ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, gathered on Monday outside his hilltop mansion in the capital, vowing to prevent his arrest on anti-terrorism accusations, officials of his political party said. The move follows a police case filed against Khan on Saturday for threatening government officials in...
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA New Delhi, India – As India celebrates 75 years of independence, the country’s Muslims and other minorities say they find themselves in a state of siege. Ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014, the South Asian nation has lunged rightwards under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with an overt and organised state patronage...
By Amjad Mahmood Every tribe, ethnicity, empire, dynasty, and nation for ages has held some form of authority, power, and influence during different segments of recorded history. This instinct stemmed from basic human traits to fight, resist, survive on its own terms, adapt somewhere and forcing own will whenever possible or permitted. Each seat of...
By Dr Majid Khan Nathan Roger argues in his book Image Warfare in War on Terror that the mass media system has been shifted to a rhizomatic (grows horizontally under the ground) media system. That system relates to deterritorialized (take the control of) circulations and weaponization of images and this has resulted the paradigm shift...
Islamabad (correspondent): Afghan citizens have been protesting in Islamabad against the US government and its allies since the fall of Kabul. Advocate Pir Fida Hussain Hashmi filed a petition at Islamabad high court seeking clarification from the authorities (Ministry of Foreign Office and Interior) on the legal position & authenticity for protesting of the Afghan...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s leading athlete, Arshad Nadeem, set a new record in Commonwealth Games in the early hours of Monday and won a gold medal for his country in Men’s Javelin Final by throwing 90.18 meters in his fifth attempt. Nadeem’s exceptional performance brought Pakistan’s medals tally in the ongoing games to eight. Prior to that,...
Pakistan 218 (Babar 119, Jayasuriya 5-82) and 344 for 6 (Shafique 160*, Babar 55, Jayasuriya 4-135) beat Sri Lanka 222 (Chandimal 76, Shaheen 4-58) and 337 (Chandimal 94*, Kusal Mendis 76, Oshada 64, Nawaz 3-88) by four wickets A tense final morning, in which Pakistan had 120 to get with seven wickets in hand, began with the closest...
By Dr Majid Khan Dr Mughees Sheikh writes in his doctoral thesis, “After the end of the Cold War, Islam will be an eminent ‘threat candidate’ for the US media”. Mughees Sheikh’s findings in 1992 did predict the inception of a socio-political and media discourse that we now call Islamophobia. But Islamophobia comes into the...
ISLAMABAD (Correspondent): According to Indian media, the Indian Army today produced a 33-page dossier document containing a claim of a “terrorist attack” against India by Pakistan. In response to this blame, Pakistan, FO said: A well-documented campaign for state terrorism and widespread human rights abuses at IIOJK. A FO spokesman emphasized that there have been...
By Muhammad Azhar Kaleem During the early colonial era, Europeans founded their first colonies in Africa. In the 16th century, the Portuguese settled in Angola and Mozambique while in 1652 the Dutch founded a colony in South Africa. In the late 19th century Europeans colonized most of Africa, South Asia and some other regions, primarily...