Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Saudis are expelling more than a thousand Nigerian women from Saudi Arabia. The reason given for this cruel and arrogant action is that these women were not acc...
Let us stand firm against all forms of cultural imperialism and bigotry, but let us also condemn the senseless killing of the innocent and especially the attack...
At Kinnaird, they blocked cell phone use on campus for more than two years, locked the gates from 8 am to 1 pm in the afternoon and the rumor has it, some teach...
Haji Sahib has invited the TTP and Al-Qaida stalwarts to comment on a consultative paper he has written so that a merger can be achieved with the ANP in an expe...
P akistan in recent years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama’s surge into Af-Pak has taken sha...
Ilam Din pleaded not guilty but later filed a mercy petition with King George the Fifth. Jinnah was implicitly supporting an act which today is being defended b...
It was Sunday night. My father called me from Pakistan, unexpectedly. He sounded terrible on the phone. He called from the hospital. I’d not seen him in the lon...
Elements of Pakistani media are literally embedded with the jihadists for their Afghan and Kashmir ventures and have underreported or misreported the Shia genoc...
Many foreign banks in Pakistan have adopted ‘Islamic banking’. Host of banking products have been re-christened. A number of banking services have been Arabized...
Gandhi did not seek high office and Ambedkar stood no chance given the stark realities of the Hindu social system. If a dynasty were to be founded in India it h...
Every morning when I left home with my daada to go to school, the wall opposite our door had a new wall chalking reading “Kaafir Kaafir Shia Kaafir” Pakistan is...
While Faiz disagreed with some aspects of Iqbal’s philosophy of life, he was an admirer of Iqbal’s poetry. As proof, one can point, initially, to the poem that ...
Eighteen months after mass protests and strikes ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from power, the basic aspirations that drove Egypt’s uprising remain largely unful...
Because we lack institutions that produce knowledge, even educated people fall back upon false prophets like a water car “engineer” who promises to resolve the ...
As the great world leader, John F Kennedy had once said, ask not what your army can do for you, ask what you can do for your army I am afraid that the Americans...
My contemporaries like Abdullah Hussain, Intizar Hussain, Mustansar Husain Tarar have their own place in Urdu literature and I don’t want to pass a judgment on ...
We must stop simply mimicking whatever trends are catching on in the west. It is the kind of error that leads Dr. Eric to think a politics of social democracy, ...
Two years back it was disclosed that 17 banned militant groups were openly raising funds through religious gatherings, certificated award ceremonies, and meetin...
When we opted for piling up bombs, we needed a spoiled nation of firebrands to support us. For manufacturing this kind of nation, we fed the masses on heroic fa...
Since his taking over as MD PTV, YBM has hired around 400 people in sheer violation of PTV rules and court directions given on various occasion. The hired perso...
