Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
We hope you and our dear bhabi are well and partaking of the wholesome festive foods from the various wedding celebrations of the Prodigal Brother. May Allah ex...
An AWP poster promises heaven to workers and peasants, youth and students, but has only ‘Izat’ (Respect) to offer to women. I always thought the left in Pakista...
Even in the ‘golden age’ of Islam, every king fought their own wars, sometimes against other Muslim kings to defend their throne other times to enlarge their em...
As if sexist men weren’t enough to judge us, at least I need a break from supposedly ‘pakeeza kahawateens’ to stop passing remarks at my back for something as p...
And frankly, not enough elite women are feminists. They, who have the power to make a difference and change, are silent on everyone’s behalf. They are comfortab...
Communist Party (UML) became closer to NGOs, the party also became more accepting of mainstream ideas and of a reformist approach to social change. The Maoists,...
Imran Khan types get mileage out of NGO bashing but are silent on madrassahs, Islamic charities or faith based development ‘Left feminists do not accept simplis...
For the first, our media mujahid does not enlighten us as to why has the Lord of the Worlds battered Haiti and Cuba through Sandy for an anti-Islam film produce...
There are slogans which call for death to blasphemers, death to America. The strong longing to detest, bringing death and destruction upon oneself or others is ...
Over the years, the TTP eliminated the tribal leadership. Now, it appears to have arrived at a similar strategy with regard to the Pakistani media, considering ...
When PPP government came into power in 2008, the country’s external debt was $45 billion which has now increased to $61.5 billion Although successive government...
Anyone incensed by symbolic violence, such as the video in the US or cartoons in France, should retaliate with symbolic violence in the same way or with peacefu...
Extremists, who in the beginning deemed Malala an icon of bravery, now consider her to be unworthy of all this care and attention. Facebook pages, text messages...
Pervez Hoodbhoy, one of Pakistan’s leading public intellectuals, has recently been told by LUMS that it will not be offering him an extension of contract. The b...
BY Dr. Muhammad Taqi J alib’s revolutionary poetry is in a league of its own in Urdu literature. Unlike the many greats including Faiz, Ahmed Faraz and Iftikhar...
For five years we have had a popularly elected government, but has this made Pakistan a democratic society? Not in the least. Many still go about whining and wi...
T he Viewpoint online has raised the above question for comments. The roots of the current wave of terrorism in Pakistan are to be found in what can be called Y...
This conspiracy theory of labeling Taliban as RAW/?CIA agents is also used To boost the morale of Pakistani armed forces and the general population when the arm...
The state police not only acted against the public interest, they cold bloodedly fired rounds of bullets on the un-armed villagers and killed five people includ...
If the actions of rulers cause droughts and floods, I wonder how you would explain the six-year-long drought suffered by Kabul when the Taliban were in power? D...
