Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
The western civilisation has become hollow from the inside. In the end it is the true message of Islam that will triumph. That is what Dr. Asalan was trying to ...
The story of Pakistan is of an “un-organic nation” in constant state of war on itself on the matters of nationhood, identity and its languages Pakistan is neith...
It is better to be original native than to be a fake Arab. Let’s unlearn false stories about our forefathers and own ourselves by exorcism of Saudi specter! Wit...
While it is true that Galloway has used mosques and aroused emotional sentiments of Muslim Britons against British foreign policy to “out-Muslim Labour’s Muslim...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already warned that the Defence of Pakistan Council is harming Pakistan’s interests at external front According to well placed r...
The current structure is skewed, whether deliberately or inadvertently, in favour of Punjab. Hence, not surprisingly, the identity of Punjab’s middle-class is s...
Suitable to the ‘divide and rule’ tactics, now Punjabi establishment is abetting Punjabi and Urdu settlers to stand up for a Bahawalpur province. It holds no su...
A GREAT wave of anger, frustration, defiance and democratic demand is sweeping across the Arab world, from the Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Aden and from Amman...
The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a plac...
The left-wing student organization I belonged to in my college days in Kolkata used to have a poster exhibition every year. This exhibition has begun to take pl...
“The 1992 World Cup was won by the Pakistani Cricket Team and not by Imran Khan alone. To be fair, the credit for the win goes squarely to Inzamam Ul Haq, Wasee...
HRCP reports that over 500 Hindu families have migrated from Pakistan only in 2011 With due anger and sheer frustration, it is stated that the first ever slogan...
A great example of this symbiotic relationship between the intellectual and a people is that of the Zapatista movement I must declare at the outset that I do no...
If Postmodernists view high-culture and low-culture in a similar vein then why does postmodern media thrust the audience on an 'elitist model' of communication ...
This is a movement still alive after 40 years, one that recently brought the peasants back together to fight back evictions. This is the tale of another failed ...
Islamic fundamentalism and postmodernism are ‘remarkably close in their critique of capitalism, although neither reject capitalism altogether or envisions socia...
Youth of Jan25 Revolution are subject to collective punishment On May 13, 2012, the Egyptian Court of Appeals will consider the sentence of two years imprisonme...
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...
Zardari has been indicted 14 years ago, you didn’t catch him 14 years ago, and you let all those years pass by — why can’t you wait for a year-and-a-half rather...
For a person of Jewish descent, there are two ways of drawing lessons from the Nazi genocide of the European Jews: one leads to saying "Never again to us, the J...
