Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Whether it be that sector of the Arab capitalist class that sponsors al Qaeda, or the capitalist regimes in the European Union who are devastating Greek society...
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven (London: Allen Lane), 2011; pp xvi + 560 (paper); GBP 16.99. The Future of Pakistan by Stephen P Cohen and Others (New...
From Che Guevara’s perspective, launching an armed struggle within a parliamentary system, as the Indian Maoists have done, is already a strategic error. But th...
One major theme was a number of panels where communalism and fascism were discussed. Little in these can be called mere repetition of well aired information. Se...
The enabling of the working class as leaders is the crucial task of all of us who want to see the working class movement reach its logical conclusion in Pakista...
Environmental sciences taught in our universities is a total farce when it comes to guarding animal rights in terms of their ecological and aesthetic value. Mos...
An architect from Jamia Millia Islamia has figured out how to minimize conflict between species India's urban dogs are an unfamiliar sight to a visitor. Their b...
When the Taliban took Kabul, they had to do various stages of decision-making to decide whether the zoo was halal or haram. They tried to stone the animals to d...
The democratic government that followed Zia should have revoked Articles 62 and 63 earlier. Because the military dictators need no tests and this pre-election a...
In simple words, we are trying to tell ourselves: if I lie to myself frequently enough that person X is my brother/sister; I will (hopefully) stop looking at hi...
It is important for the people of Asia to understand the true nature of the anti-Asia lobby in the West that is constantly pitching one nation against the other...
In the past two decade, Taliban have earned notoriety as perpetrators of massive atrocities. Besides losing ground among their own sympathizers, they are also l...
Allama Iqbal’s Child mujahids wishing to die in the path of Allah as well as misconceived notions of bravery, resistance, struggle, purity and sacrifice are the...
It occurs to me that you run a chain of boutiques selling expensive dresses. Cotton picking is almost exclusively a woman’s job. I have never seen women clad in...
"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 6...
Iqbal’s idea of God was a far cry from the personal God of monotheism. It was shorn of the traditional attributes of creation, omnipotence and omniscience with ...
They remained silent on the CJs stand/suo motto call for the need for Hindu Marriage laws, forced conversions/marriages in Sindh and the Lady Health Workers min...
Apparently, the two major contenders of power in the next election viz. the PML-N and the PTI have failed to identify terrorism as a major problem, let alone st...
Candidate should not only have the vision of developing ambitious plans in the interest of the Core Group, he should also have the courage to wake up every morn...
Corporate mysticism does not only purposefully exceed from its generic limitations but it also construes incongruent metaphors of modern socio-political system ...
