Posts Tagged ‘LUBP’

Apparently Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has made a Twitter account (@TehreekeTaliban) for their Jihadi-sectarian propaganda on social media and also to harass their perceived opponents. While we have no means to confirm the genuineness of this account, the tweets so far seem to be consistent with Pakistani Taliban's ideology and operations [...]

A popular Pakistani blog, Let us Build Pakistan (LUBP) describes itself as “critical PPP”. Recently, this blog has posted some articles against Ms. Sherry Rehman who was a close aide of Former prime minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. In one of the posts LUBP says: “In 2011, Sherry and pro-establishment journalist, Nasim Zehra used the [...]

Related post: Who is international professor? Editor's note: Our long-time friend Earthman, International Professor has written yet another critical article on LUBP "exposing" our editors and authors' secret connections with Mahdi Army Terrorists. LUBP readers will recall that previously this man wrote a critical article on LUBP in May 2010 [...]

We are cross-posting this old article (originally published on Pak Tea House on November 8th, 2010) for archiving purposes. Written by Mr. Ali K. Chishti, the original title of the article "The real agenda of LUBP Fascists" was later changed to "More on the Sherry Rehman saga – LUBP Wallahs and PTH". The reason for cross-posting now is we are [...]

Related posts: Deconstructing Pakistani liberals: A response to Shashi Tharoor and Raza Rumi Censorship tactics and the ‘unity of liberals' - by Alamdar Mengal The liberal fiasco in Pakistan – by Suleman Akhtar ****** I was motivated to write this post after listening to Imran Khan's interview on BBC [...]

The national media in Pakistan has become too sordid and boring despite the freedom it had to turn itself into credibility amongst its audience; apparently it has lost it. Because people like me no more watch the talk shows once we were addicted to. The articles in newspapers are of unlimited repetition and pretension. On the other hand is the [...]

Editor's note: LUBP has received some critical comments on Laibaah's post titled "Najam Sethi’s role in the Baloch resistance movement of 1970s" and also via Twitter which suggest that the assertions in that post about Mr. Sethi's role in Balochistan are factually incorrect and misleading. To demonstrate our belief in free speech and [...]

LUBP is pleased to publish the following lecture (video) and the associated talk by Dr. Taimur Rahman which presents Laal's brave, principled stance on religious extremism and terrorism in Pakistan and the wider [...]

    LUBP Editors express their profound grief over the demise of Hamid Akhtar, veteran progressive scholar, activist and columnist. In the last few years, we have always supported, valued and published Mr. Akhtar's bold columns which were originally published in Daily Express and some other newspapers. His support for [...]

The recent Predator strike against American-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki has more significance than many in the press have given it. Even accounts on al-Jazeera quickly dismiss any change in al Qaeda threat. Fair enough, we should all still be vigilant, but there is little attention given to the real U.S.war of disruption-as-strategy. The [...]

 LUBP editors, writers and supporters are often harassed and falsely accused for engaging in personal attacks, abuse, ISI-tagging and using pen names. Such accusations are also hurled at other bloggers and writers who take a bold, anti-establishment stance (e.g. our friends working for Hazara, Ahmadi, Pashtun and Baloch rights). Here is our [...]

Announcement LUBP website (www.criticalppp.com) will be down for necessary maintenance for a few hours today, Thursday, 1 September 2011, 4:00PM USA Eastern Time, which is equivalent to Friday, 2 September 2011, 1:00AM Pakistan Time. Please do not post any new comments or articles during the maintenance hours. Feel free to send your [...]

Editor's Disclaimer: While we may not agree with some of the contentions offered in this post, we wholeheartedly support the principle of Free Speech and condemn those fascists who ganged up to silence Laiba Marri's voice on Twitter .......... "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" [...]

Related : Revisiting Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s trial – by Amna Paracha Amna Paracha was Begum Nusrat Bhutto’s political secretary through the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's trial. Her husband (late) Saleem Zulfiqar Khan was on the original defence bench. Mr Khan was a close confidant of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and worked closely with her for [...]

