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The judges of higher court and especially the chief justice of Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan earned huge following and respect during the movement for independence...
#The media were frantic much before the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani arrived at the Supreme Court. There was a sharp division between the PPP supporters and...
At the onset, I would like to make this thing clear that I have contrasting views on two recent executive judiciary standoffs: Memogate and the NRO verdict. The ...
Of all the three organs of the state, judiciary is supposed to play a vital role for sustaining democracy and rule of law in the country. Judiciary elaborates the hidden...
‘Many of the problems that we face today in terms of the structure of the state, the way it has developed and how the power balance has been disparate, there is a contribution of the judiciary in tha...
The Domestic Violence Bill was first introduced in Pakistan’s National Assembly in 2006 by a woman member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Sherry Rehman, currently Pakistan’s Ambassador to ...
When Winston Churchill in his August 24, 1941 speech described the extermination of the Jews and Jewish Bolshevists by the Nazis in the occupied Soviet territories, his vivid depiction of the “method...
The number of cases of resistance in China continues to grow. Protests both large and small are an extremely frequent occurrence in China. They range in scale and nature from workers’ protests agains...
#Every year, thousands of articles, news stories and features appear on May Day. These expose the gloomy plight of laborers in mines, brick kilns, factories and other industries. Yet there is one indust...
On May 13, 2012, the Egyptian Court of Appeals will consider the sentence of two years imprisonment against four socialist militants and co-founding members of The Socialist Popular Alliance Party SPAP...
Since the  entire  policy  of  the  British  was  based  on Islam, therefore, it is important to record the diaries in detail. This will further inform the peopl...
After Vladimir Putin was elected president in the first round on March 4, the massive movement which had arisen and which reached its highest degree of mobilization in December found itself in a compli...
This is a transcript of one of the two main interviews during Radio Tahrir, a marathon looking back on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movement, live recorded at the Kaaitheather,&nbs...
The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to have sent an unequivocal message to current leaders: that great office confers no immunity. In fact it sent two messages: i...
For a person of Jewish descent, there are two ways of drawing lessons from the Nazi genocide of the European Jews: one leads to saying "Never again to us, the Jews" and the other "Never again" tout cou...
There is no finer mark of a Pakistani man than a fully oiled, waxed and twirled moustache. For 18 years, Amir Muhammad Afridi’s vast handlebar moustache, curling as high as his forehead, made him a c...
A swarm of criticism has been leveled against Mona Eltahawy's recent Foreign Policy cover story on the state of women in the Arab world. Some of it has been ridiculous, like Samia Errazzouki's allegatio...
Now and then, as though out of sheer boredom, the United States shoots itself in the foot and loses the occasional goodwill it creates with aid programmes. Consider the latest: Secretary Hilary Clinton...
Turn on the TV. There is breaking news about a 16-year-old girl who has gone missing. A few hours later, we learn that the abductors have contacted the missing girl's parents. The abductors, according ...
A comedian who poked fun at the Taliban's practice of apprehending thieves and meting out summary punishment to them was kidnapped from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan while he was entertaining guests a...
As International Labour Day approaches, rights groups in Pakistan are redoubling their efforts to win freedom for six incarcerated union leaders in Faisalabad, the country’s textile hub, who are curr...
In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasur...
Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with...
I was in a Bangkok criminal court yesterday to show solidarity with Samyot Prueksakasemsuk, a Thai labour activist and editor of Voice of Thaksin. He is been charged to defame, insult or threaten the K...
#A couple of weeks ago, after the high-profile acid-burn victim Fakhra Yunus committed suicide, Javed Chaudry wrote an appalling op-ed...
In the ‘Press Freedom Index’ for 2011, issued by the ‘Reporters without Borders’ every year, Pakistan ranks a dismal 151 out of 179 countries evaluated...
Prominent scholar Edward Said, an advocate of the Palestinian cause, a professor of literature at Columbia University, a critic who wrote...
The Colony Textile Mills carnage was one of the most gruesome events in the trade union history of Multan. After the military coup of July 05, 1977, General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the government as...
Pakistan is in the throes of an existential crisis. Pakistan has always been in the throes of an existential crisis. Pakistan’s interminable existential crisis is, in fact, getting to be a bore....
About a fortnight back, Bilawal Zardari and Rahul Gandhi re-discovered each other, though not much to the world’s surprise. There are old family links, a political dynasty with a bloody past and pol...
“I don’t hold anybody responsible for the brutal murder of my sister but the provincial Balochistan government and the Pakistani spy agency, ISI", says Yazdan Salimi, a young Hazara man. He lost a ...
