Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
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Memogate will go down in Pakistan’s history as a misstep that broke the camel’s back with GHQ finally conceding that they conduct fishing expeditions against ci...
From 1853 onwards, the site has been marred by bitter dispute, first when the British administration fenced the site in 1859, separating the worship places of t...
A narrow coterie of military officers, mullahs and bureaucrats relies on the conspiracy theories to keep their flock in line. They use them to cover up their ow...
Maulana has supped with God and the American ambassador several times. He is not averse to this recompense being in dollars, as long as the NATO supplies are fr...
There needs to be a no-holds barred policy towards these extremists. It needs to pour out from every facet of our society. But when our judiciary and (many) pol...
The Mubarak family still believe it was Al Jazeera wot did it. Without the Qatari satellite channel's constant live coverage of Tahrir Square last January and F...
Like rest of the country, Shias have been a soft target for unprovoked bloodshed. 2009 partial autonomy, which gave more powers to the region, has not curtailed...
Freemasonry of zealots cries hoarse if ever the state announces subsidy to bail out a public sector institution such as the Pakistan Railways. Stays silent on R...
Drones are currently being tested on one of the world’s poorest people – not Londoners or Parisians – people who do not have on the ground advocates for their h...
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As we approach the 9 th anniversary of the 2001 attacks, it is amazing to see how right-wing politicians have attempted to capture media attention with their ho...
What if an entirely new theatre steps in to fight justice for Mukhtaran Mai, having lost it at the Supreme Court or suppose the case of Asya Noreen is presented...
Mysticism and Sufism have some potential in providing a common platform to world religions for reducing unnecessary religious animosities and tensions. The pote...
The significance of sex education, including preventive measures and safeguarding oneself from exploitation at the hands of professional thugs plus psychologica...
In the town of Ségou in south-central Mali, Salif Kanté is grappling with the increased costs of basic cereals. ‘I recently purchased my family’s food stock for...
So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we're going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the gr...
The petition itself, though littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, is poisonous drivel supposedly to terrorise into silence the journalists, me...
Is Zaid Hamid trying to imply here that politicians are immoral people so they should not be given any chance of governing people.? Maybe. If Politics is an imm...
"I don’t see any conflict in the thought that beautifying society is greatest of all art forms. Art evolved as a social activity, would be greatly enhanced in a...
Cloaking in divine garb an otherwise worldly matter is a specialty of conspiracy merchants like Zaid Zaman Hamid. He is trying to elevate Iqbal to the level of ...
