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Published in 1986, ‘Facts are Facts’ by the late Wali Khan was an instant hit. ‘Facts are Facts’ is an attempt to contest text book versions of Pakistan’s history. In a bid to generate debate, the Viewpoint is serializing this text Mullahs and Khans: The Briti …
I was in a Bangkok criminal court yesterday to show solidarity with Samyot Prueksakasemsuk, a Thai labour activist and editor of Voice of Thaksin. He is been charged to defame, insult or threaten the King Bhumipol Adulyadej of the kingdom of Thailand through t …
The Mubarak family still believe it was Al Jazeera wot did it. Without the Qatari satellite channel's constant live coverage of Tahrir Square last January and February, so the story goes, the Emperor Hosni would still be on Egypt's throne, his hair as dyed as …
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In the town of Ségou in south-central Mali, Salif Kanté is grappling with the increased costs of basic cereals. ‘I recently purchased my family’s food stock for 2012. I spent almost twice as much as I did last year for the same quantity,’ says Kanté, a worker …
So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we're going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi one, which is a war at 60-a-day fatalities (pretty much equal with Syria's dail …
The petition itself, though littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, is poisonous drivel supposedly to terrorise into silence the journalists, media persons and activists associated or thought to be associated with SAFMA. Never a dull moment in …
If you asked a cartographer where Europe’s boundary was to the east, you might expect a simple answer, but you would be wrong: its western boundary is obvious, they would say, because there is the ocean, but to the east it’s more complicated. Experts define bo …
The reception in Uganda to the KONY 2012 viral video has been unanimously negative. From journalists, academics and bloggers to local NGO workers and local people at a public screening in the northern town of Lira , Ugandans have reacted angrily to their count …
A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid …
In an interview to the journal Science, the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh, chose to focus on two hazardous technologies – genetically engineered seeds and crops in agriculture and nuclear power – as vital to the progress of science in India, and th …
Syria's bloodbath is carving further divisions in Lebanon as President Bashar al-Assad's Lebanese allies and enemies shout more and more insults at each other. The Christians have even divided among themselves, the old Phalangist leadership calling for Assad's …
One year after the start of a revolutionary process which swept through the Arab region and continues today, International Viewpoint asked Gilbert Achcar to look at the current state of play throughout the region. This interview was conducted on December 14, 2 …
If the civilian government in Pakistan survives its current confrontation with the courts and the military, the big winner may be the playboy international cricket star often dismissed as a political gadfly, Imran Khan. The crisis that has been building since …
On September 23, 2011, at about three in the morning, within hours of his arrival at the Delhi airport, the US radio journalist David Barsamian was deported. This dangerous man, who produces independent, free-to-air programs for public radio, has been visiting …
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(Faiz Sahib’s editorial of the Pakistan Times dated August 15, 1947. The original title was: August 15) It is August 15 today. The dawn that brought this day into the world also restored to our people their long-lost freedom. Through many bleak decades of poli …
Dear friends and comrades, The National Students Federation formally came alive after a period of more than two decades on 25 th -26 th November in Faisalabad, upon successfully concluding its two-day NSF Punjab Convention (the first NSF convention to be held …
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the marketplace all that seemed fixed and frozen since the revolution in 1949, but -- as with all other forms of capitalism -- this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of aut …
In September 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India organized an exhibition on the Quran at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. It highlighted the teachings of the Quran under a wide range of headings: Justice; Suffering; Death; Science; Peace; Wome …