Found 858 articles matching your filters across English (2012-10-12 to 2012-10-23). Top authors: Viewpoint, Hakim Hazik, Zafar Iqbal, Raja Qaiser Ahmed, Adnan Farooq
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended -- though unknown to the public, only officially. The imag …
Let me make it very clear. We will not allow the attack on Caliphate of Waziristan under the fig leaf of the Malala attack. Waziristan is the heartland of Ummah and a beacon of hope for the oppressed of the world, especially the car thieves We condemn the atta …
Turn on the TV. There is breaking news about a 16-year-old girl who has gone missing. A few hours later, we learn that the abductors have contacted the missing girl's parents. The abductors, according to the news anchor, maintain that the girl was not kidnappe …
Gilgit Balitistan (GB) is not a free land but a colony of Islamabad. GB has no representation in the National Assembly, Senate. The Legislative Assembly has no right to decide the future of this region Baba Jan Hunzai is an activist who was imprisoned and tort …
Fourteen years ago, around the time young Rimsha Masih, now in jail under Pakistan's blasphemy law, was born, a Roman Catholic bishop walked into a courthouse in Sahiwal, quite close to my hometown in Central Punjab. The Right Rev John Joseph was no ordinary c …
The social fabric of Pakistan has been drastically revamped during Zia’s rule that has polarized the society in the name of ideological differences and intensified the drive for forced Islamization The structures of human association are primarily determined b …
There is a Punjabi word, now creeping into Pakistani Urdu as well – hudharam . It is reserved for the toiling workers both in rural and urban areas and invoked to keep them in line ‘The rag to riches phenomenon is not a common or normal occurrence. The very fa …
Christians alone are not oppressed rather everyone is a victim of violence in this country be it Muslim or non-Muslim Not many people acknowledge the role of Lollywood in shaping the cultural norms of Pakistani society, even fewer realize the fact that the fil …
The holiness of eggs--for once they broke it was all over--suddenly became a suspect Once upon a time, a man named Hakim, a seasoned traveller and a wise man, after having survived a shipwreck in Pacific Ocean, found himself washed ashore on the sands of an is …
It is normal that all those who believe in democracy — and democracy obviously presupposes secularism — fear the arrival of a fundamentalist religious force which takes as its source of legislation sacred texts rather than the will of the people. We all fear t …
In their interactions with the South, Chinese leaders have always affirmed that their country is a developing nation too, and that China will never replicate the unjust, exploitative behaviour of the former imperial powers. “China is the world’s largest develo …
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 Muslim League and princely s …
Obama - makes some populist appeal, such as for tax "fairness". However, he is immediately checked by the fact that he is completely dependent on finance capital - the Wall St. moguls. He relies on a series of them for both political as well as financial (camp …
In concluding that the African quest for self-determination ran its course by the liberation of the continent from foreign rule, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) decided that the boundaries inherited from colonialism were not to be tampered with It is l …
This looks like an evil version of the kind of thing the Yes Men do - a cheap media operation designed to have a disproportionate impact. So, what impact, and why now? A few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production valu …
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 …
Some young boys were curiously glancing through the pages of those books. Back home while reading the local daily I found that Pakistan was the number one country in the world in accessing pornographic sites It was Friday and I got up early in the morning. The …
Below is a press release issued, at the end of two-day moot, by the participants from Pakistan and Afghanistan Press Release: Left-wing parties from Pakistan and Afghanistan concluded a two-day conference in Lahore on October 7 and vowed to renew efforts to jo …
Rational thought in the Muslim world developed during the reign of liberal Muslim rulers of the Abbasid dynasty. However it was after the rise of scholars like Al-Ghazali that all scientific reasoning came to an end in the 13 th century As we remain enamored b …
Polygamous setup of Iqbal’s household was not very practical and could not last long. One day, the mother of Iqbal’s first wife came over, told Iqbal that he was a very irresponsible husband and took her daughter and her daughter’s kids away with her laazim ha …
