Articles with tag: ban
30 Days in Afghanistan - Dinner Conversations
Naeem Randhawa Apr 28, 2008 interacts: 86I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Actually, I'm in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - and across and beside me, people are beginning to get drunk. Muslims are getting drunk.
Stripping Away Beauty
Adnan Bashir Apr 28, 2008 interacts: 8There are more houses and wider roads but lesser pastures and more stinking water drains. The weather does not seem all that pleasant and the air is ridden with smoke and smog.
The Deoband Declaration on Terrorism: Why Now?
Dost Mittar Mar 3, 2008 interacts: 183On February 25, 2008 an “All India Terrorism Conference” was attended by over 10,000 Islamic clerics, scholars, muftis and teachers.
The Spring of Discontentment
ahmad hayat Feb 27, 2008 interacts: 20As of today 27th Feb 2008, the USD has touched its record low against Euro (1.50) while Oil has touched its record peak of 101 dollars.
Taliban, Pashtoons and Pakistan
Khalid Bhatti Jan 28, 2008 interacts: 155The militants have become so bold that they have started to fight pitch battles against the Army instead of employing hit and run tactics that were the hallmark of tribal battle skills.
Fall of Dacca
Riaz Jafri Dec 11, 2007 interacts: 135December 16 comes every year to haunt the nation, particularly those few remaining who were witness to the debacle.
An Insight Into Pakistan Army and Musharraf
ijaz gul Nov 29, 2007 interacts: 193A combination of threat perception and indispensability strengthened his quest for legitimacy till it consumed his reformist self.
First it was Bangladesh now it Baluchistan
Hussain Gadehi Nov 26, 2007 interacts: 123Baluchistan has a different history than Bangladesh, Bengalis were active for creation of Pakistan but Baloch weren’t part of Pakistan moment.
The Cyclone and the Saudi Prince
Naeem Randhawa Nov 26, 2007 interacts: 2Patargata - never heard of it, it sounds like a Thai dish. Do I need to worry about it? I've got enough on my mind.
Pakistani Media Crippled
Moeed Pirzada Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 6The Musharraf government wants to financially cripple this most popular of the media community to set an example - just like the judiciary.
Kolkata on Fire
Torsa Ghosal Nov 21, 2007 interacts: 70On 21st November the protest was more violent than any imagined in recent times in Kolkata and almost all our lives have been violently affected by it.
Pakistan at War
Akmal Hussain Nov 16, 2007 interacts: 112There is little doubt that Pakistan is under attack by the combined forces of Al Qaeda and Taliban. It is equally clear that the war is not going well.
Pakistan at Sixty
Tariq Ali Nov 16, 2007 interacts: 11Insightful and relevant article written in October by political activist Tariq Ali on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Pakistan.
Voice from Waziristan
Khalid Bhatti Oct 28, 2007 interacts: 68Today on 28th October, 2007 I woke up to the horror stories of killing and beheading of thirteen people in Swat, Pakistan.
Neoliberalism and Madrassas: An Unholy Connection
Ahmar Mahboob Oct 26, 2007 interacts: 71How these schools (madrassas) are perhaps an indirect consequence of structural adjustment policies that are dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.
Friends Not, Masters
Hussain Gadehi Sep 24, 2007 interacts: 3An overview of the declasified US secret documents, it has been alleged in those documents that the Pakistan is supporting the Taliban
Good on ya Bangladesh!
Ahmer Muzammil Sep 28, 2007 interacts: 88Thank you Bangladesh for having the moral courage to resolve a humanitarian crisis by granting citizenship to those unfortunate soles who are famously known as “stranded Pakistanis”.
The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People's Party
Yasser Latif Hamdani Sep 11, 2007 interacts: 389In the last 5 years, PPP in the assembly at least has emerged as a strong force against obscurantism.
Fatima Jinnah Park – Metaphor for Pakistan's Problems and their Solution
Q Isa Daudpota Sep 7, 2007 interacts: 13Capital Development Authority (CDA) has carved out a large corner (6000 sq yards) of the Fatima Jinnah Park for McDonald's at a ridiculously low rental
Bandit Queen
mukta srivastava Jun 24, 2007 interacts: 8Shall we ever understand why a woman, so violent, got so much support and protection in rural India and made it to Parliament? Shall we ever unravel the mystique of power of illiterate, landless masses in bringing about so profound a change?
Rahul Gandhi's Election Campaign
mehul kamdar Apr 29, 2007 interacts: 20Like monarchs of yore, this family seeks, perhaps, to install itself as a permanent ruling family in India.
Talibanization of Pakistan
Rafi Aamer Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 196By declaring that no law in Pakistan would be made against Islamic beliefs, the constituent assembly gave religious establishment the monopoly over legislative discourse thru which they could influence every part of the society.
