Articles with tag: Press
Dancing With Madonna
Muhammad Tariq May 31, 2008 interacts: 12Dancing helps in developing, not only a beautiful body, but also a healthy mind, and should be encouraged in society.
Prisoner of Conscience
MD WAQAR Apr 18, 2008 interacts: 6Mr. Afridi is imprisoned because of his peaceful expression of his beliefs. He is victim of an unfair trial.
Is Decline of the Fourth-Estate Here and Happening?
Mahesh Prabhu Mar 7, 2008 interacts: 58Distinguished Editor and Author of our times M J Akbar is removed from the Chairmanship of 'The Asian Age' and 'Deccan Chronicle'.
Media: The more things change...
Beena Sarwar Nov 30, 2007 interacts: 77Where only one Najam Sethi was picked up under the Sharif regime, over the past eight years, dozens have been picked up and tortured by Pakistan’s secret agencies.
Freedom of Expression
Yasir Abbasi Nov 26, 2007 interacts: 5Was the media really free in Pakistan prior to November 3 2007? Is the media right to claim that it was being responsible and professional.
Musharraf and The Media
Moeed Pirzada Nov 20, 2007 interacts: 15With the imposition of martial law, all TV channels suddenly disappeared. BBC and CNN and Fox all were gone.
The Press Ordinance and Its Repercussions
Malik Aamir Nov 17, 2007 interacts: 46Did the dictator really shut down GEO News for the better 'interests' of Pakistan?
Corruption and Freedom of Press in Pakistan
Shayan Manzar Oct 25, 2007 interacts: 4There have been a number of statements lauding the “freedom” of the press accompanied by a grim reminder of the “dark” days under the democratic governments of the 90s. What does the evidence say?
Magic of metaphors : Op-Ed Journey of Thomas Friedman
Anand Patwardhan Oct 11, 2007 interacts: 53What is common between Detroit, Toyota, Jack Kevorkian, Mileage Standards and Assisted Suicide? Who would see such disparate elements as connected? Thomas Friedman!
Living Through a Revolution
Muhammad Tariq Aug 24, 2007 interacts: 54An account of my personal experiences in Iran as it went through a transition from a monarchy to an Islamic Republic
Why Atif Aslam works
Daniyal Bilgrami Jul 2, 2007 interacts: 16'If the color blue could take a voice, it would be that of Atif Aslam'
Encounters With Depression
Khalid Sohail Jun 7, 2007 interacts: 48Depression, like love, is probably one of the most misunderstood words of English language. It has been a mystery for lay people and professionals as it means different things to different people.
Media under siege in Pakistan
Mazhar Mazhar May 13, 2007 interacts: 131At least 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in clashes when suspended chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry arrived in Karachi to address a bar council ceremony.
Monar Jomban (part 3 of 4)
Manali Chakrabarti Mar 22, 2007 interacts: 3I have started distinguishing the girls now – all in their late teens and two of them obviously sisters. The two sisters are also the most vocal in gestures and words, very beautiful but in a loud sort of way – blood red glossy lips, mascaraed
Why Have This Train At All?
Veeresh Malik Feb 19, 2007 interacts: 457The complete Samjhauta Express scenario as it operates now, with a full night for the bad guys and their cohorts to create havoc between Delhi and Attari, as well as on the way back, is all about smuggling between India and Pakistan
Terrorists Strike Samjhota Express
Chowk Press Feb 19, 2007 interacts: 33Both India and Pakistan have condemned this act which appeas to have been timed to disrupt a high level meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.
Fruits of Western Civilisation
Afaq Ali Dec 11, 2006 interacts: 13The first psychiatrist he saw, at age 7, decided after a 20-minute visit that the boy was suffering from depression.
Have Muslims Become Caricatures?
Another point of view
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Feb 4, 2006 interacts: 74
Omar Marzauk, a Danish comedian, used to joke that he should have born a poodle, not a Muslim [in Denmark] “Dogs in this nation have their own burial grounds, and Muslims don’t,' he would say
The Minute After the Demise
Ali Rizvi Dec 14, 2005 interacts: 2Most people get casual headaches or heartburn, I suffer from random depression
A Certain Age
Revathy Gopal Oct 11, 2005 interacts: 6Everything one reads seems so dire. Endless implications for the fate of civilization and the way the world turns and is going to go in the next ten, twenty, fifty years.
