Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Aside from a prominent religious and political leader of Jamat-e-Islami telling women on live television that they should keep their mouths shut about their rap...
The success of Islamists has been in their ability to not reform but reframe their agendas, particularly on the issue of gender politics. The vocabulary of this...
Why is the Army getting weaker? The problem is not the lack of materiel – guns, bombs, men, and money. These have relatively easy fixes. Instead it is the milit...
‘We arranged for their recreation and sports. Poetry readings (mushaira) and cinema programmes were organised for them. We arranged a cricket match at Roorkee b...
The Muslim Brotherhood cannot ignore the lessons of Gen. Zia-ul Haque of Pakistan when he transformed a moderate and secular Pakistan to Islamic theocracy under...
A survey conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in 1999, just one year after India declared itself a nuclear weapons s...
A television anchor, dripping sarcasm, asked Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar whether he still believed in aman ki aasha to which the acerbic Aiyar retorted, well...
He is for the Blasphemy Law and against the Blasphemy Law. He is for democracy and for the army. He is for justice and for the judges. He can serve Mammon and s...
The wealth of the world For the last 5,000 years, since the Agricultural Revolution first provided substantial accumulations of surplus wealth, humanity has bee...
‘drain your blood, drip by drip, we need it, the boss, the Saigols, Manshas, the Sharifs, Zardaris are in need, drip by drip drain it, seth needs a new jeep and...
The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan, was established in 2002 during the Musharraf era. Until 2002, universities were recognized by the University Gr...
The great religions of the world Islam, Christianity and Judaism are today undergoing a radicalisation known as fundamentalism. Nonetheless, the religion that r...
Hameed Gul and company are professional fear-mongers. They want to terrify Pakistanis into believing that we are under constant siege and thus create a climate ...
One wonders if our media mujahideen will learn any lessons from Lollywood Last year, on September 21, six cinema houses were set on fire. In fact, our film indu...
In 2009 alone, nuclear weapons programme spending amounted to about $2.2 billion. Imagine the cost if we were to maintain 1,000 bombs! In this age of market dic...
Somewhere in the early 1980s I walked into the Markazi Urdu Board Library in Seokarno Square, Peshawar. I was there to see the librarian, Maulana Fazle Ma’bood,...
What more can I say about the unconscionable event that took place on the night of December 16 in Delhi that has not already been said or written about over the...
The plant operators said the Fukushima plant was safe. The Soviets also thought the Chernobyl reactor was safe. The Americans thought their Three Mile Island Re...
For the tax year 2011, Mehar Bukhari did not file any tax return. On the PRAL database, an employer’s statement is available that declares her income worth Rs 8...
'Hai kahan tamanna kaa doosra qadam, Yaarab Hum nay dasht-e-imkaan ko aik naqsh-e-paa paayaa’ "Where is the second footstep of longing, oh Lord? The desert of p...
