Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Raheem Ullah Yousafzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman Shami, Haroon Ur Raheed (columnist), Talat Hussain, Zahid Hussain (Wall Street Journal), Ijaz Haider, Moeed Peerzada, Q...
The forces of chaos and disruption will not agree on anything less than absolute power. Unfortunately the world community will have to act. We are moving in a d...
Dear Najam Sethi As some other pro-establishment Journalists and anchors in Pakistan, you also believe that the proxy Taliban represent Pashtuns in Afghanistan ...
With the state machinery so weakened, it became easy for the non-state actors to use suicide attacks as a strategy to create scare among the people and the stat...
In a letter to Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi in 1939 when he was 27 years old, he wrote: "Whatever happens, I can find no satisfaction. I am not satisfied with anything. I...
Rana Chandra Singh, who was one of the founding members of Pakistan Peoples’ Party and a cabinet minister was many a time asked to leave while the cabinet was g...
Hamuyun threw one crore rupees on the table and then asked the other party to begin the negotiations. This was being done by someone whose father could not even...
Zia ul Haq met JI Chief Mian Tufail Mohammad for 90 minutes the night before Bhutto was hanged. The following day, the JI supporters took to the streets to cele...
Men who call themselves feminists or stand for women rights are usually labeled as sissy, effeminate and gays by other men. These anti-feminist men are unconsci...
If you already have carried out coup d’etas, or have your candidate in place, it is not too late. Please see our Morning-After package for details. (Previously ...
Today the struggle against state oppression is being ripped apart by religious sectarianism and other prejudices. The strategists of the state aggravate such co...
Since the lawyers’ movement, media, judiciary and so-called civil society, representing the urban educated middle class, are complementing each other in promoti...
The total number of Shia killed as per independent estimates is over 21,000 which includes several thousand children and professionals For decades Shia Muslims ...
The Income Tax authorities have also investigated the cases of Asif Raza Mir, Saveera Nadeem, Nouman Ejaz, Nadia Hussain, Mehroz Krim Rind, Humayoon Saeed, Tayy...
In a January 6 video, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, indicated that it is broadening the jihadi battlefield to include Kashmir and India It is becoming cle...
Taseer’s assassin is a Barelvi Muslim belonging to the Dawat-e-Islami, and 500 clerics of this faith supported his action. Most of these mullahs are part of the...
Why is it so easy to rage at the Taliban? Why is it so hard to rage at the conditions that gave rise to the Taliban and continue to sustain it The Taliban is a ...
In the 40 hours or so I have spent researching this letter, I have had several hundred browser windows open related to academic fraud, and while I cannot provid...
To allow oneself to be lulled to sleep by a reassuring lie, rather than accepting the inconvenient truth, is the greatest disservice one can do to his country. ...
As the latest drama of rhetoric and revolutionary idiom unfolds, it is imperative that all progressive forces pool in their organisational resources to defend t...
