The pseudo-liberal is essentially a bigot who parades under the illusion of being a liberal while pursuing a non-liberal agenda. Pseudo-liberals of Pakistan...
Tag - Urban Elites and Middle Class
Palwasha Zai Khan, a member of the PPP Human Rights Committee and also a member of the NA Foreign Affair Committee moved a private bill, seeking amendment...
چنگاری ڈاٹ کام 19 May 2010 پچھلے چند ماہ میں ایم کیو ایم نے اپنے آپ کو ’’ملک گیر‘‘ ’’قومی‘‘ پارٹی بنانے کا عمل تیز تر کردیا ہے۔ ا س میں کشمیر اور بلتستان میں...
On Wednesday 19th May 2010, the Lahore High Court, famous for acting as a “moral brigade” rather than judiciary, once again passed a strange order to ban...
The best was when a friend of mine told me about another such agitated Pakistani’s Facebook page. According to my friend, the following were the Facebook...
I have never been able to understand the cultural dynamics of what is called the Pakistan fashion industry, particularly the notion of holding ‘fashion weeks’...
Raza Habib Raja has contributed this piece to LUBP which was previously published at Chowk. Here is Mr Raja’s brief introduction in his own words: I am...
My article “Traitors and Reactionaries” which was just a satire has created this impression that I am some kind of a Taliban supporter or a media...
This note was recieved by the LUBP from one its senior readers, Chaudhary Ahmed Khan, as a response to Raza Habib’s posts on Pak Tea House and Chowk, and...
The cross-party consensus on Pakistan’s constitutional reforms is a shot in the arm of the parliament and strengthens the process of democratisation in the...
Pakistan’s power elite will increasingly come from the cities and not from the rural hinterland. This will have a profound impact not just on politics, but on...
Related article: The Civil Society Bulletin – by Abbas Baloch As always, NFP at his best (Aliarqam) We shall overrun! Source: Dawn Blog 1. Asif Ali Zardari is...
The obsession with the modern educated professional as a prototypical middle class Pakistani tends to shift focus away from those that are rarely educated in...
With Pakistan’s two main political parties looking exhausted by being made to play a continuous game of cat and mouse with the establishment, the new...
A herd of sheep? Nadeem F. Paracha Sunday, 14 Feb, 2010 What we have at hand as urban middle-class ‘activists’ are actually figurative sheep: NFP. There have...
The (misdirected) yearning for change Ayaz Amir The Pakistani non-voting middle class represents a strange phenomenon, a category waiting to be defined in some...
Incompetent or do-nothing or internally divided parliaments, however constitutionally or otherwise appointed, failed to satisfy the people’s demands. They...
Nauseous mumblings Nadeem F. Paracha Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009 RECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the...
Our colonial hang-ups Fly on the wall Thursday, November 12, 2009 (The News) Zafar Khalid Farooq We Pakistanis love to mock. As a nation we enjoy nothing more...
Habit of dishonesty Thursday, November 06, 2008 Kamila Hyat Throughout his nearly nine years in office, former president Pervez Musharraf spoke of eradicating...
Confronting militancyMonday, October 20, 2008by Raza Rumi It is time that the vocabulary introduced by the global imperial projects is changed in Pakistan. The...
