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Eric Margolis:‘Studies conducted by the Rand Corporation estimate...a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would initially kill 2 million people, cause 100 million causalities, and contaminate... | ||
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‘I would say if we understand socialism as Marx saw it as the self emancipation of the working class it has to be about mass popular democracy. If it hangs on a few good - or bad - practitioners it i... | ||
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‘Overall, it is important for the Left to support the ongoing struggles in the revolutions as the contradictions of the new regimes continue to sharpen,’ says Adam Hanieh. Adam Hanieh is a Lecturer... | ||
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7. Hegemony
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Politicisation of religion is not merely restricted to Muslims in South and Southeast Asia. Revivalist Hindu and Buddhist political projects have equally exploited the faith. The Politics of Religion i... | ||
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The Jamaat-e-Islami was a brainchild of Maulana Maudodi (1903-1979). His views bear an extraordinary resemblance to the ideas of seventeenth...
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Islam and secularism are totally compatible, as is any religion practiced in its true sense. Syria, Libya and Iraq earlier did try to develop as secular states keeping religion out of politics. Last mo... | ||
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Since independence from France in 1956, Tunisians participated in free multiparty elections for the first time on Oct 23. This is thanks to the revolution earlier this year that has not merely heralded... | ||
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‘The last couple of weeks preceding the elections were extremely important as far as the future of the revolution and that of the country are concerned. The elections were accompanied by a lot of fea... | ||
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On coming to power, the first PPP government, headed by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, went for nationalization in three phases...
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15. Ghazi on screen
In 1978, Lollywood first began to take up Ilam Din and blasphemy as a theme with Ghazi Ilam Din, a G&S Co. production. The Punjabi-language...
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In an essay titled ‘Whose war is this?’ (Viewpoint issue#69), Nayyer Khan has candidly falsified claims by media and ‘politicians like Imran Khan’ that by being involved in the “war on terror... | ||
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There is a great deal in their earlier book, Empire, that is very good but I don’t believe some of their fundamental premises are at all tenable. For instance, it is simply not true that nation-state... | ||
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Saudi-style free market is at its best in media industry where, according to a media expert, ‘Mickey Mouse, the Spice Girls and Koran collide’ literally. There was a televisual revolution in terms.... | ||
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Warning: I am writing this piece out of irritation. I think irritation is pretty legitimate inspiration under irritating times.
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Military's domination of the society does not end with the end of direct military rule. In Pakistan's case the military represents one of the two key poles of power politics. Continued domination in po... | ||
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25. Tariq Ali
This is a question I was asked first time in Amsterdam back in November 1999 when I went to attend a month-long socialist school at Mandel Study Centre, Amsterdam.
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26. Oslo tragedy
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In the beginning of the 1960s, there were a couple of hundred NGOs on the go internationally. Now there are more or less 29,000. The rich countries are distributing one-fifth...
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Soon after ‘Aik Aur Ghazi’ was premiered, I went to Shabistan cinema at Lahore’s famous Abbott Road, to watch your film. Not because I am any fan of your run-of-the-mill, below-average production... | ||
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29. Aik aur Ghazi
First an anecdote. Friend and colleague Moeen Azhar was president of the Lahore Press Club. In his office at the Lahore Press Club, we were chit-chatting on a fine autumn evening back in 2003. A young ... | ||
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On June 26, the electorate in Azad Jammu and Kashmir voted to elect 49-member Legislative Assembly. In fact, the voters elect 41 members, another eight slots reserved for women (5), Ulema (1), Overseas... | ||
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In the 1980s, every genre of the Pakistan Television (PTV) programmes began to accommodate, belligerently, themes that were either outright religious or carried religious connotations. For instance, Al... | ||
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32. Media madness
Honesty is the soul of credibility while truth is credibility personified. Credibility for any media outlet is what faith is to a believer. It is a battle media have to continuously fight. Nothing dam... | ||
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Media outlets from the Dawn Media Group, Pakistans leading media house, published the first set of WikiLeaks files relating to Pakistan on May 20. The leaked US cables revealed that the Pakistani milit... | ||
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The strategic depth doctrine Pakistan's military adopted back in 1980s, is proving Eskimos'knife for Pakistan. In the first place, this imperialist doctrine is ethically as repugnant as US occupation o... | ||