Towards a shackled society, perhaps
Omar R Quraishi Jul 20, 2005 interacts: 121The vague and ambiguous provision of “ensuring Islamic values at public places” is bound to open a Pandora’s box because it would be safe to assume that the person whom the NWFP government will appoint as ombudsman will share the MMAR
How Free is ’free?’
Beena Sarwar Jul 18, 2005 interacts: 63The Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's August 11, 1947 speech to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, in which he talked about freedom of religion, is no longer censored, as it was for years.
Faraz
Xari Jalil Jun 29, 2005 interacts: 25Deeply indulgent in philosophy, classical music and Jaun Elia, Faraz was a thinker more than anything else. He spent much of his time conversing about life, the meaning of existence, and yes death.
anti-depressant
Fatimah Ihsan Jun 23, 2005 interacts: 34come give me little deaths
stroke my pain
silence will come
encore
The State Strikes Back
Rezwan Bajwa Jun 16, 2005 interacts: 7Many expected this to take a bit of time but the State pulled a surprise this past Saturday. The Rangers moved in to occupy all PTCL installations in the country and the Army signals core moved in to take over operations so that the workers could no long
Conflict over Foreign Investment in Indian Press
Sunil K Poolani Feb 9, 2005 interacts: 6Is it a threat of further invasion of our values, culture and life by foreign opinion makers or would it simply bring in financial investment, editorial quality and transparency. A heated debate amongst editors, publishers, and politicians in India.
Sughraa
Mohammed Amjed Dec 2, 2004 interacts: 20Sitting in the faded lamplight, Sughraa mends her soul, the imaginary needle piercing in and out of the tarnished fabric.
Baby’s Room
Sucheta Potnis Apr 15, 2004 interacts: 24She got up then, and laughed out aloud, her laughter drowning out the baby’s cries. As the baby heard the alien sound of laughter from his mother’s familiar voice, his cries dwindled to a whimper.
Haseena and Jannat (on earth)
Shandana Minhas Jun 15, 2003 interacts: 45even her grim demeanor cannot hide the fact that she is very attractive
On the Nature of the Principal Civic Contracts
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur May 18, 2002 interacts: 11Is anyone amongst the current world leadership dreaming with us
An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Mashhood Rizvi Feb 18, 2002 interacts: 19I don’t feel that I have important messages to convey
The Wages of Obedience
Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 12, 2002 interacts: 138The systemic failure of a whole class of people to think honestly and seriously, in short a failure to do their job as political analysts
Jihad: Paradoxes and Defining Moments
Urstruly Sep 30, 2001 interacts: 731There will always be a lunatic fringe in the Muslim society
The Real Face of Saudia Arabia
Sadia Saulat Apr 2, 2000 interacts: 101Saudi Arabia is not a signatory to the human rights as envisioned by United Nations
Need for a Confederation
Soumitra Bose Feb 21, 1999 interacts: 30India had never been a Nation, it is still not one
The lack of Women’s Rights in Pakistan
Omar Mirza Oct 29, 1998 interacts: 14Tracing the roots of oppression
Giving Way to Intolerance
Mehdi Hasan Sep 14, 1998 interacts: 12During the last many years, religious intolerance and sectarian fanaticism have created a war-like situation in Pakistan
Nuclear Bomb for Sale
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan Jul 6, 1998 interacts: 11the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,
Patriot Games
Shiv Visvanathan May 18, 1998 interacts: 13Pass out the barfis. It could be a hockey match. A Tendulkar century. A riot or a nuclear blast.
Brown Man’s Burden
Amar D Dhindsa May 2, 1998 interacts: 14I remember my English teacher sneering at students for not understanding what they were teaching, attributing our faults to lack of breeding
Gender and Literacy in Pakistan
S Y Hussain Jan 3, 1998 interacts: 2By looking at agendas and practices of some organizations involved with women’s literacy in Pakistan this paper attempts to clarify ideas related to gender, assumed or consciously advocated in their various approaches.
