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The facade of long marches

Viewpoint · Jan 10, 2013

Qadri accentuates politics but not economics, form and not the content, effects and not the cause, mythology and not the reality. He talks about the abolition of feudalism but not a word about the overthrow of capitalism Yet another facade of a movement has be …

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The struggle in Balochistan

Viewpoint · Jan 10, 2013

In the six decades since Pakistan was founded, there have been five uprisings — three minor ones in 1948, 1958-1960, the mid-1960s, a major insurgency between 1973-1977, and a low-level conflict beginning in the early 2000s that festers to this day Over the el …

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War against polio or polio workers?

Viewpoint · Jan 10, 2013

One fatwa also declared that, “it was a Muslim man’s duty to kidnap the women health workers when they paid home visits, to marry them forcibly even if they were already married women, or to use them as sexual slaves” - maal e ghaniymat – spoils of war Barely …

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Was an Indian soldier decapitated at the LoC or not? Shivam Vij

Viewpoint · Jan 10, 2013

In this sickening image, one of the most extreme in The Disasters of War series, the naked bodies of mutilated, tortured and castrated men are shown hung from a tree as a warning to others. Goya was one of the first artists to reveal the grim reality of warfar …

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Why is violence against women on the rise in post-conflict Afghanistan?

Viewpoint · Jan 10, 2013

One of the mistakes in Afghanistan was to preach liberation to women without enlisting the men as equal partners As the departure of US troops approaches and negotiations with Taliban gain respectability, violence against women has been on the increase in Afgh …

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Submissions

Viewpoint · Jan 6, 2013

Submissions Mail your submissions to We accept article submissions from anyone who can add desirable content to our pages. We do have some simple rules: 1) Please keep your submissions on topic. 2) Please include a short (one small paragraph) bio with your pie …

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Indian elections: Muslim voters

Tufail Ahmad · Jan 6, 2013

Congress, which boasts of being a secular party, committed monumental errors of political dishonesty during the election campaigns to win Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh. The only winners of the political practice of Congress are the Darul Uloom Deoband, which …

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Redaktion

Viewpoint · Jan 6, 2013

Redaktion Adnan Farooq Adnan Farooq has worked with daily The Nation, Lahore and daily Jang, Lahore. He has also volunteered for Milieudefensie, Amsterdam. Friends of the earth, Europe, on environmental issues. He has been working with ON FILE, an Amsterdam-ba …

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Religion in the age of wisdom

Naeem Ashraf · Jan 3, 2013

Sikhism emerged in 1469 AD. After that no religion could prevail. Why? The answer is that human race has generally become more conscious and has started questioning the relevance of divinity It is estimated that some 50,000 years ago humans developed the psych …

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Neocolonialism & imperialism

Riaz ul Hassan · Jan 1, 2013

Between 1966 and 1976 Africa experienced 109 coup attempts of where 51 were successful and 58 were unsuccessful The term neocolonialism is not very fashionable in this age of globalization even if it remains very valid. Attributed to the first postcolonial pre …

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We call this progress: Arundhati Roy

Viewpoint · Jan 1, 2013

From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion. I don’t know how far back in history to begin, so I’ll lay the milestone down in the recent past. I’ll start in the early 1990s, not long after …

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Chastity as oppression

Duriya Hashmi · Dec 31, 2012

An array of traditional and popular advertising across the country enchants the male customers to buy elixirs for impotency, but aborting an unwanted pregnancy is a hush-hush matter. The Urdu word for ‘menopause’ i.e. san e yas which means ‘age of despair’ den …

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Feroz Ahmed

Hassan N. Gardezi · Dec 31, 2012

Yet, whatever the terms used for Pakistan’s cultural pluralism and disparities of political power and economic privilege, Feroz remained steadfast in his conviction that all culturally and linguistically distinct entities of Pakistan must have equal rights and …

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Brinkmanship, PPP govt's trademark

Mariam Goraya · Dec 31, 2012

If you can summarize the governing style of PPP in one word, its 'brinkmanship'! Those of the ruling party, who know what it means, practice it very well while the rest would like to sulk in their glorious past Dude I told you to be at Benazir Chowk did you re …

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Let's burn the bras!

Ammar Aziz · Dec 31, 2012

In the phallic culture we live in, there’s an ancient desire of an ‘ideal woman’, a woman who is so ‘perfect’ in fulfilling man’s sexual needs. Thus the whole existence of women has been confined to their sexual role. Bras serve as a tool to represent that des …

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Post-9/11 USA & American Muslims

Dr. Qaisar Abbas · Dec 31, 2012

American Muslims are questioning why they are increasingly becoming the target of hate and discrimination when majority of the 9/11 attackers came from abroad T he post-9/11 America has brought a mixed bag of curse and blessing for American Muslims during the …

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Tehreek e Tetanus Pakistan

Viewpoint · Dec 20, 2012

Vaccination has been invented by the infidel Christians and is clearly designed to undermine the House of Islam. It is against nature and the laws of nature. Polio vaccine will sterilise the sons of Islam and will deprive the world of the likes of Yours Truly …

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Defeat in the West

Waseem Altaf · Dec 14, 2012

Pakistan lost half its navy, a quarter of its air force and a third of its army. Pakistan suffered most, with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded while India lost 3,000 lives and 12,000 wounded.14000 square kilometers of land was captured by the Indian army on the …

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Anti-Semitism & capitalist crisis

Viewpoint · Dec 13, 2012

Far from being a product of the development of the productive forces, Zionism is precisely the consequence of the complete halt of this development, the result of the petrifaction of capitalism Note: The bulk of the material on the history of the Jews stems fr …

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Lady Gaga and liberals: A dummies guide to an earlier ‘complicated’ article on the New Liberals in The News

Viewpoint · Dec 13, 2012

For these Not-liberal Liberals, all problems for Pakistan started with 9/11 and will inshallah, end with some sexy sounding date to match. 13/13, if an extra month can be added to next year A new breed of patriots, conceived in Pakistan’s drawing rooms, have s …

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