It [teaching] is a task that requires that those who commit themselves to teaching develop a certain love not only for others but also of the very process implied in teaching. It is impossible to teach without courage to love, without courage to try a thousand times before giving up. It is impossible to teach without forged, invented, and well—thought—out capacity to love. Paulo Freire

In its glitzy days The Progressive Writers’ Movement, with its emphasi...

Editor’s note: We are cross-posting a five-series article titled “Voices from FATA and the panic” recently published in Daily Times. In this series Farhat Taj present a Pashtun nationalist perspective on issues of ethnic and provincial identity and the war on terror. In particular, she highlights the concerns of the Pashtun population of FATA and KP about Pakistani state’s policies of strategic depth and Jihad enterprise.

Farhat’s critica...

By: Malik Siraj Akbar
Published: 9th February, 2012 Dawn.com

While some officials from the government and non-governmental organisations have only expressed concern over the situation, other individuals, including former army soldiers, State department officials and members of the US Congress, have now begun to publicly assert support for an independent Balochistan. —Photo by Reuters

The United States (US) Committee on Foreign Affairs is set to convene a congressional hearing on Wednes...

Human rights activists hope the hearing will put ongoing torture and killings in Balochistan in the public eye.

Below is an article published by Dawn:

The United States (US) Committee on Foreign Affairs is set to convene a congressional hearing on Wednesday (February 8 2012), for an exclusive discussion on Balochistan.

The extraordinary event has generated great interest among followers of Pakistan-US relations, as the allies’ mutual relationship seems to be deteriorating. T...

The writer is a columnist, a former major of the Pakistan Army and served as press secretary to Benazir Bhutto

At last some sanity! After four weeks of mounting, and scathing comment in the domestic as well as foreign media, which all of us: politicians; Askari Qiadat particularly the Sipah Salaar-i-Azam and the Spymaster; honourable Justices, and us poor luckless citize...