The Media Muddle
By Dr. Munawar A. Anees and Maryam Iraj “The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they...
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Pakistan, India and Kashmir Peace Talks – Why War Is Not An Option.
By Mona Kazim Shah This symposium is scheduled for the 10th of Oct, 2015 at UT Dallas at 2 PM at Naveen Jindal School of Management. It is organized by #ProjectPakistan, an ongoing campaign that speaks...
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زلزلے کے بعد کی ابتر صورتحال
تحریر: عماد ظفر ملک میں سوموار کی دوپہر شدید زلزلے نے ایک اضطرابی کیفیت پیدا کر دی ہے. ریکٹر سکیل پر زلزلے کی شدت 8.1 ریکارڈ کی گئی جو کہ اکتوبر 2005 کے ہولناک زلزلے سے بھی بہت زیادہ تھی. جس وقت یہ...
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اربابِ اختیار کے لئے کسوٹی: حصہ دوئم
نوٹ: پاک ٹی ہاؤس طاہر بھٹی صاحب کی تحریر کو اپنی آزادی اظہار کی پالیسی کے تحت پبلش کر رہا ہے اور اس لئے بھی کہ ملک میں جاری تفریق کی روش پر احمدی کیا موقف رکھتے ہیں اسے بھی واضح طور پر قارئین کے...
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Pakistan Media and its Struggle till Musharaf Period
By Faisal Zaidi Pakistani Press divided into different parts according to their struggle in the different eras. The first era (1947-1957): when press struggled for constitution and the reformation for...
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بسمہ مر گئی تو کیا بھٹو تو زندہ ہے نا
تحریر: عماد ظفر بھٹو زندہ رہنا چاہیے بھلے ہی اس کو زندہ رکھنے کیلئے ہمیں ہزاروں جیتے جاگتے انسانوں کو موت کے گھاٹ اتارنا پڑے۔ دس ماہ کی ایک بچی نے کراچی کے سول اسپتال کے مین گیٹ پر دم توڑ دیا کیونکہ اس...
View ArticleLife of a Journalist in Pakistan
By Rukhshan Meer Every day I read and watch multiple news stories and I observed that media, more than often, pays tribute to cricketers, actors, dancers, civil servants, military men and many other...
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The Profession of Prostitution
By Najeeb Kakar The trade with many faces. Many writers and intellectuals boldly write and speak particularly about the menace of terrorism and extremism plaguing the country. Every commoner,...
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How We See Pakistani Scientists and Educationists.
By Abuzar Wp There is a homosexual person currently working as an Associate Head of Physics Department at Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT). Unfortunately, the genetic make-up of the sex...
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Part I: Media – Our Friend or Foe?
By Muqeet Tahir Malik Media, a word that evolves an imaginary television in our brain encompassed by multifarious forms of audio, social media and video. Have you ever thought about the concept of...
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Review:The Wandering Falcon—Exploding the Myth about Tribal Culture(s) in...
By Aslam Kakar The Wandering Falcon By Jamil Ahmad The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmed’s debut novel, was published in 2011—almost four decades after it was written in the early 1970s. Why it took so...
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The Profession of Prostitution – II
By Najeeb Kakar In my last article, about the profession of prostitution, I deconstructed why prostitution is considered a viable source of revenue by poor Pashtun women. I had also given a detailed...
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Part II: Media – Our Friend or Foe?
By Muqeet Tahir Malik The plethora of media. Media is like a myriad giant setting trends for public all while trying to cajole them for personal gains. A prominent example in this regard is the six...
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Using Kitsch for Fame?
By Rukhshan Meer For those of you who are not familiar with word “kitsch”, lets bring to your knowledge that it is a German word, known to be first used in 1925. Urban dictionary states that it is as...
View ArticleDo you want to know what will happen if you go to report harassment or rape...
By Zahra H In case you have been raped or harassed and are wondering what will follow when you go to a police station to report the crime, watch (and cringe as you watch) Pakistani male journalists’...
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