Understanding the Death Fatwa on Taslima Nasreen
Kisan B Apr 15, 2007 interacts: 402It has become a time honoured tactic to incite the faithful into attacking and murdering those dare to criticise Islam and has served the spread of Islam well by terrorizing people into submission and silencing opposition.
Notes from the Sunderbans
Veeresh Malik Apr 13, 2007 interacts: 7Same place, different times. And now we are told that they may vanish below the surface of the Bay of Bengal in the next few years.
Girls Gone Wild
Shandana Minhas Apr 2, 2007 interacts: 1644The kidnapping of civilians and policemen by the students and teachers of the madrassas associated with the Lal Masjid, as well as recent events in Tank (NWFP) is evidence of a real, escalating and dangerous movement within the ranks of the religious righ
Adam Khor Ayash Gorillay
Syed Shah Jan 26, 2007 interacts: 8Is everyone these days tripping over themselves to conform to this stereotype of being hip?
Stagnating Pakistan-Iran Relations
S F Hasnat Dec 1, 2006 interacts: 187When it comes to Pakistan-Iran relations there is much more than what actually is being said by the establishment or its proxies.
Pakistan's Afghan Policy
Aparna Pande Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 492Afghanistan was created as a buffer state between the British and Russian empires. The international boundary line between Afghanistan and the British empire, inherited in 1947 by Pakistan, is the Durand line. This line divided ethnic Pashtun tribes into
Darakhat Bachao, Lahore Bachao
Ahmed R Alam Jun 29, 2006 interacts: 47The Citizens of Lahore are now planning a conference in which stakeholders shall be allowed to voice their concerns about the development of the city.
Urdu Star-spangled Banner
Shahla Wahid Apr 29, 2006 interacts: 9This poem is in response to Mr. Bush saying that the national anthem should be in English only. It would be like the recent immigrants do not exist
Muslims and Modern Banking: A Rejoinder
M Asadi Feb 26, 2006 interacts: 145The Koran states explicitly that trade is not the same as interest: Those who consume interest shall not rise, except as he rises whom Satan by his touch prostrates
Urban India -- The NRI Viewpoint
Rakesh Mani Jan 3, 2006 interacts: 23Perhaps this wave of westernization and erosion of culture and values is limited to a few, a solitary blond hair follicle in a jet black mane?
Invisible Immigrations, Furtive Bleedings
Harish Nambiar Nov 13, 2005 interacts: 13Unfortunately, the ghetto is moving into the city. The city is bleeding into the ghetto...Destinies are converging constantly and very swiftly in the globalised and globalizing world.
Nobody’s World
Mehwesh Rehman Oct 16, 2005 interacts: 4Before death claimed him, he had finally become a nobody, a nobody who was owned by no one and who belonged nowhere. This feel of a nobody that he had seen on the face of that man on that footpath had given him his peace.
Behind the Iron Purdah
Bina Shah Aug 25, 2005 interacts: 267...what this country might look like if people who want Pakistan to emulate the Taliban (in terms of how women should be treated) got their way
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development
Shivali Tukdeo Jul 11, 2005 interacts: 114Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra (India) was recently in the US, marketing and showcasing Maharashtra for possible investors.
Do riot children smell fear in parent’s sweat?
Harish Nambiar May 31, 2005 interacts: 9And yet, they go back to their insular neighbourhoods. Will the school triumph over the whispered prejudices of their neighbourhoods?
Implications of Iraqi Instability
S F Hasnat May 31, 2005 interacts: 27In the presence of 138,000 American troops, the first seventeen days of May witnessed 21 car bombings in Baghdad, while there were a total of 25 in all of the year of 2004.
Sultan Mints
Nadeem F Paracha May 12, 2005 interacts: 33Yes, sir, she sure felt like living in a pornographic film. A film made by sex fanatics.
The Sweltering Sky
Farzana Versey Apr 18, 2005 interacts: 169Why do I persist in standing transfixed, watching Amna, the little girl with big hands and big eyes, scrape a vessel of its shine? Why don’t I tell her to get out across the border and rot there instead of being an eyesore here?
Bankruptcy
Temporal Mar 29, 2005 interacts: 17'Despite incantations we display utter contempt for the poor, for the downtrodden. We are good for empty rhetorics. We are morally bankrupt,' he thundered.
A “Cedar” Revolution to Counter Russian Missiles for Damascus
Gajendra Singh Feb 18, 2005 interacts: 4The sale of missiles to Syria was finalized during Syrian President Basher Assad’s recent visit to Moscow. But it could ignite the most inflammable tinderbox in the region, Lebanon...
