مذھبی جنونیت اور لیفٹ – پہلا حصّہ – عامر حسینی: نوٹ : فکاہیہ جریدہ شارلی ایبڈو کے دفتر جو پیرس میں واقع ہے پر القائدہ سے تعلق رکھنے دو یمنی نژاد فرانسیسی مسلمانوں حملے میں 12 افراد کی جانیں جانے کے بعد مسلم جنونیت کے بارے میں مغرب کے
فیض احمد فیض کی نایاب نظمیں: فیض صاحب کی برسی کے موقع پر ایک نظم حاضر خدمت ہے جو انہوں نے ١٩٦٣ میں ٹہری سندھ میں وہابی دیوبندی تکفیریوں کے ہاتھوں شہید ہونے والے ١١٨ شیعہ مسلمانوں پر لکھی .. …. ……. فیض صاحب کی
فیض احمد فیض، ریل گاڑی اور دیسی سوشلزم: نہیں صاحب، یہ کسی سرمایہ دار اشراف کی کہانی نہیں، یہ کہانی ہے برصغیر کے دیسی سوشلزم کی، پڑھیے اور سر دھنیے – کیا کوئی سوشلسٹ، مارکسسٹ صرف اپنی ضرورت یا ترجیح کے لیے ریل گاڑی کی دیگر
Can the Left become relevant to Islamic Pakistan? – by Pervez Hoodbhoy: (Written in 2010 for U.S. journal New Politics, the essay below is still relevant. Therefore, in a bid to generate an important debate, we are running it by arrangement with New Politics. Original Source: http://newpol.org/content/can-left-become-relevant-islamic-pakistan) The left has always
Pakistan: Diversity in Hypocrisy – by Shoaib Mehmood Nagi: Shakespeare once said ‘Few love to hear the sins they love to act’. One has to only look at the political opinions of various Pakistanis to corroborate his observation. The phenomenon of hypocrisy in Pakistan is not limited to
Sobia Ali: An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha: Editor’s Note: We are pleased to cross-post Nadeem F. Paracha’s interview to Sobia Ali and Raza Raja Habib from Huffington Post. The interview is an articulate discussion of politics, sociology and culture. Such interviews are needed to highight the mindset
Two interesting articles from a leftist perspective: Our contributor Irfan Urfi has sent us two interesting articles, one by Noam Chomsky and the other by Arundhati Roy (translated into Urdu by Manzoor ul Hasan Hashmi) The Corporate Takeover of US Democracy – by Noam Chomsky (originally
Rant of the day: The dead parrot: By Dr. Omar Ali Communications from well meaning leftist friends indicate that some of them misunderstand my criticism of Islamism. They seem to think that my objection is primarily moral. That I somehow think orthodox Islam is very uniquely
Who are the Maoists?: Rakesh Mani on India’s Maoist underbelly – despite differences, struck me how much the Naxals share with Pk-based militants (Taliban, Lashkars etc). Change a few words here & tweak a few facts there and this could be about Pakistan’s
Misfortunes of the Pakistani Left — by Dr Mohammad Taqi: The Pakistani neocon media have stoked this urban Pak-nationalist zealotry — whose detonator is Saudi Islam — and helped the grotesque fascist mediocrities like the Brothers Sharif, complete their chokehold on Pakistan’s political economy “With the development of interest-bearing
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
A secular state is a moral state — by Ishtiaq Ahmed: The modern secular-democratic state must ensure that all individuals as well as majorities and minorities enjoy freedom of religion and conscience and the political right to choose their government In the last few weeks the Daily Times has carried
Tahira Abdullah Arrested: A Talibanic Analysis: Tahira Abdullah: The Pakistani right-wing enjoys a free ride upon the shoulders of the left-wing? HR activist Tahira Abdullah arrested and released March 11, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Human rights activist Tahira Abdullah was arrested on Wednesday. Talking to Geo News, Tahira