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Letter to Jamaat-e-Islami on Palestine

Farooq Sulehria · Jul 24, 2014 · 5 min read

As I pen these lines on July 20, news of demonstrations for Palestine solidarity is pouring in from across the world. As has been the case for several years, th...

Pakistan’s Afghan misadventure: Durand Line to Strategic Depth

Farooq Sulehria · Jul 17, 2014 · 8 min read

Over the last the three years the Pakistan military has accused the Afghan army of shelling into Pakistan while the Afghan government protested against attacks ...

‘Zarb-e-Azb is operation that we can both laugh and cry about’

Ayesha Siddiqua · Jul 10, 2014 · 3 min read

‘ I don't think the military has abandoned the good versus bad Taliban paradigm. It is too major a policy shift for military to afford. A change in military's p...

Ambivalent, half-hearted Zarb-e-Azb to solve nothing: Ishtiaq Ahmed

Reporting Desk · Jul 3, 2014 · 4 min read

‘ There is absolutely no rational basis for opposing or ignoring Zarb-e-Azb. No ideological reason can be given either unless one thinks that the Taliban are fr...

Recapturing North Waziristan: A tragic necessity

Pervez Hoodbhoy · Jul 3, 2014 · 8 min read

‘Progressive Pakistanis should openly support the operation against a barbaric foe. Specious objections will merely serve to strengthen them,’ says Pervez Hoodb...

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Viewpoint · Jul 1, 2014 · 2 min read

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Viewpoint · Jul 1, 2014 · 3 min read

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Viewpoint · Jul 1, 2014 · 2 min read

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Stop the Military Operation in Fata

Viewpoint · Jun 26, 2014 · 8 min read

We, the undersigned, demand an immediate end to the ongoing military operation in the North Waziristan region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)....

Egypt's Gulag

Justin Podur · Jun 26, 2014 · 2 min read

On Saturday June 21, an Egyptian judge confirmed 183 death sentences for what are called, in the BBC story, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of them a...

Pakistan’s reinvented ‘Villain’

Ummer Zia · Jun 26, 2014 · 3 min read

With utmost dedication to thought control and indoctrination, we too like other nations, cultivated the construct of villain to exploit masses. The very presenc...

Patrimonial capitalism and politics of patronage

Aziaz Baqir · Jun 26, 2014 · 10 min read

In his book, “The Unravelling: Pakistan in the age of Jihad”, John R. Schmidt, a former senior American diplomat who served in Pakistan for three years, critici...

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Viewpoint · Jun 1, 2014 · 4 min read

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Auntie Mausoleum

Hakim Hazik · May 29, 2014 · 2 min read

Addressing a press conference, the secretary information of the PTI, Auntie Mausoleum has blamed Geo for the recent phenomenon of global warming. She said that ...

No to a Ban on Geo

Our Viewpoint · May 29, 2014 · 3 min read

While Geo is largely inaccessible in Pakistan, a formal ban cannot be ruled out in the days to come despite a formal apology in the daily Jang and The News, on ...

Afghan elections: rigging allegations breed disillusionment

Sahar Saba · May 1, 2014 · 4 min read

The provisional results of the Afghan presidential elections, publicized on April 26, imply that there will be a second round as none of the ten candidates garn...

Permanent revolutions and counter-revolutions at the beginning of the 21st century

Christian Babel · May 1, 2014 · 24 min read

(Below is the report on the world situation, presented on February 22, 2014, to the Fourth International’s International Committee in February 2014.) This intro...

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Viewpoint · May 1, 2014 · 2 min read

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Hamid Mir: Conspiracy Theories and ‘patriotism’

Farooq Sulehria · Apr 24, 2014 · 4 min read

A sample of anti-Hamid Mir Facebook post In no uncertain terms Viewpoint condemns the despicable attempt to claim Hamid Mir’s life on April 21 in Karachi. Regar...

March 2014 proved 30% less violent: 385 killed in terror atatcks

Mohammad Nafees · Apr 24, 2014 · 13 min read

A steep decline in loss of human lives due to violence was observed during the month of March 2014, a phenomenon that could be attributed to the peace negotiati...

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