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by Qudsia Aziz "Pakistan ka matlab kiya, la illaha illa lah" Does this imply the same thing today that it implied 65 years ago? The ideology of Pakistan has become fazed over by half truths and supposed brain-washing arguments over its validity. Today the previously stated phrase is thought to deliver a touch of "Islamic extremism". The remnants of a neocolonial ruling system have weakened

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by Saad Anis Two recent incidences have served to bring to the fore, issues brewing just under the surface in Muslim societies worldwide for the better part of a century. These are: the violent disruption of a mixed marathon in Gujranwala by activists of the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA); and a bill moved in the National Assembly, calling for a ban on women in advertising. Submitted privately

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by Ahmad Hasan This article can be downloaded as a Word document from here. In today’s world, we have global terrorism, global alliances, global technologies and global multinational giants whose commercial interests lie in producing more of the same for as many people as possible. But this globalization has its good as well as dire impacts on the world’s political system. The world

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A book review by Zainab Mahmood This review can also be downloaded as a Word document from here. The Abu Ghraib Investigations: The Official Reports of the Independent Panel and the Pentagon on the shocking prisoner Abuse in Iraq, edited by Steven Strasser with an introduction by Craig R Whitney. In light of of recent court proceedings ruling that General Sanchez is cleared of any

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by Nabeel Khan [This article can be downloaded as a Word document from here.] The recent victory of the Muttahaida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA) is being lauded as a watershed in history. It has been the first time ever that a religious party has been able to show a respectable result in the elections. Compared to their performance in the previous elections of 1993 and 1997 where the combined vote of the

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by Ahmad Hasan [This article can be downloaded as a Word document from here.] People could be seen dancing in the streets on the night of 12th October 1999, when airports had been taken over, telephones stopped working in Islamabad and Sharif’s home town Lahore; the Army had taken over the government. The whole world was expecting this not to mention Sharif himself, who had just

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A Study of Islamic and Western and Islamic Discourses by Ayesha Saeed and Ayesha Nawaz [This article may be downloaded as a Word Document from here] The incidents of Sept 11 highlighted the wide chasm that exists between the Muslim and the Western worlds. The Muslim world perceives the West as harboring a vitriolic agenda against them and Islamist organizations around the globe have called

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An Analysis Of American Policies by Ayesha Saeed [This article may be downloaded as a Word Document from here] In the late nineteenth century, British and Russian empires clashed over Afghanistan, in what Rudyard Kipling termed as "The Great Game". "The Great Game" of the nineteenth century was essentially fought for access to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea and involved only the two

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by ROHIT DE [This article may be downloaded as an HTML file from here] Till the 60s the world was a simple place. James Bond battled evil dictators propped by the Soviet Regime and bedded luscious Soviet spies who were usually called Olga and Natasha. But in the 90s Bond runs confused; there are evil media moguls and your occasional megalomaniacs but no KGB/ SPECTRE style classy organization.

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