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Articles with tag: move

The Labour Struggle

ameem lutfi   Jul 31, 2008   interacts: 1

The current upsurge of labour strikes all over the country has once again brought to the forefront the same rhetoric of 'work harder instead of complaining'.

Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder

saeed qureshi   Jun 15, 2008   interacts: 351

There is all quiet in Pakistan after the lawyers’ long march. The struggle of more than one year was wasted away in matter of hours.

Long March

kashkin dabruski   Jun 11, 2008   interacts: 42

In thousands, we will march, for change
Hear you will my friends, not far away
The days of change and nights of comfort
Walk with me, as each step gathers its storm

Myths Surrounding the Lawyer’s Movement

Ameer Mukhtar   May 22, 2008   interacts: 68

Election data made public is quite opposite to the generally promoted perception that February 18 saw an overwhelming mandate to restore the judiciary and remove Musharraf

The ‘shoey’ Side of Politics

Ather Naqvi   Apr 9, 2008   interacts: 517

People had not shut their ‘shocked’ mouths at the treatment meted out to Arbab Ghulam Rahim when they saw Sher Afgan being roughed up by the black coats.

Student Movement Revisited

S Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi   Apr 6, 2008   interacts: 25

Dr Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi, two stalwarts of the first student movement in Pakistan, the Democratic Students Federation (DSF) write to set the record straight about DSF.

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Feb 18, 2008   interacts: 24

As soon as the western powers recognise Kosovo as an independent country, it will cause a huge dislocation in the fabric of all other separatist terrorist campaigns

Muffled Voices on Campuses

Ahsan Raza   Nov 23, 2007   interacts: 2

As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.

Where's the news?

Nadeem F Paracha   Oct 14, 2007   interacts: 83

The so-called "movement against Musharraf" and the unfolding "democratic revolution" seems like a shrinking reality no bigger than a 26-inch TV screen.

Muslims and the Road to Perdition

Zafar Anjum   Aug 23, 2005   interacts: 324

In today’s globalized flat world, Muslims must harmonize themselves with other communities and reap the benefits of a changed world. Like the true deputies of God on earth, let’s make it a better place.

Hole walli Haveli

Fatimah Ihsan   Jul 14, 2005   interacts: 27

“Aray baba, why do you ask such questions. Come and sit here. After your baray mamoo and your parents, hai hai all of them died in that mua car crash, I was left all alone. I asked your Chotay Mamoo to come live with me. Buss, after that all he a

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

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