Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
If woman is just an appendage and a ward of men, then she cannot be held accountable for her sins as a fully realized human being and thus not subject to divine...
It also high time for the people of Pakistan as well t wake up rewrite their common narrative which should be based upon supporting freedom and liberty of the p...
The narrative, India and Israel are part of compact to undo Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, is so firmly established in Pakistan that it is very difficult to raise ...
April 21 marks the birth anniversary of Allama Iqbal. In the vignette below, A. Asif delineates a fictional meeting between Allama Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah...
Rejoicing OBL’s death & discovery, why should democratic Pakistanis believe their Army was not complacent in Ms. Bhutto’s assassination, fourth in the same fami...
The book is a news reporter’s entry into the world of analyzing current affairs and to an extent geopolitical forecasting. Off the bat, the author rejects the p...
The Lashkar at Adeyzai has thwarted the march of the Taliban towards Peshawar. This tiny village near Peshawar has been a target for the Taliban for a long time...
Pakistan Navy is preparing to award Nishan-e Haider to its brave officer who lost his life defending the PNS base attacked by a militant group, mainly because h...
Mother tongue based multilingual education seems the way forward in Pakistan, where diverse ethnic identities lag behind in the rat race in which rats know no l...
I would like to propose granting national identity cards, voting rights and citizenship to the goats and sheep of Balochistan Balochistan is the largest provinc...
Islam, like all other religions is a moral and spiritual faith and has nothing to do with science or other similar areas of inquiry. Religion could be no more t...
During the March - May 2011 quarter, a total of 216 incidents of political violence occurred across the country which affected 1,740 people of which 595 people ...
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 55 JUNE 17, 2011 --> ONLINE ISSUE NO. 58 JULY 8, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submiss...
Based on the fast-changing circumstances in the region, the next five years will be highly crucial for the future of Balochistan and it is up to the Pakistani e...
A t a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and quantification, it is all the mo...
Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about ...
Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, launched a coordinated assault in January 2010 on the Islamist order that has gripped her country for 30 years...
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India are amongst the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. However, I don’t think we need more laws to protect journali...
Retreat of socialism, particularly in former Soviet Union, and rise of “Ziaism” in Pakistan depressed the progressive (Leftist) and secular forces in the countr...
The urban youth, belonging to upper and lower middle class has developed themselves as brainless zombies, devoid of any reasoning and logic. They are all equipp...
