Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2012-10-24 to 2012-11-29). Top authors: Viewpoint, Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Feyzi Ismail, Afia Shehrbano Zia, Arshad Mahmood
We hope you and our dear bhabi are well and partaking of the wholesome festive foods from the various wedding celebrations of the Prodigal Brother. May Allah expand his clan and bless him with obedient, God fearing and upright wives, as He has blessed Brother …
An AWP poster promises heaven to workers and peasants, youth and students, but has only ‘Izat’ (Respect) to offer to women. I always thought the left in Pakistan wants equality for women The formation of Awami Workers Party (AWP) --as a result of merger betwee …
Even in the ‘golden age’ of Islam, every king fought their own wars, sometimes against other Muslim kings to defend their throne other times to enlarge their empires. The kind of ‘jihad’ espoused by Syed Ahmad Barelvi or the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden has bee …
As if sexist men weren’t enough to judge us, at least I need a break from supposedly ‘pakeeza kahawateens’ to stop passing remarks at my back for something as personal as my dress Forget male misogynists; let us first talk about female misogynists. Alice Albin …
And frankly, not enough elite women are feminists. They, who have the power to make a difference and change, are silent on everyone’s behalf. They are comfortable in their own privilege and do not feel the need to advocate on behalf of all women When I was con …
Communist Party (UML) became closer to NGOs, the party also became more accepting of mainstream ideas and of a reformist approach to social change. The Maoists, on the other hand, had a conscious and relatively effective anti-NGO policy ‘The Maoists were succe …
Imran Khan types get mileage out of NGO bashing but are silent on madrassahs, Islamic charities or faith based development ‘Left feminists do not accept simplistic binaries that suggest NGOs-equals-imperialism,’ Afia Sheharbano Zia tells Viewpoint. Author of s …
For the first, our media mujahid does not enlighten us as to why has the Lord of the Worlds battered Haiti and Cuba through Sandy for an anti-Islam film produced by the USA. One really hopes the Lord knows that Cuba is Uncle Sam’s officially-designated ‘enemy …
There are slogans which call for death to blasphemers, death to America. The strong longing to detest, bringing death and destruction upon oneself or others is deeply embedded in these slogans; the desire to kill the “culprit” not through the application of la …
Over the years, the TTP eliminated the tribal leadership. Now, it appears to have arrived at a similar strategy with regard to the Pakistani media, considering it as an armed front in a war against Islam and deciding to eliminate liberal journalists, at least …
When PPP government came into power in 2008, the country’s external debt was $45 billion which has now increased to $61.5 billion Although successive governments in Pakistan have been acquiring foreign loans to meet their financial needs and all of them have t …
Anyone incensed by symbolic violence, such as the video in the US or cartoons in France, should retaliate with symbolic violence in the same way or with peaceful protest. Not through physical violence Muslims should ‘simply ignore the crazy provocations,’ Gilb …
Extremists, who in the beginning deemed Malala an icon of bravery, now consider her to be unworthy of all this care and attention. Facebook pages, text messages, and tweets denouncing her as an American agent have gone viral Fearless fighting characterizes bot …
Pervez Hoodbhoy, one of Pakistan’s leading public intellectuals, has recently been told by LUMS that it will not be offering him an extension of contract. The background to this unfortunate decision by this well-known University is explored in the light of the …
BY Dr. Muhammad Taqi J alib’s revolutionary poetry is in a league of its own in Urdu literature. Unlike the many greats including Faiz, Ahmed Faraz and Iftikhar Arif who were influenced by the Progressive Writers Movement as well as classical Urdu poetry and w …
For five years we have had a popularly elected government, but has this made Pakistan a democratic society? Not in the least. Many still go about whining and wishing that a uniformed saviour or some mythical messiah would emerge and rid them of this chaos call …
T he Viewpoint online has raised the above question for comments. The roots of the current wave of terrorism in Pakistan are to be found in what can be called Yankee-Bin Laden Jihad, instigated by the United States in the late 1970s, and supported financially …
This conspiracy theory of labeling Taliban as RAW/?CIA agents is also used To boost the morale of Pakistani armed forces and the general population when the army sees a need for any military operation or intervention Why a conspiracy theory created to portray …
The state police not only acted against the public interest, they cold bloodedly fired rounds of bullets on the un-armed villagers and killed five people including one woman and a six-month-old infant and an unborn baby and injured a dozen others. None of the …
If the actions of rulers cause droughts and floods, I wonder how you would explain the six-year-long drought suffered by Kabul when the Taliban were in power? Dear Maulana, I heard you talking to Junaid Jamshed during ‘Hayya al Falah’ aired by Geo TV (Aug 19). …
