Birth Defects and Stunted Development: Role of the Students Movement
Pakistan, ostensibly created to safeguard the interest of the Muslims of India, but in actual fact to save the Muslim landowners of West Pakistan from land reforms which were on…
Syed Ehtisham
Negotiations for Transfer of Power and Partition
In the early days of World War II, activism was in a state of suspended animation on the political front in India. Nearly the whole of the Congress…
Genesis of Right Wing Islamic Activism
The US believed that Muslims between Greece and China, ‘The Arc of Islam’ would function as fire wall against the USSR, and might even incite the restive Muslims inside the…
Fundamentalists Can’t Live Together
Religious revival and highly charged conflicts in a shrinking world make it difficult for people of competing faiths to live together. Fundamentalists of all creeds exhibit a striking…
The Dispossessed and the Downtrodden of the Earth
Jean Paul Sartre in the preface to, 'The Wretched of the Earth: The European elite manufactured a native elite by picking up promising adolescents, branded them with western culture,…
Genesis of Right Wing Islamic Activism
The US believed that Muslims between Greece and China, The Arc of Islam would function as fire wall against the USSR, and might even incite the restive Muslims inside the…
1857 War of Independence to 1930s
My ancestors were directly affected by the momentous turn history took. Though not in the eye of the storm, living far from the center of action, and being…
Religion in Early Civilizations
Humans started building cities four thousand years ago, in Mesopotamia, then in Egypt, China, India. 1. Complexities of life arose, Myth of Cain, Ziggurat, Tower of Bavel. Human empowerment…
Life And Times Of South Asian Diaspora
South Asians have a long and honorable history of migration. They took to the high seas for adventure or to escape political persecution for daring to challenge foreign rule. A…
Alternate Media in the USA
I would like us to give serious consideration to alternative media in the USA. I know a lot of us watch/listen to NPR, Pacifica Radio, Link TV and Democracy now.…
The Dispossessed and Downtrodden of the Earth
Jean Paul Sartre in the preface to, 'The Wretched of the Earth: The European elite manufactured a native elite by picking up promising adolescents, branded them with western culture, stuffed…
Student Movement in Pakistan
“Hum jo Tareek rahoan mein marai gai,” (We, who were ambushed in dark alleys…) — Faiz Ahmad Faiz.1 During their 200-year rule over India, the British colonizers had, among other…
Evil Quad Of Pakistan
My submission is that the Feudal system, Army, Bureucrats and Mullahs constitue the Evil Quad of Pakistan. What do we mean by feudalism? It has several facets-moral and ethical values,…
Pakistan from 1947 to now
The problems Pakistan has faced over time. Here they are in brief: 1-The population explosion. 2-Education and health care. 3-Unemployment. 4-Water and Electricity. 5-Public works. 6-Discrimination against 'other' sects, non-Muslims,…
Corruption in Pakistan: Civil, Judicial, political and Military – An Overview
Corruption in the sense of civil and military servants and Public officials and politicians of Pakistan pocketing public funds or taking bribes is too well known and documented by in-country…
Neo-Imperialism and Indigenous People
"Suppose there are ten people in this room. Seven are starving, and one is winning medals, and two are doing OK. And I say, 'Look at these seven people…
A Brief history of Neo-imperialism-History and Methods
Till the 1960's, Neoliberalism had the same status in economics as Wahhabism (a supremacist, fundamentalist and intolerant version of Islam) had in Islam. (1). How it became the guiding principle of Western countries…
The Wretched of the USA
America is the richest nation in history, yet it has the highest poverty rate in the industrialized world with an unprecedented amount of Americans living in dire straits. Over 50…
Role of Religion in violence: A Historic review of its Genesis
Organized religion is like organized crime. It preys on people’s weaknesses, generates huge profits for its operators and is almost impossible to eradicate-Mike Hermann The above quote is defeatist. Violence…
Decline and Fall of Ayub BD Civil War-Genocide of Bengalis
In his weakened post-1965 war state, Ayub could never hope to withstand the combined onslaught of East and West Pakistan. The campaign against him, led initially by students…
Corruption in Pakistan – NGOs, the U.S.A.
An Overview Corruption in the sense of civil and military servants and Public officials and politicians of Pakistan pocketing public funds or taking bribes is too well known and documented…
Feudalism in Pakistan and Capitalism the World Over
Pakistani expatriates in the USA have developed a consensus that the genesis of what ails Pakistan can be traced to the feudal system our former colonial masters imposed on India…
Status of Women in Islam
In order to understand the edicts of a religion in an objective fashion, one has to look at the norms of the times the religion was offered. Islam was…
Genesis of Capitalism
Marxists advocate bourgeois revolution to break the fetters of feudalism. Capitalist markets are only the most advanced form of exchange. Industrialization was the inevitable outcome of human instincts. In the…
How the World was Transformed
19th century civilization was based on balance of power, gold standard, self- regulating markets and liberal state. Self-adjusting market is a Utopia and could not…
Role of Religion in Modern Society
Humanity carries an historical baggage. Religion is arguably the most important component of the burden. Defined as a set of beliefs in the super natural causation of natural phenomenon, it…
Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism
There are literally thousands of NGOs, the better known being Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International . NGOs are primarily a modern phenomenon, though The World Alliance of YMCAs was founded…
The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: IMF, WTO and WB role in promoting poverty and misery
IMF and WB do not function like UN agencies on a ‘One nation, one vote’ system. Voting power is pegged to the size of economy and on financial contribution to…
Western Aid: Myth and Reality
The West seeks to preserve present relations, which enable it to make immense profits by exploiting natural and manpower resources of the whole world. It also molds socioeconomic development of…
Religions, Female Virginity and Fidelity
Violence against women has been a universal phenomenon in the East and the West. In the West measures have been taken against it. They have met a certain degree of…
Fundamentalists Can’t Live Together
Religious revival and highly charged conflicts in a shrinking world make it difficult for people of competing faiths to live together. Fundamentalists of all creeds exhibit a striking commonality;…
Mercenaries of Capitalism
“Economic Hitmen (EHM) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the Globe of trillions of dollars…funnel money from W.B, US.AID, …into coffers of huge corporations and into the pockets of…
The Captive Media in the USA
“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer A media system set up to serve the…
The Captive Media in the USA
“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer A media system set up to serve the…
Religion is not Rational
Religion is not rational, yet attempts are made all the time to prove it is. One example is the Templeton Study. The Templeton Foundation arranged for Christians to pray for 1800…
Democracy is a Function of Capitalism
An Overview of Systems of Government. H.L. Mencken said the typical American voter was a boob and the system was booboisie. In order to understand the submission “ Democracy is…
Bhutto and the Bomb-Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Bhutto fell victim to a delusion, common to all tin pot dictators; he started taking his own bombast seriously and made a critical mistake. He called a conference of all…
Fundamentalists -Their Thought Process, Attitude towards others specially Women-Role of Nationalism
Religious revival and highly charged conflicts in a shrinking world make it difficult for people of competing faiths to live together. Fundamentalists of all creeds exhibit a striking commonality; an…
Impact of Religion-Colonialism on Mental Health
In the 17th century AD, a wave of depression struck Europe. It seemed to affect especially men of genius-John Bunyan, Thomas Gray, John Donne, and Samuel Johnson in England, Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
Honor Killing – An Overview
Of all the evils spawned by the tribal/feudal society, honor killing is arguably the most heinous. Apologists try to equate it with “crime of passion” but crimes of passion are…
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