Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2010-05-25 to 2010-07-01). Top authors: Viewpoint
On January 1, 2009, young Oscar Grant was killed by a transit cop in Oakland , California . While lying face down with a cop kneeling on his neck, Grant was shot in the back by another cop as a crowd of train passengers watched in horror. Grant, was an African …
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that the rise of a new feminism - rooted in Islamic discourse, non-confrontational, privatized and persona …
My greatest fear is politics. Not because of some high-sounding pseudo-philosophical reason, but because politics, like its greatest practitioners, always looks at things in absolutes. There is always a black or a white. Politicians do deal in the greys, they …
"Any woman regardless of her dress, her faith----whether she is an atheist or believer----can join a mobilisation for women rights. The participation of all women, wearing or not wearing veils of any kind, in political and social activities should simply be we …
(I) Dr Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was the first and so far only Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in 1979. That he was an Ahmadi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the beards guarding the ever-expanding 'ideological frontiers' gave Dr Salam a treatment an Ahmedi …
The English Defense League (EDL) is the latest gang of racist street-fighters to crawl out of the rotten woodwork of British imperialism. These football hooligans with their shaved skinheads and in some cases Nazi tattoos have been swaggering through the Musli …
ISLAMABAD: Recently ranked as 'The Most Corrupt Province' by the Transparency International (TI) in its latest report on Pakistan, Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province has been rocked by a new corruption scandal as grave irregularities have been marked in the purchase …
"According to several estimates, Islamic organisations, many of which are linked to armed groups, can draw from a pool of money ranging from $5 billion to $16 billion, the Saudi government alone donates $ 10 billion via the ministry of Religious Works every ye …
Getting a reincarnation, though not in full, the Viewpoint needs very special reading and circulation by the leftist elements in Pakistan who can envisage a new paradigm based on social justice, tolerance and pluralism. I am a student of some of the great livi …
On Sunday, June 20, a successful protest against Israel was held on the docks of the Port of Oakland, California. Some 800 community and labor activists showed up at the time that a Zin (Israeli) Line ship was supposed to dock and be unloaded. The dock workers …
As the CIA was busy chiseling out Mujahideen back in 1980s, corporate publishing houses in West were working just as hard to publish books on Afghanistan. Even Hollywood every now and then would lend a helping hand (Rambo III). In the 1990s, Pamir hills lost t …
In the wake of September 11, when the USA was busy installing a puppet regime consisting of notorious warlords, the Human Rights Watch issued a backgrounder. A number of commanders associated with the new coalition of warlords had, according to HRW, a record o …
Who was the person, if not Hamid Mir, that talked to a terrorist and sealed the fate of the ex-ISI official, Khalid Khwaja? Who were the killers of Murtaza Bhutto if not those who were accused, tried, and then acquitted by the court? Who was the killer of Dani …
India is Pakistan's eternal enemy. Unless we defeat it in a nuclear war, it will keep plotting conspiracies against Pakistan, said Mr Majeed Nizami, the owner of the Nawa-i-Waqt, The Nation, and Waqt TV channel, while addressing a function in his honour (Nawa- …
India's leading environmentalist, Vandana Shiva had her "heart just sank" as she got off the flight, December last year, at Copenhagen airport, when the first thing she "saw was a Coca-Cola bottle" as sponsor for "Hopenhagen". Sponsored by notorious corporate …
An environmental disaster is spreading through the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. On April 20th, there was an explosion and then a fire on the deepwater oil drilling rig the "Deepwater Horizon" operated by Transocean Ltd. under contract from British Petroleum (BP) …
Tariq Ali was in Stockholm for the promotion of his book 'The Duel' (Swedish edition). In an interview with Viewpoint's Farooq Sulehria, Tariq Ali discusses his fictional works, particularly his Islam quintet. 'Night of the Golden Butterfly', last volume of th …
Pakistans external debt is continuously rising with alarming speed. In Feb 2008, when the new civilian government came into power, the country was facing a default like situation. After securing Stand By Agreement (SBA) worth $ 11.3 billion with IMF in Nov 200 …
It will not be easy for our future historians to determine which single action of the self-appointed President (Ayub Khan) and his Government of courtiers did the greatest harm to the national interest, for they will have a wide field to survey. Many will prob …
Viewpoint is intended to serve as an independent, non-partisan journal, owing allegiance not to any political party or group, but to the basic concepts of a democratic, progressive polity. Its primary aim is to invite serious attention to Pakistan's many probl …