 41 MARCH 11, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Search...
Below is a statement by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) on global situation. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt constitute a histori...
To President Barak Obama, United States of America, White House, Washington DC, USA Dear President Obama, Subject: Implementation of Concurrent Resolution of US...
