Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Express 24/7 wound up and the staff was laid off by email. But it is not uncommon in Pakistan Every year, thousands of articles, news stories and features appea...
In Moscow and St.-Petersburg, the KPRF came out officially against the movement, which its leader Gennnady Zyuganov publicly described as “orange poison” Follow...
India-oriented, Punjab-based jihadists receive a kid-glove treatment from the deep state operatives “Genocide is any act that puts the very existence of a group...
Any youngster watching TV circus aka Talk Shows will be left desperate and hopeless, especially because these gentlemen dismissed the biggest avenue a commoner ...
There is no finer mark of a Pakistani man than a fully oiled, waxed and twirled moustache . For 18 years, Amir Muhammad Afridi’s vast handlebar moustache, curli...
The bench-boots connivance has brought a great deal of benefits to judges collaborating with the military rulers. Even Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was promoted as...
A significant recent example of protest action by workers was the protest by thousands of workers from Pepsi bottling plants, on the 14 th November 2011, agains...
The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to have sent an unequivocal message to current leaders: that great office confers no ...
A swarm of criticism has been leveled against Mona Eltahawy's recent Foreign Policy cover story on the state of women in the Arab world. Some of it has been rid...
The judges of higher judiciary received double raise in their salaries in 2010 by the present ‘corrupt regime’. After two hikes in a single year the salary of c...
This is a transcript of one of the two main interviews during Radio Tahrir, a marathon looking back on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movemen...
For all practical purposes, the Domestic Violence Bill that was supposed to be reviewed during the same time period has become collateral damage in the barter b...
Supreme Court had initially given the government an opportunity to make the NRO into a permanent law. However, the government at that time could not muster the ...
A nightmarish experience of my life was to draw a cartoon on (in)famous Lal Mosque operation in 2007 Sabir Nazar’s cartoons for the Viewpoint [online] ever sinc...
With Ahmed Ben Bella we have lost a formidable activist fighting for the emancipation of the peoples and a form of socialism based on workers’ self-management A...
Mian Saab’s role during the judges’ restoration movement was commendable . However, he owes Rs. 3.5 m to this nation and an unconditional apology, for receiving...
Arab uprisings are likely to gradually affect the regional political landscape. The most important offshoot of the Arab Revolution will be the strategic shift i...
Aarish U. Khan has worked as a Research Scholar at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), Islamabad, since September 2002. He holds a Master's Degree in Polit...
Now and then, as though out of sheer boredom, the United States shoots itself in the foot and loses the occasional goodwill it creates with aid programmes. Cons...
By masquerading as Arabs, allowing unchecked flow of petro-dollars and by patronizing and protecting Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists, Pakistan’s ruling e...
