Penetration of extremist elements growing in QAU: ISLAMABAD – Last week the students of Quaid-i-Azam University shut down the campus over patronisation of a student organisation with extremist ideology by a group of faculty members. Although after acceptance of demands and family pressure to stay away
Give Pakistan back – Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, spoke of his vision for a state in which “we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles
جمہوریت دی لیلیٰ دیاں ستے خیراں – آصف زیدی: سنیا اے ساڈی پرلیمنٹ رل کے بہہ گئ اے واہ واہ اے پئی ایس پرلیمنٹ دی ایہناں دے آپس وچ رشتے بڑے پرانے تے گوہنڈے نیں. نواز شریف ہن ایہناں دا امام اے تے امام تے مقتدی سارے اکو
مصاحب اور وزیر اعظم – آصف زیدی: (شورش کاسمیری سے معزرت کیساتھ) مصاحبین حضور ہم تیس برس سے حاشیہ بردار اولٰی ہیں عمومی شور و غل شہروں کی دیرینہ طبیعت ہے سیاسی کھیل ہیں، شوریدہ سر ہلڑ مچاتے ہیں انہیں لیڈر نچاتے ہیں ہمیں آنکھیں دکھاتے
احتجاج اور دھرنے نئی سیاسی ساخت – شبانہ یوسف: فرق صرف اتنا ہے کہ سیاسی ’جوہر‘ پہلے کی روایتی الیکشن کی ساخت کے علاوہ نئی ساختوں کو اپنا مسکن بنا چکا ہے جو نام نہاد ’’بعد از مادیتی اقدار‘‘ کے مغربی معاشروں میں سیاسی سرگرمیوں میں نوجوان طبقے
اسلام آباد کو کشتی نوح بنا دو – عمار کاظمی: تعصب کا کوءی علاج نہیں اور پاکستان میں بہت سے لوگ عمران خان اور ڈاکٹر قادری کے بارے میں تعصب کا شکار ہیں۔ کس نے کہا کہ دھرنے ناکام ہوگءے؟ آج شاید علامہ ابتسام الہی ظیہر بھی ڈاکٹر قادری
Boy strangulated after being tortured – by Obaid Abbasi: Police believe the 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted before being killed. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD:The body of a 10-year-old seminary student was found in the Koral area late on Wednesday. He had allegedly been sexually-assaulted by an unidentified person
Thirty funerals and an Eid – Vaqar Amhed: Today is Eid, and I am dreading the day. For me it is a day that is dead, empty of meaning, and bereft of joy. Yesterday, 30 persons were killed in a funeral procession in Quetta. Thirty funerals
Job in Islamabad – some opportunity – by Suhail: Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan and unlike other cities; a job in Islamabad offers a range of opportunities to both its residents and outsiders. Not only this, foreigners are no new feat in Islamabad. Time has brought
Utter shame PM Gilani and Rehman Malik: It is utter shame how Prime Minister Gilani and Rehman Malik have been behaving like a ‘Devil’s Advocate’. More than two hundred young men from Parachinar have been camping outside the National Press Club in Islamabad for the past
Bullets of Intolerance – by Farhad Jarral: The apparent lull following the daylight slayings in recent months of two of Pakistan’s most prominent liberal politicians raises even more questions about a nation unwilling to confront the propagators of fear and destruction. They took less than 60
The Call Centre Odyssey from Islamabad – by Dil Nawaz: Mirpur city of Kashmir, situated 80 miles south east of Islamabad, is often called the ‘eastern most city of United Kingdom’ due to big population of British Kashmiris(Pakistanis or just Muslims, whatever they want to be known as). Jars
Who is behind attacks on NATO supply trucks in Pakistan: There is now irrefutable evidence which suggests the following: 1. The ISI-Taliban Alliance (i.e., the Taliban in uniform and the Taliban in civil clothes) are behind recent attacks on NATO supply trucks in Pakistan 2. Pakistan’s foreign office is
Air Blue plane crashes in Islamabad – 152 were on board: An Air Blue plane flying from Karachi to Islamabad has crashed just outside Islamabad. Till now only a few bodies have been recovered and thick smoke is rising out of the Margalla Hills. Let’s pray that casualties are as
Haunting acquittals – by Babar Sattar: The Lal Masjid brigade brought life to a standstill in Islamabad. Its vigilante missions caused harm and nuisance. But that paled into insignificance when over a hundred lives were lost in the security operation executed to regain control of
Wild boars attack Pakistan’s Supreme Court: Mukafat-e-amal? Wild boars inhabit the thickly-forested areas around Islamabad. The city is located in a valley in the foothills of the Himalayas which provides them with perfect cover. Today was however a strange day in Islamabad’s history. Destiny had
Holi festival and Pakistani Hindus: Picture Source: BBC Urdu Pakistani Hindus to miss Holi celebrations February 23, 2010, Islamabad: The few Pakistani Hindus, who have made the federal capital their home, will miss splashing colours at each other as they brace up for a
Hijacking Democracy – by Anas Muhammad: Today we live in an increasingly dangerous world, which is filled with people who have their ulterior motives and willingness to harm others to benefit themselves. Our world is filled with criminals, gangsters, murderers, and terrorists. The people who
The Rightist Judicio-Politico Mafia – by Anas Muhammad: Saturday February 13 – The Chief Justice of Pakistan defied Presidential orders through a suo moto action against the Presidential notification for appointment of certain judges. Chief Justice, in a rare nightly emergency session, formed a three members
Reconciliation Is No Silver Bullet – by Anas Muhammad: Two years ago – February 2008 – Pakistan began its transformation to democracy with a general election that brought Benazir Bhutto’s PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) into power. The party decided to continue its policy, introduced by its slain leader
Lal Mosque: General Musharraf’s greatest achievement: By Omar Khattab Pakistan’s overwhelmingly right-wing media and politicians have been condemning General Musharraf for taking action against the Islamofascists of the Lal Mosque. Even Chaudhury Shujat and Mushahid Hussain who were more pro-Musharraf during