Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
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Despite the threats and risks, the Internet has provided a useful platform for people-to-people contacts. It has also facilitated issue-based engagement among S...
And if everything was already there in the sacred text why so much money and effort is being spent on research? Is it not cost effective to assemble a group of ...
The birth of Bangladesh not merely shattered the Ideology-of-Pakistan myth, it also exploded the notion of Imagined Community. A community cannot be imagined ou...
After 60 years of independence Pakistan is still searching for an appropriate balance of power between its four provinces and an equitable political structure i...
(Faiz Sahib’s editorial of the Pakistan Times dated August 15, 1947. The original title was: August 15) It is August 15 today. The dawn that brought this day in...
At this juncture, I must pay tribute to Mr Mansoor Ijaz whose selfless devotion to international statecraft is unsurpassed in the modern history and matched onl...
One would be greatly amiss, not to pay tribute to the doyen and the veritable patron saint of the Dajjal industry, Dr. Shahid Makhboot Dear Readers, Today we wi...
Toni Usman used Manto’s letters as inspiration and Manto’s grave as symbol to stage a strong and communicative expression Toni Usman is an intelligent and extre...
Newspapers like Ausaf were generally suspicious of India’s intentions and took a pro-military line. The following extract from Ausaf is particularly revealing i...
Dear friends and comrades, The National Students Federation formally came alive after a period of more than two decades on 25 th -26 th November in Faisalabad, ...
The lifting of ban on Bollywood films has actually encouraged competition and revived cinema in Pakistan ‘’Intolerance of the kiss is an extreme example of the ...
Faiz disagreed with Rashed’ life philosophy but respected him as a poet and a friend. Rashed and Faiz studied at Lahore’s famed Government College together Naza...
In May 1948, Pakistan People’s Party was founded in Karachi. Ghaffar Khan was elected president and G. M. Sayyid, general secretary. Its objectives included sta...
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the marketplace all that seemed fixed and frozen since the revolution in 1949, but -- as with all oth...
In September 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India organized an exhibition on the Quran at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. It highlighted the te...
While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the "Arab Spring" over and advising the rebellious masses to go back home, recent...
Even if Imran Khan’s corruption-free utopia comes into being, it will not end capitalist and feudal exploitation The clean-shaven Amir of what the Beyghairat Br...
Names such as Bhagat Singh, Mangal Panday, Rani Lakshmibai etc. are never even remotely mentioned in Pakistani course books, why? Thiers and contributions of ot...
The JEI which began as a staunch opponent of the India’s secular, democratic polity (idolatrous system) had now turned into its active participant some 40 years...
