Class politics 2.0
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been a decade since the political uprisings known as the Occupy movements burst onto the
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Opinion
Blue Muslim wave in the US organizes for 2020
Maria Tirmizi When she tweeted out a customary Arabic prayer to mourn for the victims of the New Zealand mosque
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Of uniform education system mantra and U-turns
By Noor Akbar Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Shafqat Mahmood after taking the oath of office and
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I have always quarreled with this word ‘activist’, says Arundhati Roy
Writing is the most appropriate way of expressing trauma and complications, and I will be the last one to make
Read MoreSocial justice, collective work panacea to societal ills in GB
Shahzaib Hassan “Man is by nature a social animal and that one who does not socialize in society is either
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PM hints at more cabinet changes after ‘batting order’ shuffle
Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that he would not hesitate to make more changes
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Amritsar, Quetta and Mardan varsity tragedies and our haunting silences
Dr Ammar Ali Jan April 13th is one of the darkest days in the chapters of our recent and distant
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The nation reboot
TOMORROW is Youm-i-Pakistan. A big military parade will be staged to remind 220 million people that the Pakistani nation is
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Let’s reflect as we hail Ardern
Abbas Nasir IF there were an opinion poll asking Pakistanis who their favourite leader is today, one could be certain
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Patriarchy strikes back
EVEN for a society that views most form of rights-based activism with suspicion, the backlash against Aurat March has been
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A rising movement
Tooba Syed MARCH 8, 2019, will be remembered as a day of hope and unabashed protest, in which thousands of
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Death wish as nationalism
Jawed Naqvi THE mad major portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove — a psychopathic American nationalist driven by an urge
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Bigoted minister
FAYYAZ Chohan, the improbably titled — now former — Punjab minister for information and culture, has once again demonstrated his
Read MoreWhen women workers lead the way
Struggles past and present show the left how we can make the connection between the fight for women’s rights and
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Making peace prevail
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy The release of captured Indian fighter pilot Abhinandan Varthaman is excellent news, and Pakistan’s gesture that it
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