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36. Che in Tunis
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'Family tragedy indeed is the main attraction that continues to draw mass support to the Bhutto dynasty,’ says Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed. A Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University. he is... | ||
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39. Nasir
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The media are hugely important as industries producing symbolic goods that can be broadly classified into entertainment and news. As entertainment goods, whether reality tv programmes or Hollywood blo... | ||
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The sensational killing of al-Qaida’s figurehead king, Osama bin Laden, at a well-guarded compound in the scenic Abbottabad valley is incredible in many ways. Outside of Pakistan, it is incredible to b... | ||
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“Young innocent minds are systematically indoctrinated to believe in making the ultimate sacrifice by offering their life for what they could get in the hereafter” says Maqbool A. Babri alias Max B... | ||
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“What audiences find interesting is not something that comes naturally. The media can awake interest in something if they work on it,” says Serge Halimi. In this age of internet, he thinks, we ... | ||
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It was a talk show as usual. Asma Jahangir was debating Ansar Abassi and Haroon ur Rasheed. But Asma was not present in the studios; she was a phone-in guest. She had begun speaking, but hardly managed a... | ||
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“In Pakistan there are many violent deaths to mourn. Do we need to decide whose deaths we wish to mourn the most? Is a governor who speaks out against Blasphemy laws more important than two ISI agents ... | ||
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Like millions around the globe, I find the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela inspiring and your ‘socialism of 21st century’ indeed motivating. I, therefore, did not hesitate in endorsing your call f... | ||
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Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest town and idiomatic cultural heart of the country, once took pride in its vibrant film industry. On the pattern of Indian Bollywood and Hong Kong’s Dongfang Haolaiw... | ||
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The New York Time’s Robert Worth, writing about Saudi worries over Arab revolutions, reports how ‘the Saudis felt that Mr. Mubarak should have been allowed to stay on and make a more “dignified” ... | ||
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53. Bad Marxism
In an essay, posted on Viewpoint (Jan 27, online issue 38), Kashif Baloch has eulogised the liberating role of global media, though in a subtle way. “The globalized audiences, on the other hand, a... | ||
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“Most people who read international news still get it from the major imperial powers' news agencies, delivered in the languages of conquest,” says Toby Miller. In an interview with Viewpoint, he ex... | ||
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56. Whither Egypt?
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"Can Mubarak be toppled?" asks BBC’s Jon Leyne (January 27). Henry Clinton, even when two deaths and 1500 arrests had already been reported, replied almost a day later: "Our assessment is that the Egyp... | ||
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On January 4, Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s largest province, was gunned down by his own security guard, Mumtaz Qadri. Salman Taseer was campaigning to reform country’s blasphemy laws. His ad... | ||
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When Burmese leader Aung Sang Su Kyi was recently released, she paid rich tributes to leader of the Indian liberation movement, Mahatma Gandhi. Not very long ago, Barack Obama said if given a chance... | ||
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After seizing the leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari (AAZ) stunned many when he was seen hosting a Socialist International Asia-Pacific meeting in Islamabad on May 30. It was... | ||
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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was keen to recruit Habib Jalib for his newly-formed Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Jalib was a member of National Awami Party, or NAP, as many communists were at the time. Wh... | ||
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Distance to London from Karachi is no longer measured in nautical miles. Now London is roughly six-hours from Karachi. The communication revolution by imploding the experience of distance has transformed... | ||
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65. The vanguard
The left movement in Pakistan is a disable child of Indian communism. The same is true of the trade union movement in Pakistan. The Indian communist movement was an inspiration from Russian revolutions o... | ||
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When in power, Taliban were perhaps relatively popular in Pakistan even if hated in Afghanistan. In the wake of 9/11, Taliban have won an awkward lover in a left-gone-awry. When Pakistan’s media, Islam... | ||
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I heard you talking to Junaid Jamshed during ‘Hayya al Falah’ aired by Geo TV (Aug 19). Once a star singer, this leading born-again Muslim often boasts of being your disciple. In the programme mentio... | ||
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We now know that as soon as human beings could clothe and feed themselves, they played. Sports is as human an act as music, dance, or organising resistance”, says Dave Zirin, author of ‘The People... | ||
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