Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in C...
Let me make it very clear. We will not allow the attack on Caliphate of Waziristan under the fig leaf of the Malala attack. Waziristan is the heartland of Ummah...
Turn on the TV. There is breaking news about a 16-year-old girl who has gone missing. A few hours later, we learn that the abductors have contacted the missing ...
Gilgit Balitistan (GB) is not a free land but a colony of Islamabad. GB has no representation in the National Assembly, Senate. The Legislative Assembly has no ...
Fourteen years ago, around the time young Rimsha Masih, now in jail under Pakistan's blasphemy law, was born, a Roman Catholic bishop walked into a courthouse i...
The social fabric of Pakistan has been drastically revamped during Zia’s rule that has polarized the society in the name of ideological differences and intensif...
There is a Punjabi word, now creeping into Pakistani Urdu as well – hudharam . It is reserved for the toiling workers both in rural and urban areas and invoked ...
Christians alone are not oppressed rather everyone is a victim of violence in this country be it Muslim or non-Muslim Not many people acknowledge the role of Lo...
The holiness of eggs--for once they broke it was all over--suddenly became a suspect Once upon a time, a man named Hakim, a seasoned traveller and a wise man, a...
It is normal that all those who believe in democracy — and democracy obviously presupposes secularism — fear the arrival of a fundamentalist religious force whi...
In their interactions with the South, Chinese leaders have always affirmed that their country is a developing nation too, and that China will never replicate th...
Published in 1986, ‘Facts are Facts’ by the late Wali Khan was an instant hit. ‘Facts are Facts’ is an attempt to contest text book versions of Pakistan’s histo...
Obama - makes some populist appeal, such as for tax "fairness". However, he is immediately checked by the fact that he is completely dependent on finance capita...
In concluding that the African quest for self-determination ran its course by the liberation of the continent from foreign rule, the Organization of African Uni...
This looks like an evil version of the kind of thing the Yes Men do - a cheap media operation designed to have a disproportionate impact. So, what impact, and w...
Madeeha Gauhar, co-founder of the Pakistani theatre group Ajoka, speaks to Himal. Pakistani theatre group Ajoka has entertained audiences across Southasia for t...
Some young boys were curiously glancing through the pages of those books. Back home while reading the local daily I found that Pakistan was the number one count...
Below is a press release issued, at the end of two-day moot, by the participants from Pakistan and Afghanistan Press Release: Left-wing parties from Pakistan an...
Rational thought in the Muslim world developed during the reign of liberal Muslim rulers of the Abbasid dynasty. However it was after the rise of scholars like ...
Polygamous setup of Iqbal’s household was not very practical and could not last long. One day, the mother of Iqbal’s first wife came over, told Iqbal that he wa...