Afghanistan: Power Plays
abdul naeem Oct 5, 2004 interacts: 5In the culmination of a hectic week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an apparent assassination attempt while on an official visit south of Kabul. With Afghanistan’s presidential election less than a month away, the situation is looking more ch
Tight-fisted Urban Development!
Abdus Samad Jul 13, 2004 interacts: 4We are looking for ways to accelerate growth so that poverty can be reduced and living standards improved. We go borrowing and begging to do this! Yet not many of us question the myriads of opportunities for investment that careless regulation stifles.
Reviving Lahore
Nadeem Haque Feb 16, 2004 interacts: 19“Have you seen any tower cranes in Lahore? You know those things that they use to build high rise buildings!” I have asked many audiences this question and always received the same answer: “NO!”
Operation Searchlight
Tariq Aqil Nov 19, 2003 interacts: 240Dhaka, March 25th 1971, Tejgaon airport. General Yahya, Pakistan’s military dictator, before boarding his special aircraft turned to General Tikka Khan, Commander Eastern Command, and ordered “Sort them out!”
The obstacle in social mobility in Pakistan
Faiza Hussain Oct 24, 2003 interacts: 174Implement true Land Reforms in Pakistan, no more the facade of democracy.
In Search of Greener Pastures
Faiza Hussain Oct 8, 2003 interacts: 17It is time we drop the rhetoric and bring an end to Pakistan’s feudalism
A Contrary Opinion
Adnan Gilani May 12, 2002 interacts: 24why not give the goodwill to someone who has only been brutally honest with us
Indian Diplomacy : Time To Recheck
Amit Mathur Jan 4, 2002 interacts: 25The year saw a marked upswing in new Delhi’s relations with the US, Russia, Japan, Germany and France
India, Pakistan and America’s Mixed Signals
Ras Siddiqui Dec 30, 2001 interacts: 106War is the last thing that we need there
Love On The Line Of Control, a Story by Col Dharam Pal
Rahul Ghosh Sep 23, 2001 interacts: 103There seems to be a lot of acrimony and bad-blood between some Indian and Pakistani contributors ...
Reforming the Armed Forces
Mushahid Hussain Jun 10, 2001 interacts: 353Like any institution in a status quo society, the Armed Forces badly need reforms as well.
Hands Across The Border
Sharmila Bakshi Feb 17, 2001 interacts: 336we all must plant our saplings of peace today
1971 in 2000
Salman Akhtar Aug 20, 2000 interacts: 248... this singular event is consigned to the dustbin of history.
Where did Pakistan go wrong?
Lalit Mohan May 27, 2000 interacts: 95...you will find that in the course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims...
Why Clinton should visit Pakistan
Muhammad N Ahmed Mar 16, 2000 interacts: 291The Americans simply cannot sideline Pakistan...
The Millenium Manifesto or ’Ikeesween Sadi Dastoor’
Zeemax Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 332Kashmir does not belong to Pakistan regardless of historical events during partition...
Hegemony of the Ruling Elite in Pakistan
Abdus S Ghazali Dec 12, 1999 interacts: 193We have a chequered past in our experiments with democracy
Falsehoods Galore
Fauziya Khan Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 108Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
Balkan Tragedy: A Re-enactment of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh
Jamal Hasan Apr 7, 1999 interacts: 346The escalating human tragedy in Kosovo gives me a sense of deja vu
Need for a Confederation
Soumitra Bose Feb 21, 1999 interacts: 30India had never been a Nation, it is still not one
An Interview with Naseeruddin Shah
Rehan Ansari Jan 12, 1999 interacts: 663 pages of Manto tells you what you want to know [about Partition]
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
Placing Responsibility for the FCD Fiasco
Ghani Baqir Jul 3, 1998 interacts: 1An analysis on who is to blame for the Foreign Currency Deposits (FCD) fiasco in Pakistan?
The Essence of Islamic Banking
Muhammad Saleem Jul 1, 1998 interacts: 10... more financing and investment along Islamic lines is done in the United States than in all the Muslim countries combined ...
The Exploding Cities of the Developing World
Ayesha Tahir Feb 11, 1998 interacts: 6With ever-increasing global integration, problems that arise in one city can quickly spread throughout its region and even worldwide.
Bihari Refugees
Chowk P Room Jan 17, 1998 interacts: 9Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for Bihari refugees?
Almost Live in Concert
Musician Oct 24, 1997 interacts: 6It is important for us to understand more about DAT’s and Sequencers and how they work because paying $10 or more for a live performance where as only 10% of that is live, in my opinion, is making a fool out of people.
The Old Pakistan is Dead, Long Live New Pakistan
Sohail Rabbani Oct 23, 1997 interacts: 54On December 16, 1971 Pakistan ceased to exist during a well celebrated ceremony when Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi and Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora signed an armistice document.