The British operated on two levels. First they used physical force and, secondly, material resources to overturn the Khudai Khidmatgar Movement. They were confident of crushing the movement with Govern...
Recorded human history stands witness that since the time immemorial, people around the world have created many glorious civilizations based on their spiritual beliefs, cultural customs and traditions ...
While developmental theorists rely heavily on analysis of macro and micro economic theories and developmental sequencing, not much attention is paid to the undeniable linkage between the post seventies...
The last few weeks have seen a shocking increase in the Shia killings in Gilgit Baltistan and Balochistan...
The onerous challenge faced by every commercial entity in consumer capital era is “staying relevant”. When thrust for...
After a lull, the al-Qaeda and the Taliban terrorists have re-launched attacks in Pakistan. These attacks falsify the myth that...
In Pakistan privilege doesn’t necessarily come from the ownership of capital, industry, and large of holding of cultivatable land but through control of the state apparatus. It is, therefore, not sup...
Despite the Chinese media framing the sacking of the populist regional party chief as a success in the battle against corruption and “incompetence”, it seems that what is really driving Bo’s down...
This is a big political issue for reasons which are not difficult to understand. All the mainstream parties are getting into the action, including the PMLN which is the party in power in the Punjab pro...
On March 30th, 43-year-old Master Abdul Qudoos lost the battle of his life in Rabwah, Pakistan. He did not die of a heart attack, nor did he die of a fatal accident, n...
To protest against growing sectarian violence and forced conversions of non-Muslim young women (recent case of Rinkle Kumari can be referred here), the Sindh Progressive Committee (SPC) held a peaceful...
If the British policy is closely examined, it becomes apparent that it was based on generating hatred between Muslims and Hindus. In pursuing this policy the Khudai Khidmatgar movement was a polit...
Ahmed Ben Bella had spent more than 21 years of his life in jail: 6 years in French prisons (1956-1962) and 15 years after he was overthrown in Algeria on 19 June 1965 by a military coup led by Colonel...
The Bollywood movie The Dirty Picture (apparently) runs on three things: entertainment, entertainment and entertainment. The dirty picture of neoliberalism runs on three things, as well: class, class, ...
There’s no election quite like a French presidential contest. It is a six-month-long race in which nearly every political stable usually has a runner and where the handicapping system is less rigged ...
Rupak and Ajay are both 20 years old, both Maoist militants in Kathmandu, and both believe that communism can save the world. “Civil war was necessary for our country,” said Ajay. “We won it...
#Cosmology is a strange science, which seeks to describe and understand the nature of the Universe as a whole, from its first moments to its last. Its creation cannot be reproduced through experiments: ...
For the past many weeks the parliament of Pakistan and its committee, the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PNCS), is apparently engaged with an exercise...
President Asif Ali Zardari visited India recently, the first Pakistani President to do so in seven years. However, the positive vibes expected at home could not materialize because...
Whether Husain Haqqani gets justice or not, the Memogate debacle is a watershed moment for Pakistan’s Civil-Military balance and a historic opportunity for the proponents...
Contrary to rest of the Sunni-dominated country, Shias are in majority in the GB where Pakistani establishment has been accused of the denial of legitimate rights of this vast majority by imposing pro...
#A few days back, a rather naïve and romantic blog appeared on Tribune’s website, posted by a would-be Pakistani American bride of some American Catholic. My heartiest congratulations to the couple b...
Hafiz Saeed is back in global limelight. Call it an exceedingly clever or extremely stupid move, the USA first placed a $10 million bounty for providing a clue to his whereabouts and later, US State D...
The world is as violent and conflict ridden as ever and there is no sign that efforts or dream of universal peace will materialize anytime sooner or later. Poor leadership, shortsightedness and greed m...
The bill is simple: men should stop punching their wives and kids. One might think it's one of those issues that we can all agree upon. How can something so obviously noble and undeniably imperative to...
Just as the transition of military responsibility, including handing over of the special operations that incorporate the controversial night raids, from the United States and allied forces to the Afgha...
“In 1947 India and Pakistan were born to conflict.” This is the first line on the flap and gist of Stanley Wolport’s latest book India-Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation. His assessment i...
Until this time the British were determined to stay in India. In London, the Secretary of State was worried about the Viceroy's favouritism towards Jinnah. A man so aggressive and unreasonable, may, in...
