Sajjad shah There is no escaping the reality that the White is being wiped out from the Green flag which is another grave issue facing the already unsafe minorities in Pakistan. It is unfortunate that the ascendancy in the persecution of minorities has become such a nerve-wrenching blowback to the weak White in our society….
Hamza Waqas [TW: Mention of Mob Violence, Sectarian Violence] Firaaq, directed by Nindita Das, is a political drama set in India that depicts the aftermath of the Gujarat Riots of 2002 through the eyes of ordinary citizens. . Featuring Nawazuddin Saddique, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Raghubir Yadav and Shahana Goswami, Firaaq came out in 2008,…
By Ehtesham Hassan In Pakistan, it doesn’t take much before you can be labelled an infidel or traitor. Unfortunately, the very social media, which is supposed to be the bastion of democratic voices, is contributing to this ‘noise’. And how. Early this year, the news about the graves of members of the Ahmadiyya community being…
Every year students across the country unite and march on the roads in the name of “students solidarity march”. This year they’ll march on 27th November. What makes them go out on the roads? Why don’t they focus on their studies? Let’s delve deep into statistics to see what’s wrong. The 9th of February 1984…
Arooj Aurangzeb The word union is borrowed from old French and late Latin, meaning ‘one, unity/the state of being united or being undivided, uniting/action of uniting into one political body.’ If we are to remain true to the essence of the word ‘union,’ then student unions should be a platform where students of Pakistan and…
Hamza Wyne Bertolt Brecht once said “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participate in the political events. The imbecile doesn’t know that from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all.” These are the lines on which student unions are…