Related post: LUBP agenda, visitor stats and the way forward When I started to blog, almost by accident, a few Pakistani bloggers were found in cyberspace. Within half a decade the number has multiplied beyond belief. From the senior writers to young students, blogging is now an avenue that allows forunfettered self-expression and also puts [...]

As things stand now, your defense of the Zardari league that PPP has become is very disappointing. I have been following your blog for some time and and have even emailed and DMed my views to your editors and writers concerning this. Why are you all not writing more critical posts on Zardari! It seems that PPP is now speaking the voice of the [...]

Related articles: Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP) exposed – by Earthman, International Professor An open letter to LUBP – by Samad Khurram Critical article on ‘Let us build Pakistan’ – by Syed Adeeb LUBP agenda, visitor stats and the way forward Editor's note: The following letter by one of LUBP's numerous 'friends' is currently [...]

The LUBP editors and authors come under some sort of slack over the last few weeks for allegedly "character assassinating potential allies" (who we consider as back-stabbers) and “inciting killing civil society members” (who we consider as Fake Civil Society (FCS)). We have been dubbed as “Zardaris Pitthus”, “Let Us Destroy Pakistan” [...]

Author, journalist, ad man, technical writer, political activist and family man, Tarek Fatah stands as a prominent opponent of Islamofascism today.  From confronting the IJT thugs of Karachi University in the late 1960s to taking on the lobbyists of the Muslim Brotherhood and Khomeini in Canada, Tarek represents one of the few voices of sanity in [...]

Related Interviews:   LUBP Exclusive: A critical interview with Nadeem F. Paracha LUBP Interview with Kamran Shafi LUBP Interview with Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (Part I) LUBP Interview with Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (Part II)   Brief Introduction: LUBP is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Mr. Olaf Kellerhoff Resident [...]

Previous LUBP Interviews with Nadeem F Paracha with Kamran Shafi Introduction LUBP is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Pakistan’s leading political commentator and military analyst, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Dr. Siddiqa is a regular op-ed contributor to leading Pakistani newspapers. She did her doctorate from King's [...]

Related article: LUBP Exclusive: A critical interview with Nadeem F. Paracha LUBP is pleased to publish an exclusive interview with Kamran Shafi, one of the boldest voices in Pakistani media particularly because of his courage to write against the Dark Lords of Pakistan, 'Those Who Must Not Be Named.'   Mr Shafi is a leading [...]

Dear LUBPians, First of all, a big THANK YOU for your ongoing support to the LUBP project. Here is an update on LUBP visitor statistics which you may find reassuring. In the last two months alone (Oct-Nov 2010), we have received about 100,000 absolute unique visitors to our website. The total number of visits is much higher than this [...]

Nadeem F. Paracha is a cultural critic and senior columnist for Dawn Newspaper and Dawn.com. Here is his exclusive interview for LUBP, which is being published as the first interview in the LUBP Critical Interview Series. LUBP: Nadeem, thanks for taking out the time to interview with us. Tell us about your background in politics and your [...]

Nugget 1 Sheen Alif recently asked: The progressive blog should come clear on how they view the Baloch insurgency, as publishing a piece on Lala Hameed Baloch and another condemning BLA just on assumptions in one breath is not fair. She was referring to the following two articles posted on LUBP on the same day: The death of Lala Hameed [...]

We welcome Raza Rumi's reconciliatory post which he has written on behalf of the Pak Tea House (PTH) blog. Below is a copy of Raza's post and my response: Our apology to LUBP wallas - by Raza Rumi Source: http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/our-unconditional-apology-to-lubp-wallas/ PTH apologises to LUBP its editors, authors and [...]

We have recently learnt about the ban on Balochistan’s first online English newspaper, The Baloch Hal, by the military establishment of Pakistan. Our dear friend, Malik Siraj Akbar, is the Editor-in-Chief of this excellent online newspaper. The Baloch Hal in my view is a credible Baloch nationalist website, which highlights issues of identity [...]

