Articles with tag: Resistance
Fight Against The Emergeny Continues
Faris Kasim Feb 7, 2008 interacts: 51If we are stressed, if we are constantly worried, then I believe it is a sign of great optimism. The struggle for a better Pakistan has just begun.
Muffled Voices on Campuses
Ahsan Raza Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 2As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.
Pakistan: Media Under Siege
Beena Sarwar Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 138Police have attacked and arrested journalists demonstrating all over the country. Over a hundred journalists offered themselves for mass arrest in Karachi on Nov 20.
Pressures Mount on Pervez Musharraf
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 11"The judges by not taking oath, the lawyers and civil society by resisting have shown the way. The media is standing by them. This is one battle the General is sure to lose"
Its Time To Follow The 'Pied Piper'
Nikhat Rasool Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 4Yesterday I learnt that our own Pakistani police have taken away ‘Imran Khan’, our hero the pride of nation, to put him behind bars.
Cholesterol Say Paak
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 129I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of the people, but no great movement.
Johnny On The Street
Irfan Pakistani Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 3Should the lawyers be able to recapture the imagination of the nation and catalyze meaningful national resistance, the calculus shall change.
Days of Rage
William Dalrymple Aug 26, 2007 interacts: 67“However flawed democracy here is, it is still the only answer,” she (Asma Jahangir) continued.
Union Strike One
Rezwan Bajwa Jun 14, 2005 interacts: 61Something out of the ordinary has happened over the past 3 weeks. The PTCL workers Union has pulled off a successful strike and has managed to get the privatization of the company postponed indefinitely.
Reflections of Resistance
Naveen Qayyum Dec 13, 2004 interacts: 5No matter how different ideological courses these movement may adopt, women in South Asia are there to bring about a change for peace and justice by resisting the ‘sacred’ and the ‘secular’ both.
The Responsibility of Students
Nima Shirali Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 15I started my university studies with the expectation of elevating my level of academic understanding. I was of the notion that I would be entering a “sanctuary for free thought”. Yet, the notion of this “sanctuary” was violently br
The Razor’s Edge
Feroz R Khan Jul 7, 2003 interacts: 111The United States seems to be losing the proverbial battle for the “hearts and minds” of the Afghans. The biggest problem was that the United States was not prepared for the post-war situation and had no plans to tackle the problems
On the Picket Line in Islamabad
Jamil Omar May 14, 2003 interacts: 121It is Islamabad’s best-known secret. The picket lines at KFC and Pizza Hut are well into their second month and there has not been a word about it in the local press
Saddam Hussein Lives!
Haroon Moghul May 2, 2003 interacts: 140The Future of America’s Occupation is Failure
Survival of the Fittest
Urstruly Apr 23, 2003 interacts: 366If Pakistan is next then what are the options?
An Answer to the Pro War Surrealists
Syed Ali Apr 9, 2003 interacts: 111If you feel that your way of life is better than us, than live it, but stop trying to impose it upon us.
A Stable Political Order in Post-War Iraq?
Abul K Islam Apr 8, 2003 interacts: 22A new political order in Iraq is likely to be strife-ridden
Dam it?
Shams Rehman Feb 7, 2003 interacts: 17Protest against the extension of Mangla Dam continues despite the mainstream media's ignorance
Ghada Karmi: The Strength of Palestinian Narrative in the Face of Violence
Bina Shah Feb 1, 2003 interacts: 46She continues to hold the belief that Palestinian statehood is a goal that can be achieved with the use of all options
India, Pakistan and America’s Mixed Signals
Ras Siddiqui Dec 30, 2001 interacts: 106War is the last thing that we need there
Muslims and The West After 11th September
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 7, 2001 interacts: 569America has exacted blood revenge for the Twin Towers
An Eulogy For The Hawks
Keerthik Sasidharan Jun 29, 2001 interacts: 203Your administrations’ talks with President Musharraf
The Quest for Power
Mushahid Hussain Jun 26, 2001 interacts: 143It took General Zia 14 months after the July 1977 coup to assume the Presidency, while General Musharraf waited 20 months to do the same
The Chicken Hawks Of Pakistan
Feroz R Khan May 7, 2001 interacts: 422The military should accept the fact that it is a dictatorship
Obsession with Borderline Issues
Sameer Apr 3, 2001 interacts: 564pre-occupation with insignificant extremes in the name of religion is misplaced
Different Eagles, Same Genus
Feroz R Khan Apr 12, 2000 interacts: 232For the Indian war planners, the Pakistan Air Force is their worst fear...
Compilation of Opinions on the Military Takeover in Pakistan
Chowk Staff Oct 18, 1999 interacts: 94Peoples opinions and reactions
ADB Cancels Sewerage Loan
Aly Ercelawn and Perveen Rehman Sep 22, 1999 interacts: 4An article welcoming the cancellation of a $70 million Asian Development Bank loan for the Korangi-Landhi area.
Face to face with the Indian Muslims
Feroz M Kamal May 3, 1999 interacts: 120How are the Muslims faring in India?
Damming Kalabagh
Aly Ercelawn and Muhammad Nauman Jun 23, 1998 interacts: 8Is the state acting wisely in its insistence upon building Kalabagh Dam?
Onwards to the Nuclear Abyss
Feroz R Khan Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 6India, Pakistan and the March of Folly
Christians of Pakistan
Asim Hayat Feb 22, 1998 interacts: 29The constitution defines Pakistan as an Islamic nation and guarantees freedom to all other religion. Are we doing justice in implementing this all important social tolerance act?
