Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Taliban’s brand of regimental Wahabyist Islam is actually attacking religious diversity and peaceful coexistence – a centuries old tradition of the land – is no...
I believe we are living among a generation of young people who are religiously concerned about the meaning of their lives but for whom the historically religiou...
Just because someone is rich, doesn’t mean that sexual abuse will not hurt Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the renowned Sitar player Ravi Shankar and a Sitar play...
Coca Cola sponsoring Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) or Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy receiving award from World Economic Forum may also be astonishing developments, ...
Bugti's killing provided real fuel to the movement and as the uprising took root, the military's excesses increased disproportionately. Moreover, the military e...
The big question isn‘t whether the regime will fall, but how soon. It’s in the best interests of the future of Syria that the regime falls very soon ‘I think it...
It all started when an old shaheen named Gen Uftad-ul-naHaque realizing that there were a lot of potential shaheens in his country who could save the nation for...
Today philosophy has to fulfill its duty by smashing modern idols and religions which controls our life by donning them in modern garbs, but religiously followi...
However, it is simplistic to attribute violence to a creed. The root cause of nearly all violent acts can be traced to economic factors. Religion provides a veh...
Women are portrayed as a ‘prize’, a ‘reward’ as if they have no feelings of their own. Like a trophy sitting in a cabinet that can be handed over to the winner;...
‘So long as the three great problems of the century – the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of women through hunger, the crippling of childre...
Clint Eastwood also attacked Obama for having been a lawyer. We shouldn't have attorneys for president, he commented to laughter and applause. But the dimwit wa...
Prof. Saba Dashtiari is one of the few Balochi fiction writers who has penned short stories depicting the plight of women living in the tribal areas of Balochis...
The presence of the ghost schools is also another display of sheer state apathy and its weak control over the schools. The government has identified 25,000 ghos...
Pakistan was one of the few Muslim countries to back the United Nations Development of Human Rights (UDHR) on the issue of Article 18, which was concerned with ...
More likely given her line of thinking, she was talking of the emotional non-integration of Kashmir with the rest of the nation. Maybe, the observation was her ...
Hope for them lies in the constitutional change and culturally located critiques such as Bol. Only through these, and not US cultural imperialism, shall they be...
The ‘nationalisation’ under Bhutto was in fact bureaucratisation of the industries. Bhutto’s nationalization did not imply either workers’ management and contro...
We do not have the resources to successfully counter even one man, Islam-supremacist Dr. Zakir Naik, who has been the focus of our attention since early days. T...
“In Pakistan, media personnel have always been used by the establishment and political powers, be it the coup d’état in 1999 or the formation of the IJI in 1992...
