Analyst: Pakistan knows where al-Zawahiri is: Fareed speaks with Carlotta Gall, ‘New York Times’ reporter and author of ‘The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014’, about the future of Afghanistan.Watch the full interview this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN. What
Media discourse on Deobandi terrorism: 11-16 March 2014: Increasingly, Pakistani and international media is clearly highlighting the Deobandi identity of terrorist outfits and the inherent takfiri and violent nature of Deobandi ideology. This vindicates LUBP’s seminal stance that it is important to clearly identify the
سعودی عرب کی جیلوں میں بند پاکستانیوں کی دہائی: ”یہ دیکھیں ہمارے اقامےہیں۔ کسی میں ایک سال ہے تو کسی میں آٹھ مہینے لیکن پھر بھی ہمیں پکڑکر قید کر لیا گیا ہے۔ہم لوگوں نے ادھار لیکر، زیورات اور مال مویشی بیچ کر ویزے لیےَ ہیں اور یہاں
Terrorism in Pakistan – by Syed Ejaz Hussain: This dissertation, in a 3-paper format, uses three data sets to study three aspects of terrorism in Pakistan. In the first paper, using data from the GTD, I describe empirically the temporal and spatial patterns of terrorism incidents in
Sunanda Pushkar loved her husband to death- by Shazia Nawaz: Sunanda Pushkar loved her husband to death. No pun intended. In fact, death doesn’t sound very romantic, does it? Sunanda, the deceased wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, supposedly committed suicide after finding out about her husband’s alleged affair
Pakistani Mandelas on Twitter – by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid: And their French Revolution against gastronomic apartheid Pakistan happens to be a country where a French restaurant not allowing Pakistanis inside because it serves haraam food is dubbed ‘apartheid’, while a document discriminating on the basis of religion
The Deobandi Sectarian Agenda – by Adnan Adil: Sectarian violence in the country is no longer a one-dimensional, local phenomenon of intense expression of hatred of one sect towards the other, as it was at the time of its inception in the mid-1980s. It has
Geo Network – Media or Mafia ? – by Farrukh Masood: Malcolm X once said, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
Third national #media conference by Individualland @individualland: The two-day of media conference entitled “Evolution of Media: requirements, facts and fears from a free, independent and responsible media’s (FIRM) perspective” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists
Mir Shakil ur Rahman VS Pak Army – by Fareed Pasha: It was an early winter night. The small intimate gathering at the rooftop of a private bungalow was a calm affair but a tête-à-tête with a well-known senior media person from Geo Network was red hot! The topic of
’بلبلِ صحرا‘ ریشماں انتقال کر گئیں: پاکستان کی معروف لوک گلوکارہ ریشماں چھیاسٹھ برس کی عمر میں لاہور میں انتقال کر گئیں۔ پاکستان کے سرکاری اور مقامی میڈیا کے مطابق وہ طویل عرصے سے گلے کے کینسر میں مبتلا تھیں اور گزشتہ ایک ماہ سے
حکیم اللہ محسود کی ہلاکت اور اردو کالم نگار: اردو صحافت اور کالم نگار عامر حسینی جیسا کہ میں نے اپنے فیچر “جہادی صحافت “میں اردو پرنٹ اور الیکٹرانک میڈیا کے حکیم اللہ محسود کی ہلاکت پر جہادی صحافیوں کی آہ و بکاء پر خاصا تفصیل سے لکھا
زندہ ہے گوئبلز زندہ ہے – از وسعت اللہ خان: ہٹلر کے وزیرِ اطلاعات جوزف گوئبلز کو جدید پروپیگنڈے کا باوا سمجھا جاتا ہے۔ ایک جگہ فرماتے ہیں کہ لوگوں کی نفسیات اور کمزوریاں سمجھ کے ایک ہی بات کی تکرار سے چوکور کو دائرہ ثابت کرنا کوئی مشکل
The indecisive PM – by Aziz-ud-Din Ahmad: The man at the helm is letting the country drift Over the last four months, Nawaz Sharif has failed to take a number of important decisions creating the perception that he is indecisive. Major cabinet posts remain unattended. The
Critique of “The Emirate of TTP- by Babar Sattar”: While there are some errors and omissions in Babar Sattar’s “The Emirates of TTP (DAWN, August 12 2013 http://dawn.com/news/1035362/the-emirate-of-ttp) the idea of declaring the TTP and its apologists as anti-State is an interesting idea. It is refreshing to see