Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Ayub Khan deliberately sought to court the Tablighis to counteract the influence of the Jama’at-i Islami. Maulana Kandhwalvi, penned a tract bearing the reveali...
Let us take up the army first. Do we impute an independent class character to it? Army personnel are derived from all classes of the society though predominantl...
David Samuels interviews Noam Chomsky You grew up in a home that was heavily influenced by Ahad Ha’am, the father of cultural Zionism. My father was a great sym...
When he presented his proposals for taming banks in late September, Peer Steinbrück was once again spoiling for a fight. The Social Democratic candidate for the...
I'm a French Muslim who is gay, and a feminist. I no longer want people in my country to think that it is an impossible blend, and that these different aspects ...
Dennis Bernstein: Noted Documentary Filmmaker, John Pilger, is somebody who knows a great deal about the Gaza Strip, and about the extreme conditions Palestinia...
Sotoodeh, a brave human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist, was arrested on September 4. She has been on hunger strike since Oct. 31 Following is an onli...
Brothers misjudged opposition’s potential to mobilize people. Liberals and leftists have shown that they are almost as popular among people as Brothers and Sala...
You can curb freedom of expression; you can never control freedom to think freely! Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information in all matte...
Cowasjee: the last of his kind. Foul mouthed, acerbic, haughty at times. At other times warm, good natured, compassionate and kind. A fearless defender of publi...
The Blockade denies the Palestinians in the Gaza strip their basic human rights. The blockade itself is the main reason that Hamas is still in power 'Hamas acti...
It is not surprising then to find some 'modern' Pakistani Muslims coining contradictory catchwords like 'Muslim Feminists' or 'liberal Hijabi' to explain or per...
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is still holding and Gaza's inhabitants will hopefully sleep undisturbed, at least in the near future. But the memories o...
The merger will survive because it has more positives and no negatives. The cementing phenomenon is the ideology of Socialism that all three parties have agreed...
It has to be noted that the AWP merger comes on the heels of, and is organically linked to, the rejuvenation of the long defunct National Students' Federation (...
Historically, within the Zionist movement there were Jews who wanted to live in peace with the Arabs in Palestine. A tiny Jewish minority had survived in Palest...
Cities can't be planned by inept and unimaginative bureaucrats, neither can they be built with bricks and mortar alone. What they need is creative and inclusive...
The liberalization of feminism over the last few decades parallels the liberalization of everything and the corporatization of poverty. It ties in to the mushro...
Ideology exists as an established theory, however if the doctrine is not imbued in the heart and mind, then it should not be included in poetry just because the...
Hindu, Muslim, Christian – religious channels are mushrooming in India. What impact are they making? What fuels their zeal? How authentic are the godmen? How al...