It was almost 40 years ago that we lost major part of our country. Every year we write a few articles on that day and then forget it for the next year. We are not ready to learn the causes of this trag...
68. Inja
George Galloway’s stunning electoral triumph in the Bradford by-election on Thursday, March 29, 2012, has shaken the petrified world of English politics. It was unexpected and for that reason the Res...
In a packed agricultural hanger in a rural town in central France, an enraptured crowd raised their fists and chanted: "Resistance! Resistance!" On stage, arms flung wide, sweat pouring down his face, ...
Two months before President Asif Zardari's unexpected visit to India, a newly formed political alliance, the Council to Defend Pakistan, unveiled its slogan. "What is our relationship with India?" it as...
Lakshmi and his wife Rama, from Warangal district in the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, were tired of rolling thousands of bidis (aromatic cigarettes) 12 hours a day, to earn 70 ...
Nigeria, described as a “democrazy” because of its chaotic society (1), has produced a monster — Boko Haram. This began in the northeast about a decade ago as an anti-government religious mo...
#One often hears a hijaban (especially the Arabised Pakistani females) justifying her headgear as an act of modesty and purity which 'protects'...
#Balochistan has been experiencing two types of target killings; one is directed against the settlers (mostly Punjabi and Urdu speaking people) and the other is directed against the activists of the nat...
#One breach of the marriage contract, one little extramarital affair eventually led Willy Loman – play writer Arthur Miller’s hero in his famous...
#The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) decided to block all pornographic content from the internet October last year.
The first scene takes place in a small village of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where a few hundred men have gathered to celebrate Kaleeza. People come on stage to give speeches, recite poetry or sin...
Al-Qaeda, the most dreaded terrorist network of religious extremists is not a single outfit but a group or an umbrella organisation for all the elements that utilize garb of religious ideology in order...
Balochistan is the Pakistan’s restive province where movement for right to self-determination is going on since 1948. Last month, at a hearing of the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs, fo...
Malalai Joya is one of the delegates who came from Afghanistan. Born a few days before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, taught in underground schoo...
When Gandhiji's letter to the Government of India did not achieve any result, he wrote directly from his prison cell to Mr Jinnah. At that time Prime Minister Churchill was on a tour of the United Stat...
“Like clothes which become wasteful after its use, religion with the passage of time becomes extravagant”. Before declaring any verdict on this proposition, it would be more prudent to have a ...
The petition itself, though littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, is poisonous drivel supposedly to terrorise into silence the journalists, media persons and activists associated or ...
While the Indians were prompt in setting up an Inquiry Commission into the Kargil fracas, we in  Pakistan  found it expedient to bury the affair in 'national interest'.  Compared to the ...
So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we're going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi one, which is a ...
In the town of Ségou in south-central Mali, Salif Kanté is grappling with the increased costs of basic cereals. ‘I recently purchased my family’s food stock for 2012. I spent almost twice as much...
A very well placed friend in Islamabad who is rarely wrong told me yesterday that Deputy Director General ISI Major General Asfandyar Pataudi personally went to tell the Supreme Court judge to deny Hus...
According to Wikipedia (which is almost as reliable a source as Zaid Hamid himself), Zaid Hamid was born in Karachi on March 14, 1964.
Hafiz Saeed, the “Amir” of Jamaat Ud Dawaa (JUD) is India’s most wanted man. The JUD is a charity organization banned in Pakistan for...
People like Zaid Hamid are said to be the best people and real lovers of our religion. But our past tells that they cannot survive for long. I can provide...
#According to a news item (The News Jan. 28, 2012), The Pakistan Center for Philanthropy (PCP) ranked a cement company of Pakistan among top 10 national philanthropists out of 532 public listed companie...
The HEC either did not bother to check his record or, after checking it, decided that he truly deserved it.  In either case, given that I had expressed reservations about his credentials, I ought ...
#This division of labour is classical patriarchal narrative often touted by Zaid Hamid. In the course of this very program, we have heard about Atiya Faizi, Iqbal's friend from Europe. Atiya Faizi was a...
Ii is taken for granted that the upheavals in much of the Middle East — and great-power decisions about which conflicts are worthy of “humanitarian intervention” and/or “regime change” — ha...
Undoubtedly, no sensible person can deny that burning copies of the Holy Quran or divine scripture of any other religion is a very despicable and deplorable act. However, recorded history stands witnes...
Gandhiji and all other Congress leaders were in prison. When Gandhiji started his fast there was a nationwide movement for his freedom. In a letter to the Government, Gandhiji said that the Congress ha...
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