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Articles with tag: Conservative

Urban Middle Class’s Steady Descent Into Conservatism and Religious Right

Raza Habib   Apr 23, 2009   interacts: 270

The latest stance being that terrorism is just a “reaction� and nothing else. The most banal argument is that if Pakistan stops attacking their “own� countrymen, the hardliners will throw weapons.

Oh My God

Shoaib Daniyal   Feb 18, 2009   interacts: 107

Every few days Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs or barbers pop up out of nowhere claiming that their sensibilities have been hurt.

The Other Side

Omer Aijazi   Dec 20, 2008   interacts: 15

There is not much value in trying to judge the world and maybe slightly more in trying to change it. But real power lies in understanding people around us and their motivations.

Free to Breed

Nadeem F Paracha   Aug 31, 2008   interacts: 43

How come there is no "talk" on TV when a group of fanatics attack a concert, a painting exhibition, a "mixed function" at a college, or force the way the fanatics deem "correct?"

The War and its Advocate: Michael Kelly Killed in Iraq

Abul K Islam   Apr 6, 2003   interacts: 27

The War kills its own uncompromising advocate.

Ich bin ein Mussulman

Rehan Ansari   Mar 25, 2003   interacts: 98

the conquest of the Middle East is only a smart aleck way of referring to what is true

Is It A War On Islam?

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jan 16, 2003   interacts: 172

What, then, should be the strategy for all those who believe in a just world and are appalled by America's war on the weak?

Oh America!

Farzana Versey   Jan 12, 2003   interacts: 80

For a society that watched the Gulf war as though it were a TV serial, why was I often told not to take pictures of people in the street?

Hypocrisy Big

Haroon Moghul   Nov 17, 2002   interacts: 171

Is America an Empire? Is the Pope Catholic?

The Day Of All Days

Feroz R Khan   Sep 9, 2002   interacts: 49

Pakistan will re-take its first fledging steps towards democracy

Road Blocks in Normalising Relations

Bundchungal    Sep 8, 2002   interacts: 55

If cross border terrorism ceases, facilitating a dialogue between India and Pakistan, will a dividend of long term peace follow?

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 3 (The Prostitute)

Umair Raja and Omer Rafique    Feb 18, 2002   interacts: 13

“Do you play chess, Mr. Prime Minister?”

In Search of the Moderate Muslim

Farzana Versey   Oct 28, 2001   interacts: 566

Indian society’s latest fad

A Letter Home

Terry Burns   Oct 24, 2001   interacts: 355

An American teacher’s perspective

Journalists or Americans?

Shandana Minhas   Oct 21, 2001   interacts: 104

Is Islamist even a word?

Talking to Vajpayee

Mushahid Hussain   Jun 18, 2001   interacts: 371

Vajpayee has demonstrated that he can be different

A Long Night’s Odyssey

Feroz R Khan   Nov 18, 2000   interacts: 173

we do not have the luxury of time

Connected to: Harsh Kapoor

Nausheen Saleem   Sep 2, 1999   interacts: 4

SPIDER talks to Cyber Warrior Harsh Kapoor about his stance on the recent blocking of the Dawn Internet Edition in India

Love in the Time of Kargil

Amitava Kumar   Sep 1, 1999   interacts: 83

I am Indian. My wife, Mona, is Pakistani. We got married in Toronto last week

A Road To Siachen

Feroz R Khan   Jul 4, 1999   interacts: 81

An analysis of the Pakistani military thought and its interests in the present crisis

What Is Your Caste?

Udayakumar    Sep 23, 1998   interacts: 8

Caste is South Asia’s apartheid

Repercussions of Nuclearization

Saba Khattak   Sep 6, 1998   interacts: 4

The question of women and public space in the nuclear debate hardly exists in the popular imagination

Death of the Raj: Subcontinent in the Third Millennium

Sohail Rabbani   Oct 24, 1997   interacts: 17

The second of two articles outlining a new definition of Pakistan and the Indian sub-continent. Ready your pens for aggressive interaction.

My Crimson Reality

Dervish    Oct 24, 1997   interacts: 4

In which the poet, in the best traditions of Meer, Dard, Ghalib, seems to prefer reality in an intoxicating red shade.

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