Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2012-07-12 to 2012-10-17). Top authors: Viewpoint
Madeeha Gauhar, co-founder of the Pakistani theatre group Ajoka, speaks to Himal. Pakistani theatre group Ajoka has entertained audiences across Southasia for the last 28 years, while its fight for social justice and a secular Pakistan has been internationally …
P akistan in recent years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama’s surge into Af-Pak has taken shape over the last 12 months, the country and its people have been thrust to the forefront of politica …
Eighteen months after mass protests and strikes ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from power, the basic aspirations that drove Egypt’s uprising remain largely unfulfilled. The vast majority of the population has seen little substantive improvement in living condit …
Because we lack institutions that produce knowledge, even educated people fall back upon false prophets like a water car “engineer” who promises to resolve the collective challenge of Pakistan’s energy crisis A study of communication technology and social chan …
As the great world leader, John F Kennedy had once said, ask not what your army can do for you, ask what you can do for your army I am afraid that the Americans have driven me to distraction. They have refused cough up or to shut up. In the end I had to crawl …
My contemporaries like Abdullah Hussain, Intizar Hussain, Mustansar Husain Tarar have their own place in Urdu literature and I don’t want to pass a judgment on their books. But maybe what they write doesn’t interest me much An articulate professor of philosoph …
We must stop simply mimicking whatever trends are catching on in the west. It is the kind of error that leads Dr. Eric to think a politics of social democracy, which isn’t even suitable for Glasgow anymore, is somehow suitable for Gwadar. Social democracy has …
Two years back it was disclosed that 17 banned militant groups were openly raising funds through religious gatherings, certificated award ceremonies, and meetings held in the name of social welfare There were at least 162 registered charity organizations in Pa …
From the perspective of the Left, the most pressing task is to imagine a politics that is not confined within the repressive frameworks of our contemporary political scene A little over two decades ago, the ideologues of neo-liberal capitalism were proudly dec …
It is really amazing to see ‘pious’ and ‘religious’ Mohammad Yousaf, an erstwhile Christian now converted to Islam, advocating the use of the ‘Judeo-Christian’ world’s branded soft-drinks and shampoos for the sake of money Pakistan is a state experiencing Isla …
Players couldn't have escaped the changing veneer of the society triggered largely by anti-American sentiments and by what most Pakistanis and the Islamic world interpret as war against Islam ‘Never in my career was I offered to throw a match,’ says Ramiz Raja …
Satans decided to flout the supremacy of the Lord God and Lord Chief Justice and prayed on the innocent to fix the test at the Lords. So it came to pass that three pious young men, favoured of God, fell into their trap and thence to Wandsworth Prison In the be …
Over 5000 people attended a jalsa in Faisalabad on Saturday to denounce the judgement by the anti-terrorist court that sentenced six power loom workers to 99 years each for demanding the implementation of the 17% wage increase announced by the government in 20 …
Thepersecution.org is a comprehensive web portal that documents the Ahmedi persecution. Unsurprisingly, it’s banned in Pakistan If you are an Ahmedi and by chance you are in Pakistan, the land of conspiracy theorists, non state actors and religious predators t …
For the Express Television Network, Shahid Afridi is going to educate the masses about how to gain spirituality during Ramazan! As the cricketer will be fasting throughout this holy month, he won't be able to play cricket. But to fill the monetary loss for mis …
Prof. Aamir Hamaqat Hussein (May Allah increase his ratings) was born in a manger on the 15th of Shaaban when the whole of the Ummah was praying that a Messiah come to them Our heartiest felicitations to the great philosopher of Islam and the scourge of the he …
Today there is only the cruel choice between continued American presence and Taliban rule After a trillion dollars and 2000 dead Americans, there is precious little to show as the U.S. heads towards its 2014 exit. America’s primary goal had been to create a st …
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Cassandra Balchin initially worked with Viewpoint and later The Frontier Post (1983-1991) and then with the publications of WLUML network An email from our mutual friend Gita Sahgal informs me that Cassandra Balchin passed away peacefully this morning in Londo …
Dear Readers, Sympathisers and Supporters! Ever since its re-launching on 21st May 2010 as an e-zine, Viewpoint has become an important progressive outlet for Pakistani left and liberal voices. Viewpoint is run by a team of volunteers and the content is largel …