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Posts Tagged ‘Politics (Urdu)’

Stay Divided and See The Fall

By Rai Azlan • Jul 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Question is simple, “why you people hate MQM?” this question was asked by my Faisalabadi friend from my other friend who is Sindhi. By that time, I realised that politics is going to be the dessert of the dinner that I was trying to finish. The statement of Senior Minister of Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza [...]



Pushtun and Urdu Nations

By Nadeem Ahmed • Jul 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A nation evolves out of one language and one culture, the members of a nation usually have common ancestors and history and they frequently intermarry. This means that national character involves blood relations and thus they also share occasionally a common race. Every nation has its own definition of National-Interest like an individual person according [...]



Ethnicity and Linguistic Imperialism

By Saadi Agha • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There has been a recurring debate in last week’s papers about the power of language in shaping the trends and environment in a nation. Renowned linguistic science professor, Tariq Rehman explained the permeation of English in our society, he used the example of call centers.
He has explained the relevance of shaping employee ideas and thoughts [...]



Self-Rule for the People of Northern Areas

By ahsan • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The declaration of “Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009” has not only fulfilled the longstanding demand of the people of Northern Areas for self-rule on the lines of AJK type of governance, it will also frustrate the nefarious designs of Indian external strike in Northern Areas.  It is beyond doubt that the Northern Areas of [...]



Pakistan: Social Injustice

By Saleem Khan • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Social Injustice’ is a concept relating to the perceived unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens. The concept is distinct from those of justice in law, which may or may not be considered moral in practice. Social Injustice arises when equals are treated unequally and unequal are treated equally.
United [...]



PLAGI ( Plagiarism ) - A New Disease

By Rohail Butt • Feb 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Plagiarism is recently observed to be a most dangerous and wide spread disease to affect the talented people because it masks the creativity and weakens the ability to reckon one’s hidden creativity. It also stimulates the guilt by providing the shortcut ideas towards achieving the tasks in much less time and hardly any serious mind [...]