Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
If Pastor Martin Niemoller were alive today and living in Pakistan, he would have inserted few alterations in his famous statement about the inactivity of Germa...
The Sunni-Sunni war reached a peak in 2006 at Nishtar Park, the year the ISI allowed Sipah-e-Sahaba to stage its show of power in Islamabad, senior journalist a...
In 2009, the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) ranked Pakistan 113 out of 130 countries to visit. Political instability, s...
"During my frequent visits to Pakistan in the 1990s, all kinds of theories were expressed whenever there was an attack on members of the Shia or Sunni community...
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means - Sallust All kinds of target killers seem to have landed in this country of pious...
I met Mustansar Randhawa (32) briefly on 19th June 2010 in Faisalabad, less than a month before his murder. He was one of 30 participants in trade union leaders...
On July 10, in Afghanistan's eastern border province of Paktia, gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Pakistani tribal people who had crossed into Afghanista...
On January 1, 2009, young Oscar Grant was killed by a transit cop in Oakland , California . While lying face down with a cop kneeling on his neck, Grant was sho...
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that t...
My greatest fear is politics. Not because of some high-sounding pseudo-philosophical reason, but because politics, like its greatest practitioners, always looks...
"Any woman regardless of her dress, her faith----whether she is an atheist or believer----can join a mobilisation for women rights. The participation of all wom...
(I) Dr Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was the first and so far only Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in 1979. That he was an Ahmadi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and...
The English Defense League (EDL) is the latest gang of racist street-fighters to crawl out of the rotten woodwork of British imperialism. These football hooliga...
ISLAMABAD: Recently ranked as 'The Most Corrupt Province' by the Transparency International (TI) in its latest report on Pakistan, Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province h...
"According to several estimates, Islamic organisations, many of which are linked to armed groups, can draw from a pool of money ranging from $5 billion to $16 b...
Getting a reincarnation, though not in full, the Viewpoint needs very special reading and circulation by the leftist elements in Pakistan who can envisage a new...
On Sunday, June 20, a successful protest against Israel was held on the docks of the Port of Oakland, California. Some 800 community and labor activists showed ...
As the CIA was busy chiseling out Mujahideen back in 1980s, corporate publishing houses in West were working just as hard to publish books on Afghanistan. Even ...
In the wake of September 11, when the USA was busy installing a puppet regime consisting of notorious warlords, the Human Rights Watch issued a backgrounder. A ...
Who was the person, if not Hamid Mir, that talked to a terrorist and sealed the fate of the ex-ISI official, Khalid Khwaja? Who were the killers of Murtaza Bhut...
