Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, have been key protagonists in the counter-revolutionary wave unleashed against the uprisings. Indeed, 2011 has clear...
Over the past week, at least seven people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Egypt. Violence erupted last Friday in the town of Al-Khosous, north of the c...
Sabir Nazar has been working with Lahore-based weekly The Friday Times since 1991 and with Pakistan Today. Sabir Nazar did his Masters in painting from Lahore's...
“Can you imagine the psychology of my soldiers when they stand here all day, knowing that one of these cars could be a suicide bomber?” The Syrian army colonel ...
In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is depo...
Issue 527 th carries a vitriolic against cartoons. Titled ‘cartoons ka zeher’[The cartoon poison], this story narrates the case of school teacher horrified at h...
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and all its legal and social systems flow from that basic standpoint. Here crops a fundamental question: what is Islamic about Monarc...
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is now forty years old. It is rated among the worst functioning reactors of the world. Situated on the Arabian Sea, it was ...
Since the economic liberalization of the early 90’s, Indian electronic media scene has changed from a state-monopolized single channel to market-oriented multic...
"I know, I'm not as tall as you'd like," Sharif explained. "I'm not as fit as you'd like. I'm fat, and I'm old. But I would still like to be your friend." Below...
He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf, and he wanted to hire a maid. She was a single mom...
The Pakistani state has done little to protect the Hazaras. As I said, some institutions of the state are involved in supporting the organizations that carry ou...
“Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice” means that pornography causes rape and other violence against women. That's why I can get closer to this appro...
He subscribed to the Western form of democracy and endorsed voting rights of individuals while opposing women’s emancipation. Validating the Soviet wave of Marx...
The fourteen years of Chavista government have seen important advances in the standard of living of the people made possible by exceptional prices per barrel of...
Can human beings come up with a model of survival that does not depend on constantly wiping out all other species? When grandpa once told me that human beings e...
There are seventeen AWP members running from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 6 for the National Assembly and the rest for the provincial. The major focus of our elections w...
In a number of cases our attitude and behavior towards animals is bizarre. Why should we hate pigs and what is the logic behind abhorring a creature which is as...
The USA had no problem in recognising a victory of Felipe Calderon in Mexico in 2006 with less than 0.2 per cent of the vote The victory of Nicolas Maduro in pr...
We will march forward in unison, with inspiring leaders of the Ummah such as Maulana Ludhianvi and Malik Mumtaz Qadri to achieve the ideal that our forefathers ...
