Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
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The dictatorial regime of Muammar Gaddafi has escalated its violence against rebel forces seeking to bring it down. On March 6, opponents of the regime were rep...
February 23, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The conference theme was “ le statut de Kirkouk et l'article 140 de la constitution Irak...
The story of Pakistan’s road down the conception of Islamic state has only hardened differences between various communities to the point Pakistanis cannot be co...
The history of Pakistan’s journalism is witness to the harsh reality that the concept of Lifafa journalism was introduced by the head of one of the leading poli...
“Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century. “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.” Mo...
Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over fifty-nine small languages. However, the languages of the domains of power—government, corpo...
Maulvi Abbas Ansari opened his mouth “We are the defenders of this great fort of Islam and would not allow anyone to spread obscenity. And tell me, would you do...
If anything, the Taseer murder is a product of the enlightened moderation philosophy of the liberal dictator, Gen Musharraf (1999-2008) Very often, the analyses...
In 1860, the British repealed blasphemy laws so that Christian missionaries could proselytize. Today, Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code punishes as hate spe...
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 34 JANUARY 21, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Sear...
“Jinnah never did his matriculation. I once checked with Quide Azam Academy, Karachi, about his matriculation but I failed to find any such document. The high o...
Instead of seeing Salman Taseer’s murder as an unprecedented act commanding utter shock and horror, it must be placed on a continuum of rising intolerance and v...
Quaid was grade five student in 1892. In 1893, he joined Lincoln Inn to start his law study. Within one year’s period, his big jump from fifth grade to the post...
Nexus of Lashkars with power brokers operating mainly under the garb of PML-N and Khatam-e Nabuhat can be traced in most of these cases The death sentence that ...
Vocal as they are about being bombed from the sky, most Pakistanis – including many on the Left – suddenly lose their voice when it comes to the human (Muslim) ...
It is generally perceived that the rulers of Swat imposed Shari’a in Swat but it is not true. In the days when Swat was a state there was no rule of law. It was...
So-called fine line between ads and news is diminishing quickly, social and serious content is generously replaced by celebrity gossips, sexually attractive pic...
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 21 OCTOBER 08, 2010 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Lett...
F or the past five or six months I’ve been reading fairly regularly the web pages of three Urdu newspapers from Pakistan: Jang , Nawa-i-Waqt and the Express . I...
Vpered: 1. What parts of the Marxist heritage clearly belong to the past, and which ones do you feel remain equally relevant today? Daniel Bensaïd: I’d like to ...
