Misogyny of Asfandyar Wali Khan: Dear Mian Nawaz Sharif: I am more loyal to you than Mahmood Khan Achakzai. Yours truly, Asfandyar Wali Khan In his speech to the ANP workers convention (8 Sep 2014), ANP’s Asfandyar Wali Khan spoke like a Deobandi sectarian
On moon-sighting and national standardization: Standardization of all types, from language to education curricula (or moon sighting in Pakistan), is an existential concomitant of the modern bureaucratic state. Standardized national languages have more to do with, in Gellner’s words, the ‘high culture’ of
Karachi : Enter Deobandi TTP – by Zia Ur Rehman: They came in trickles and floods; as individuals, whole families, and entire caravans. Fleeing the insurgencies and operations in their homes, displaced persons from various parts of FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sought refuge in Karachi as well as other
Iftekharuddin: The sole rebel – by Waseem Altaf: After the creation of the dominion of Pakistan on Aug 15, 1947, within a short span, the secular and liberal elements in the Muslim League gradually lost the battle for a progressive and modern Pakistan, while the delusional right-wingers,
Secularism Leading to Islamism – by Tufail Ahmad: In South Asia, Islamist forces emerge out of the womb of secularism, or the practice and politics of it. In 2008, secular leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party and Awami National Party, which came to power in Islamabad and
APC: peace consensus or sell-out? – by Zahid Hussain: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chairing the All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad on September 9, 2013.— File photo Published 2013-09-11 06:03:15 THE resolution emanating from Monday’s all-parties conference seems more of a document of surrender than an expression of a
الیکشن کے بعد کا پاکستان – از حق گو: گیارہ مئی کے الیکشن ملکی تاریخ کے پہلے الیکشن تھے جن میں اقتدار ایک منتخب شدہ جمہوری حکومت سے ایک منتخب شدہ جمہوری حکومت کو منتقل ہوا – ایک ایسا ملک جہاں سیکورٹی اسٹیبلشمنٹ جمہوری حکومتوں کو گھر بھیجنے
The Political Parties of Pakistan – Saim Saeed: A Pakistani soldier loads ballot boxes into a van in Rawalpindi. Authorities hope the app, combined with a fully revised voter list and an unprecedented level of public scrutiny, will help ensure the election will be the cleanest ever.
Keep calm and vote anti-Taliban – Ale Natiq: Taliban target secular parties in Pakistan Mohammed Hanif explains how Taliban and affiliated Takfiris are try to affect the results of elections through systematic attacks on secular parties. In the same talk, he clearly mentions Sipah Sahaba ( (aka ASWJ/LEJ) heinous