Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
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On Feb 7 this year Jamaat Amir Sheikh Ghulam Hassan said that the Jamaat was primarily established for the propagation of Islam. “Our first duty is to fulfil th...
These Lahore boys, all of them in their late 70s or early 80s, reminisce a Lahore of a bygone era, when it was prided as the most communally harmonious city of ...
In 2001, Jamaat contested the election as a BNP-ally while its Ameer and general secretary became Khalida Zia’s cabinet ministers. At country’s 30th birthday Ja...
While Jamaat was at the helm in Peshawar, NATO supplies were safely travelling from Karachi to Torkham and beyond The Jamaat-e-Islami was a brainchild of Maulan...
When met for its 13 th meeting last March, the committee was of the view that the Section 12 of the Lahore Arts Council Ordinance 2002 did not allow the purchas...
Assassination is as American as apple pie. The record-breaking case of assassination-targeting is Fidel Castro. The 1976 Church Committee report on “Alleged Ass...
It is obvious that Pakistan’s army has lost legitimacy because of the crimes they committed. Incompetence laid bare their claim as the defender of territorial i...
Pakistani society of today has transformed into a society of fire arm bearers and if one tries to get any clue from clergy of the country of this sanguine behav...
In agricultural society, live stock represents wealth and hence sacrifices. In an urban society wealth is represented by money. If one contributed the equivalen...
Seeing the covetous and fearful nature of religious goodness, a secular person’s free good deed becomes more valuable. If we could feel clearly, goodness really...
Being a ‘Jihadi veteran’ from Afghanistan, hope Zaid Hamid someday also talks about Israeli role in fighting Soviets Zaid Hamid is a TV-phenomenon popularized b...
Some people think that if Al Qaida and Taliban succeed in Pakistan, America and other enemies of Islam will be defeated. It seems strange that to humiliate Amer...
We will soon hold an amputee sports day in Miran Shah. The last one was planned for Orakzai, but was cancelled at the last minute because a stoning ceremony cam...
Zbigniew Brzezinski: ‘What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liber...
The occupation of Wall Street is now in its third week. Thousands of people have worked and fought for it, have given it their time, their bodies, their ideas, ...
“Middle Class” transport service was inscribed on the top front of the bus. As it stopped several girls with colorful tights and tops appeared with hijabs . Som...
It is not a smart move to make permanent enemies. It is not too late for Pakistan to invest in Afghanistan’s economy rather than (or at least as well as) in its...
The war in Afghanistan costs US taxpayers two billion dollars a week. However, these phenomenal figures have not translated into anything tangible for Afghan wo...
By roaring that one does not wear bangles, he intends to put the message across that he is neither weak, a simpleton nor woundable or anything perceived to be o...
The question is why at this point of time when American forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan, they are so anxious about the region’s economic development and...
