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حب الوطنی کا جھوٹا احساس

فیض کاکڑ: جنگوں کی وجوہات ریاستیں خود پیدا کرتی ہیں تاکہ بڑی افواج اورافسرِشاہی رکھنے اور بھاری ٹیکسوں کو جواز فراہم کیا جاسکے۔

In the Country of Men- Book Review

In the Coun­try of Men is the debut nov­el of a Libyan nov­el­ist Hisham Matar pub­lished in 2006 and short-list­ed for the year’s Man Book­er Prize. Matar tells a painful yet pow­er­ful sto­ry of a 9 years old boy, Suleiman, set apart for fif­teen years from his par­ents, Faraj and Najwa, by the repres­sive regime […]

Two Faces of Nationalism

What has actu­al­ly hap­pened in Pak­istan is quite the oppo­site as the Pak­istani state has con­sis­tent­ly main­tained a pol­i­cy of exclu­sion. It exclud­ed var­i­ous groups on the basis of reli­gion, eth­nic­i­ty and dif­fer­ence of polit­i­cal visions. It mis­tak­en­ly tried to define its nation­al­ism sole­ly in terms of reli­gion and a per­ma­nent neigh­bor­ing ene­my.