Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
O n September 30, Ecuador descended into chaos as a protest by sections of the police force and army turned into a potentially bloody coup against left-wing Pre...
Issue no. 1 : 21 May, 2010 Issue no. 2 : 28 May, 2010 Issue no. 3 : 4 June, 2010 Issue no. 4 : 11 June, 2010 Issue no. 5 : 18 June, 2010 Issue no. 6 : 25 June, ...
It is the toiling, impoverished masses, irrespective of the community they belong to, are the sufferers in these disputes created by the feudal elements in all ...
Media, today, is under complete control of the state, corporate sector and the ultra Right columnists, anchors, guests in talk shows, analysts etc. Any progress...
The anti-imperialism currently on display in the Muslim world is symbol rather than substance, signifying a new phase in the relations between two estranged lov...
‘Can one expect a bunch of journalists to get together, pool their resources, collect funds from sympathetic individuals, and launch a newspaper or magazine (as...
There was a time when state-run TV channel used to brainwash masses in service of a dictator ‘flying the Islamic flag’. Nowadays private TV channels are filling...
Pakistan is facing worst ever floods of its history. Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in different parts of the country since last three weeks. Wate...
The devastation from floods could have been much less had certain practices of disaster-management been in place By Naseer Memon Rivers this year brought unprec...
Today’s guest contributor, Tariq Ali, is a writer, activist and political commentator. A leading figure of the Trotskyist movement in the sixties and seventies,...
It has reinforced a dilemma that Pakistani young generation is facing; that is, they have to use three different languages: mother tongue or regional languages ...
In a country like ours, where the public takes the Army to be the best run institute despite the corruption a top-ranked officer indulges in, this really should...
Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. There is not a single young scholar who is not on the military's payr...
If the leaching ponds containing the effluents of a milling and leaching plant are not covered in water, the dumped waste can dry up and gets blown all over by ...
There is a complete blackout on the effects of uranium mining in Dera Ghazi Khan in south Punjab. Researchers too were defeated by the powerful nuclear establis...
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FROM 624 to 628AD, several Jewish clans in the Arabian peninsula joined forces with an Arab tribe, the Quraysh, to make war on a renegade Qurayshi named Muhamma...
Washington is backing an alliance between the government, warlords already in power, Taliban and the arch-criminal Hekmattyar whose true place is at the Hague t...
Over 250,000 textile workers in, Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city, won a complete victory on July 29 after a nine-day strike. Their chief demand was th...
In an age of superficial best-sellers, scholarly endeavors often at best end up in libraries and keep gathering dust. Books that instead of conforming to cliché...