Related Articles: In criticism of LUBP – by Raza Habib Raja Much more than a petition: A critical view on the PTH-LUBP differences – by Qudsia Siddiqui Pak Tea House’s criticism of LUBP Adil Najam and his pseudo-liberals’ outpouring of sympathy for Sherry Rehman – by Sarah Khan Only thing sad about jokes is that they are [...]

Previously published as Setting the Record Straight: What it Really Means to be A Critical Supporter, this post is being cross-posted from Pak Tea House, an excellent pro-PPP and pro-secularism blog. We thank the author for his candid criticism of the LUBP and encourage our readers to engage in a constructive debate on this topic. (Abdul [...]

Related article: Much more than a petition: A critical view on the PTH-LUBP differences – by Qudsia Siddiqui Do we need parental guidance on blogging? An open letter to Pak Tea House and Pakistani blogging community – by Ali Raja Cross-posted from Pak Tea House (Our friends at LUBP have asked us to respond to their libel with an open [...]

Related articles: Pak Tea House’s criticism of LUBP Adil Najam and his pseudo-liberals’ outpouring of sympathy for Sherry Rehman – by Sarah Khan Response by PTH: The (misplaced) wrath of the LUBP hardliners – by Yasser Latif Hamdani Some time back, I was encouraged by my young nephew to contribute to Pak Tea House (PTH) blog. [...]

Related articles: Do we need parental guidance on blogging? An open letter to Pak Tea House and Pakistani blogging community – by Ali Raja Much more than a petition: A critical view on the PTH-LUBP differences – by Qudsia Siddiqui The (misplaced) wrath of the LUBP hardliners – by Yasser Latif Hamdani On 4 November, Pak Tea [...]

Chief of the cyber wing of Pakistan's urban-centric pseudo-liberals, Adil Najam, has once again posted an article on his website (All Things Pakistan) which, as usual, speaks of his and the (fake) civil society's political opacity, intellectual dishonesty and selective morality against the PPP. In the article, posted by the ATP team (why did [...]

Recently there have been a number of critical views expressed regarding LUBP's editorial policy and alleged intolerance of criticism of the PPP. Nothing could be further from the truth. This blog is dedicated to the principle of freedom of speech and welcomes contributions from all sides of the political spectrum as well as rebuttals of articles [...]

First part of this article: Another pseudo-liberal muck-raking of the PPP: So what’s new? – by Qudsia Siddiqui Firstly, thanks to the LUBP for accepting my post. I was heartened to see blogs like this one and Pakistan Media Watch, Café Pyala and Pak Tea House provide some form of liberal discourse. However, I was disappointed that [...]

Lately it has been suggested by a few commentators on this blog, forum and elsewhere that the LUBP is a blog critical of Islam (or religion, in general), and has a la-deen (wrong translation of secular) orientation. Nothing could be further from truth. Team LUBP (its editors, authors and visitors) comprise individuals who are diverse in their [...]

Pakistan Peoples’ Party is known to date to be a party of the masses and indeed the peoples’. Though it is a cumbersome task to be in constant contact with all of the 18 crore Pakistanis but the supporters and leaders of the Party are keen in developing this by using a certain medium of technology. Many of PPP’s ministers today have tried [...]

Former senator and Baluchistan National Party Mengal (BNP) leader Habib Jalib was shot dead on Saryab Road in Quetta. Habib Jalib was ambushed by unidentified gunmen on Saryab Road. He was taken to the Civil Hospital Quetta where he succumbed to the injuries. A large number of BNP Mengal workers and family members of the senator gathered outside [...]

Freedom of expression is a right to express what an individual feels. There is a divine right to speak out. What are requirements for such freedom? 1. A liberal and tolerant society. 2. A state which does not oppress people for speaking out. 3. The tolerance in masses which are ready to take such expression as a different view, not [...]