Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
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Qadri accentuates politics but not economics, form and not the content, effects and not the cause, mythology and not the reality. He talks about the abolition o...
In the six decades since Pakistan was founded, there have been five uprisings — three minor ones in 1948, 1958-1960, the mid-1960s, a major insurgency between 1...
One fatwa also declared that, “it was a Muslim man’s duty to kidnap the women health workers when they paid home visits, to marry them forcibly even if they wer...
In this sickening image, one of the most extreme in The Disasters of War series, the naked bodies of mutilated, tortured and castrated men are shown hung from a...
One of the mistakes in Afghanistan was to preach liberation to women without enlisting the men as equal partners As the departure of US troops approaches and ne...
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Congress, which boasts of being a secular party, committed monumental errors of political dishonesty during the election campaigns to win Muslim voters in Uttar...
Redaktion Adnan Farooq Adnan Farooq has worked with daily The Nation, Lahore and daily Jang, Lahore. He has also volunteered for Milieudefensie, Amsterdam. Frie...
Sikhism emerged in 1469 AD. After that no religion could prevail. Why? The answer is that human race has generally become more conscious and has started questio...
Between 1966 and 1976 Africa experienced 109 coup attempts of where 51 were successful and 58 were unsuccessful The term neocolonialism is not very fashionable ...
From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion. I don’t know how far back in history to begi...
An array of traditional and popular advertising across the country enchants the male customers to buy elixirs for impotency, but aborting an unwanted pregnancy ...
Yet, whatever the terms used for Pakistan’s cultural pluralism and disparities of political power and economic privilege, Feroz remained steadfast in his convic...
If you can summarize the governing style of PPP in one word, its 'brinkmanship'! Those of the ruling party, who know what it means, practice it very well while ...
In the phallic culture we live in, there’s an ancient desire of an ‘ideal woman’, a woman who is so ‘perfect’ in fulfilling man’s sexual needs. Thus the whole e...
American Muslims are questioning why they are increasingly becoming the target of hate and discrimination when majority of the 9/11 attackers came from abroad T...
Vaccination has been invented by the infidel Christians and is clearly designed to undermine the House of Islam. It is against nature and the laws of nature. Po...
Pakistan lost half its navy, a quarter of its air force and a third of its army. Pakistan suffered most, with 8,000 killed and 25,000 wounded while India lost 3...
Far from being a product of the development of the productive forces, Zionism is precisely the consequence of the complete halt of this development, the result ...
For these Not-liberal Liberals, all problems for Pakistan started with 9/11 and will inshallah, end with some sexy sounding date to match. 13/13, if an extra mo...
