Mazhar Arif |
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A lot of water has flown under the bridges since the 1970s. So many changes have occurred in politics and polity in Pakistan during the past three decades.
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2. Challenges
Pakistan is passing through interesting political atmosphere of, both, excitement and depression. On the surface, political...
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It was early 1970s, when Mir Chakar Khan Baloch made us familiar with Balochistan, its people, its leaders and their struggle for their national rights. Chakar Khan used to publish monthly the ‘Baloc... | ||
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The founder of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, will be praised by many, and may be cursed by others, for giving hope...
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5. PPP and PTI
At a talk show on the Express News channel---aired on November 30--- anchored by Kamran Shahid, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan was cornered by ...
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Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulifqar Mirza’s recent diatribe against Muthida Qaumi Movement (MQM), and his own Pakistan Peoples Party’s federal interior minister Mr Rehman Malik, has stunned politi... | ||
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S. Akbar Zaidi, a well-known political and social scientist, in his recently published book “Military, Civil Society and Democratization in Pakistan”, while exploring...
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“The surface quiet of the Supreme Court was shattered by the scream of an ordinary citizen on Monday this week. Lawyers, politicians, famous plaintiffs and defendants were stopped short in their trac... | ||
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The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty.
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After the Abbottabad Operation by American commandos to kill Osama bin Laden and then militants attack at PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi, the callous murder of a high profile journalist has shaken th... | ||
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Irony of fate has struck again. ‘Civilians will take lead in handling the fallout’ of Abbottabad’s happening. Meaning that the civilian government, led by the Pakistan Peoples Party, will be bail... | ||
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It must not be surprising today that socio-political discourse in Pakistan has been turned into mullah’s domain. Notwithstanding the apparent opposition by some religio-political parties and Muslim rel... | ||
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Pakistan has a population of over 160 million, made up of a complex mix of indigenous / tribal peoples and successive waves of migrants. The national language is Urdu. English is an official language and... | ||
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On March 16, an additional district and session judge acquitted CIA contractor Raymond Davis in a double murder case and ordered his immediate release after the legal heirs of the two victims accepted bl... | ||
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16. “Shoot us”
On the sad assassination of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, a journalist, Jahanzaib Haque, commented on a blog, “The time for change has come. Please just arrest me if necessary …, but do something! M... | ||
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"Nation and press rise and fall together” is an old saying. Rise and fall of the press, now generally called media, can not be judged in isolation. If the society on the whole is on decline, the press,... | ||
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