Barbed wire, security check-posts, questioning by the security personnel asking for proof of identities – one might be forgiven for thinking it is an entry point to the beseiged Gaza strip in Palestine. But this is Mariabad—the Hazara locality in Quetta, Pakistan. The sectarian violence, bomb blasts, targeted killings caused fear in the city have […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court earlier this week headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed, while hearing a case regarding encroachments on Orangi and Gujjar Nullah at the Karachi Registry, directed the anti-encroachment department to continue its operation. Naya Daur Media spoke to activists and organizers who have been following these developments. On Monday, […]
140SharesToday, the 13th of February, is the birth anniversary of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), who I regard as the greatest Urdu poet of the 20th century (though I have also great regard for other Urdu poets like Firaq Gorakhpuri, of course). In 1981, when I was a lawyer in Allahabad High […]