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Political Islam, Politics of Identity, Ethnic Nationalism and the Centralized State – By Raza Habib Raja »
The selective way of presenting history in Pakistan conveniently ignores the fact that at its creation, there were two large sometimes contrasting and sometimes overlapping movements. The first was primarily centred around Muslim Identity and tried to actually bargain a better position for its bearers. This movement though ended up in carving a separate homeland for the Muslims, nevertheless did not have that strong separatist thrust at least in the beginning. However, the Islamic identity itself was not the [...]
The Denial Of the Lambs By Anas Abbas »
Cross Post : Accounterterror blog By Anas Abbas This Essay is in response to an article “The liberal lynch mob” written by Mahreen Aziz Khan published recently in The Express Tribune. It will not only focus on this article itself but will mostly critically analyze the mindset behind such viewpoints and briefly look at the message in other such related articles for example “Get another passport” written by the famous “Flotilla Hulk”. Recently a horrifying video of a crowd watching a mob [...]
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Flood Devastations: “No Federal Assistance for Balochistan” »
QUETTA: Focal Person for Flood Relief Operation in Balochistan, Provincial Minister Prosecution Ms [...]
Lahore blasts deepen threat to foreign aid workers in Pakistan -by Issam Ahmed »
The Lahore blasts – though sectarian in nature – may raise the level of threat felt by the hundreds [...]
Floods and humanitarian medicine — by Dr Mohammad Taqi »
“Bani Adam aaza’ e yak o deegarand, Keh der aafreenesh ze yak gauharand. Choon uzvi ba dard [...]
Judicial Spot Fixing? »
This business of the Supreme Court taking it upon themselves to overrule the people's elected [...]
Triple Blasts in Youm e Ali(a.s) Procession: Karbala attacked in Lahore – by »
As the death toll from today's gruesome attacks on a Shiite procession commemorating the martyrdom of [...]
EDITORIAL: Extension of judges’ tenure »
The Supreme Court (SC) has extended the tenure of 32 additional judges working in the high courts of the [...]
Original Articles
US designates Pakistani Taliban as Foreign terrorist group
The US designated Pakistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) as Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), paving the way for overseas travel ban on its leaders and financial restrictions on the dreaded group. US prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base [...]
Altaf Bhai’s Convenient Conscience
Ayaz Amir hits the nail on the head last week in his column for The News, "Fresh takes on patriotism". Amir is annoyed with MQM chief Altaf's recent outbursts about martial law, of course, and flays them with the sharp wit that he has come to be known for, taking no mercy on Altaf's own political opportunism and turning a blind eye to corruption [...]
Canada Terror plot and the doctrine of armed Jihad – by Tarek Fatah and Salma Siddiqui
"Jihad is as much a primary duty as are daily prayers or fasting. One who avoids it is a sinner. His every claim to being a Muslim is doubtful. He is plainly a hypocrite who fails in the test of sincerity and all his acts of worship are a sham, a worthless, hollow show of deception." - Syed Maudoodi, spiritual leader of Canada's [...]
The international Day of Disappeared and the missing Balochs – by Imtiaz Baloch
The International Day of the Disappeared on August 30 is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives or legal representatives. In Balochistan, since 2005 there had been more than 8000 enforced disappearances including women and [...]
“What would you do, if someone’s gonna get shot” – by Faisal Raza
The games in ancient Rome are known as the bloodiest exhibition of public entertainment known to mankind when men, women and children flocked to coliseums to see blood thirsty fighters and gladiators killing the weaker among them, they even cheered them on and screamed for them to kill warrior lying almost dead on the ground, being gladiator [...]
Probe in Sialkot killings points finger at PML-N govt -by Irshad Salim
The ongoing investigation of the Sialkot brothers’ lynching in front of Rescue 1122 office has revealed that some police officials being named in the incident are not only pro- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), but that their role was a contributing factor in the enactment of the gory incident on August 15. These influential law [...]
Challenge to be converted into opportunity to build new Pakistan, says Gilani
* PM says political parties should overcome petty issues, stand together * Government did not divert focus from flood relief despite criticism The continuing floods were devastating to the country, but the government was committed to converting the massive challenge in an opportunity to build a new Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza [...]
Bollywood film takes on sexual harassment – by Shail Kumar Singh
Bollywood is tackling the subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, which campaigners say is increasingly becoming an issue as traditional gender roles change in modern urban India. “Hello Darling”, which was released on Friday, is inspired by the 1980 Hollywood comedy “Nine To Five” in which Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly [...]
Coming Of Age – M Usama Kabbir & Humza Ikram
There was a time when the Frontier Province was the scene of fiery political rivalry between Z.A.Bhutto and Wali Khan whereas now the former ANP and PPP are coalition partners at the Center as well as the Province. There was a time when the MQM’s violent tactics forced the PPP Government to pursue for a cleansing action against militant elements [...]
Altaf commits treason, should be sentenced under Article 6: Mian Iftikhar
Information Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that Altaf Hussain committed treason by issuing statement in favour of martial law and he should be sentenced under Article 6. In a media briefing in Peshawar, he said that that the MQM was actually the biggest follower of feudalism. He said that conspiracy was being hatched [...]
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Trust the IMF — by Farrukh Khan »
Terrible times require extreme measures but somehow Islamabad manages not to appreciate this reality. There is no harm in keeping one’s chin high and marching on in the hour of trouble. However, the gruesome realities of an unfortunate series of events should not be [Read More]
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- Final figures of FY2010 by Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi
- Stability or bankruptcy – by Dr Ashfaque H Khan
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Newspaper Article
Flood Devastations: “No Federal »
QUETTA: Focal Person for Flood Relief Operation in Balochistan, Provincial Minister Prosecution Ms Rahila Durrani, has said Federal Government did not provide adequate assistance to flood affected people of Balochistan and all the relief and rescue efforts are being [Read More]
More Newspaper Article Headlines
- Lahore blasts deepen threat to foreign aid workers in Pakistan -by Issam Ahmed
- Urdu Article: Flood Victims, Army Capatain and the Govt – by Nimer Ahmed
- Urdu Article: Why only Cricketers? – by Asif Mehmood
- Cricket as a metaphor – by Irfan Husain
- Floods and humanitarian medicine — by Dr Mohammad Taqi
- MQM’s strange recipe to end feudalism -by Riaz Missen
- Civil society urges for writing off external debt
- Betting allegations: Beyond the Facts – by Adnan Sipra
- Analogy between violence and media popularity – By Hassan Shehzad
- KP govt to pay forces Rs20m for helicopter operations – by Riaz Khan Daudzai
Non-Mainstream News
US designates Pakistani Taliban as »
The US designated Pakistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) as Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), paving the way for overseas travel ban on its leaders and financial restrictions on the dreaded group. US prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, [Read More]
More Non-Mainstream News Headlines
- EDITORIAL: Extension of judges’ tenure
- Challenge to be converted into opportunity to build new Pakistan, says Gilani
- Bollywood film takes on sexual harassment – by Shail Kumar Singh
- Altaf commits treason, should be sentenced under Article 6: Mian Iftikhar
- Three Christian humanitarian workers killed by Taliban
- “Ethical Codes for Media: Yes or No?”
- Hussain Haqqani says, Flood relief cooperation could be a turning point in the relations between Pak- US
- ANOTHER Ahmadi Muslim killed in Ramadan for his faith
- PPP and PML-N leaders flay Altaf’s statement
- Pakistan flood aid tops $800 mn, IMF chief assures president Zardari of support