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SYSTEM CHANGE RATHER THAN CLIMATE CHANGE

System Change not Climate Change

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Waqar Aslam Glaciers won’t stop melting because of a beautiful speech at UNO. The catastrophic nature of the repercussions of climate change effect in Pakistan become crystal clear from the fact that Land of the pure had lost around ten…

Never-ending Violence Against Women in Pakistan

September 20, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By Usama Malick It is heart-rending to see the newspapers these days emblazoned with the headlines describing the reprehensible & barbaric gang-rape of a woman who was on her way from Lahore to Gujranwala. There is no…

It is not safe to be anything in Pakistan right now!

September 20, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Shireen Rizvi Within just two week span we witnessed some horrific realities were seen the in form of violence and hatred. A woman got raped in front of her children on Lahore to Gujranwala motorway. This news spread like a…

Editorial: Azaadi, The quest for true freedom

August 18, 2020September 20, 2020 News DeskEnglish

This 14/15th of August marked the 73rd anniversary of independence from British Colonialists. In our opinion the case still remains unaddressed, the question unanswered and dream of true freedom remains unfulfilled. Colonialism, was nothing but a plunder of people’s heritage…

Scam: The Independence we were promised but never given

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Vartika Mishra While I am writing this article about Freedom and the Idea of freedom, i am going back to the memory lane and recall all the names who are behind the bars because they questioned the fascist hindu government…

Fascism in independent India

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Faroagh ul Islam mom kī tarah jalte rahe ham shahīdoñ ke tan rāt-bhar jhilmilātī rahī sham-e-sub.h-e-vatan Makhdoom Mohiuddin’s Chaand taaro’n ka bann is a pithy description of our historic struggle against the British Raj. The battle of Plassey, fought in…

Religious bigotry in India and Pakistan

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Chandan Kumar Divided subcontinent attained independence from the British colonial regime on the eve of 15th August 1947. Several ideological differences led to the creation of two new countries with similar history of resistance against oppression and repression of dissent.…

FREEDOM THROUGH GENERATIONS & THE PERSPECTIVE SHIFTS

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish, Poetry

– Maham Shah I am from a generation who have seen their grandparents staring blankly in distance Recollecting T h e P a s t T h e T r a n s i t i o n. For them…

KINGDOM LOST UNDERNEATH THE SANDS OF TIME

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Amna Zaffar ‘Pakistan’, a country of mixed ethnicities, cultures, languages and history, which all came together under one identity, in 1947. Where independence of Pakistan is only 73 years old there’s a 272 years old, Muslim independent state in Pakistan…

Situating Independence and Freedom along Partition and Separation

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Mudabbir Ali The independence of India and Pakistan (from each other) was made possible through partition which later unfolded as one of the most violent mass-migrations in modern world history. At the end of the second world war it was…