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God, Qazi Anwar and I – by Hakim Hazik
Extraordinary Rendition
By: Hakim Hazik
Source: Justice Denied
We don’t need bread, we need ideology. We don’t need a country, we need a religion. We don’t want our children to go to school, get qualifications and live in prosperity. We want them to go to the madrassa, learn to recite the qaida with gentle rocking movements, become [...]
In defence of the UN Commission Report on Benazir Bhutto’s murder – by Hamid Mir
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The outcome of fighting the footsoldiers and mentoring the masterminds
Can there be an end to this war? — by Daud Khattak
Friday’s attack on a convoy of army soldiers in North Waziristan and the fresh wave of violence in parts of the newly-renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa signifies that armed Taliban are still as powerful as they were before the launch of the much-hyped military operations in [...]
Media wars in Pakistan — by Shahzad Chaudhry
Along with projecting oneself as a peacenik, bashing the military is the easiest route to establishing the credentials of intellectual elitism in the overly expressive socio-political environment of Pakistan
An electronic media explosion in this country has thrust open the need for presenters and experts, and they both are not easy to find. The number of [...]
Slow and painful death of the Left movement in Pakistan
Left fortunes
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif raised a very important question while addressing the International Literary and Cultural Conference in Lahore the other day. He pointed out that inequitable and unjust distribution of resources has brought Pakistan to the present pass. Questioning the silence of the intellectuals who had vowed to bring a revolution in [...]
Hypocrisy, self-centred delusion, or a simple case of Islamism now losing its bearings? – by Nadeem Paracha
Lost bearings?
A few weeks ago a young lady wrote a moving blog for dawn.com called ‘Confessions of a hijabi,’ she predictably rambled on about how painful it has been for her to hold on to her hijab in the face of taunts by the people around her.
The event that inspired her to write this piece [...]
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