Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Tunisia and Egypt face economic challenges besides the difficulty of achieving political stability. The collapse of the previous systems of sinecure will releas...
On a pleasant September morning, Mohammad Sidiq, a sand-digger in his early 30s, pushes his long wooden boat out onto the River Jhelum, which cuts through the h...
'Aaj ek harf ko phir dhoondtaa phirtaa hai khayaal’ ‘Today an image seeks, once again, a word’ – Faiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), consi...
The tableeghis preach cleanliness but do we often see them cleaning their own dirty streets. They preach acquisition of knowledge, yet do we often witness table...
While Ilam Din is embracing death, Jinnah is addressing a rally in Lahore, telling people, “As long as Muslims do not create a separate country, Raj Pals will b...
There will be no breaking the power of the “feudals” in Pakistan, no equality for women in Afghanistan, no establishment of stable democracy in Egypt, no resolv...
‘Was USSR imperialist? Well, imperialism has to do with capitalism, capitalist accumulation, transfer of wealth from other countries to the imperial centre, ext...
Both her predecessors, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri were also affluent, feudal and modish. Both of them were almost as much constrained by ...
We demand that Nawaz Sharif, along with Imtiaz Alam are tried for high treason, by the newly independent judiciary headed by the Chief Justice, Her Ladyship, Sy...
Given the nature and form of the aid relationship between the us and Pakistan, this article argues that it is not so obvious what the objectives and purpose of ...
While the attention was squarely focused on the Raymond Davis issue, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Some tried to blame CIA for his murder. We have a history ...
The state government banned sms-service in Jammu and Kashmir realizing that it was the medium through which people were communicating and spreading information ...
Lavishly betrayed by Bhutto, it was the dervish poets and workers resisting Zia dictatorship. The corrupt feudal lords Bhutto held very dear, were now members o...
Myths gradually have lost their appeal in those societies where intellectuals produced new ideas, thoughts, and concepts to guide people. Myths flourish in thos...
Under the Taliban, only Mullah Omar, Foreign Minister Mullah Matawakel Ahmad and a few other Taliban leaders had the permission to access the Internet The Infor...
Since 1990 sectarian strife in Gilgit has devoured more than thousands lives. Many people see it as recurrence of the cannibalistic practices during the reign o...
Both Shias and Sunnis all over Orakzai suffered atrocities at hands of the Taliban. The Taliban, especially those linked with the Punjab-based anti- Shia groups...
In some statements by the power elite, the threat from the Taliban was described as more serious than that posed by India. Frightened citizens began to discuss ...
Art, in the “free world” we live in, has become the monopoly of the ruling classes which suits the basic nature of their exploitative system by doing both, gene...
Hundreds of women who would have spent their days in quiet comfort in our serene district jails, because they could not produce four adult, sane, pious, male, M...
