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Articles with tag: dissent

Kalabagh Dam

Hassan Nasir   Jun 18, 2006   interacts: 2

So, what does Mr. Musharraf mean by “at every cost”? Is it so, KBD will be built even if it is tantamount to further dismemberment of Pakistan?

Acting Under Orders

Wade Agnew   Jun 7, 2005   interacts: 21

... and you thought Singapore was a harmless, friendly city state.

Children of Dictatorship

Afiya Shehrbano   Feb 10, 2005   interacts: 44

I have always referred to my contemporaries as Zia’s children... We were socialised in a culture of sectarian and communal hate, drugs, guns, Pajeros, and with a false consciousness based only on abstinence. Not much has changed in this generation o

Contemporary Sit-Coms

ahmad hayat   Sep 26, 2004   interacts: 3

It is really difficult for people to tell whether I am talking about desi movies or sit-coms. The only apparent difference being that the sit-coms are over-acted upon by a specific set of college dropouts pretending to be yet in their teens.

Sister Act: Radio Free Speech in Bushland

Beena Sarwar   Aug 28, 2004   interacts: 4

I can’t help thinking that it is ironic that just as people rarely know of the dissent in Pakistan, so too there is little knowledge of the vibrant dissent within the United States

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