Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Leaders like General Musharraf, patronized the Taliban as many did before him (Benazir Bhutto for one) without bothering to analyse the consequences it would ha...
If you asked a cartographer where Europe’s boundary was to the east, you might expect a simple answer, but you would be wrong: its western boundary is obvious, ...
The reception in Uganda to the KONY 2012 viral video has been unanimously negative. From journalists, academics and bloggers to local NGO workers and local peop...
Pepsi Cola donated Rs. five million to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in 2009 and has installed several water filtration plants in Multan conveniently ...
A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid f...
In an interview to the journal Science, the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh, chose to focus on two hazardous technologies – genetically engineered see...
Syria's bloodbath is carving further divisions in Lebanon as President Bashar al-Assad's Lebanese allies and enemies shout more and more insults at each other. ...
He will not get a chance to rule this country. But mainstream politicians like Imran Khan espouse the same ideologies as Zaid Hamid. Iqbal ka Pakistan hosted Im...
Gul was the mastermind of the ill-conceived all out assault on Jalalabad in 1989 by the Mujahedeen . That proved a total disaster. His daughter having obtained ...
On Feb. 20, people went out again to mourn the two youth killed during the demonstrations. The regime claimed that one of the martyrs, Sane Zhale, originally a ...
Fazal Hadi, was arrested by a raiding team at his ancestral area Asbarn when he returned from Sindh province, where he had been hiding since 2009…The FIR of the...
At the very beginning of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx wrote: “ Hegel remarks somewhere that all the great events and characters of worl...
Islamists love secularism in DarulHarab (house of war). As for Darul Salam (house of peace) they want rigid mono-religious and totally intolerant society The mo...
At present US support is on the side of the PPP-led government. Can that ensure a balance of power in Pakistan? In the last few weeks politics in Pakistan has e...
Nazwz Sharif who supposedly credits himself, for the restoration of deposed judiciary, seems to be back in action, playing for his former king makers. Fact is t...
One year after the start of a revolutionary process which swept through the Arab region and continues today, International Viewpoint asked Gilbert Achcar to loo...
If the civilian government in Pakistan survives its current confrontation with the courts and the military, the big winner may be the playboy international cric...
On September 23, 2011, at about three in the morning, within hours of his arrival at the Delhi airport, the US radio journalist David Barsamian was deported. 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...
It was right to support the lawyers’ movement. However, I among others who took part in that movement feel uneasy at the over-hyper activity of the Supreme Cour...
