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Mass protests sweep Gilgit Baltistan

Peter Boyle · Apr 24, 2014 · 4 min read

Baba Jan, a popular leader of the struggle who was jailed and tortured by Pakistani authorities until 2013, leads a April 19 protest rally in Aliabad, Hunza Val...

Biggest democracy in the largest poverty

Lal Khan · Apr 11, 2014 · 5 min read

India is often projected as a modern state yet in the midst of the high-rise buildings and corporate plazas, huge swathes of shanty towns go on breeding misery....

Are Russia and China imperialist powers?

Chris Slee · Apr 10, 2014 · 9 min read

Russia and China both play an important role in world politics. This includes involvement in armed conflicts distant from their borders. Russia for example supp...

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Viewpoint · Apr 1, 2014 · 2 min read

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Minority politics in Pakistan: A Dispatch from India

Asma Khan · Mar 13, 2014 · 14 min read

[Hindus frequently ill treated in Pakistan sends a chill down the spines of Muslims in India, the dirty minority politics of both the countries is a matter of b...

Taliban win, women lose

Viewpoint · Feb 27, 2014 · 3 min read

I hereby announce a mass suicide event for the women of Pakistan. Oh, wait, the government is already ‘negotiating’ that suicide mission for us. There goes my c...

Creating a secular Jinnah

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid · Feb 20, 2014 · 7 min read

The magazine Newsline’s February 2014 edition has an interesting – albeit unoriginal – cover photo depicting Pakistan’s founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah as a...

An Open letter to Mr. Tehelka

Asma Khan · Feb 6, 2014 · 4 min read

Mr.Tehelka, Hope you are doing fine…. Egad! Fine? In a jail? Sorry. Dunno how to begin? The media fraternity you were once part of, has already paid you homage,...

Sleuths harass VBMP Long Marchers, sympathisers

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur · Feb 6, 2014 · 6 min read

On February 4 th, a day before Pakistan closes down ostentatiously for the rights of Kashmiris, Pakistani intelligence agencies’ personnel harassed the Voice of...

The Art of Losing War

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid · Feb 6, 2014 · 6 min read

The Art of Losing War is a counterterrorism treatise attributed to Chun Choo, a high-ranking Pakistani military general, geopolitical strategist and tactician. ...

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Viewpoint · Jan 1, 2014 · 3 min read

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Psychology behind conspiracy theories

Waseem Altaf · Nov 3, 2013 · 5 min read

Conspiracy theories fail to maintain the same level of skepticism towards those who advance conspiracy theories…conspiracy theorists may also be lying to advanc...

Should the HEC live or die? Pervez Hoodbhoy

Viewpoint · Oct 31, 2013 · 3 min read

T he Higher Education Commission (HEC) stands on death row. Appeals for reprieve have been rejected by the commission responsible for implementation of the Eigh...

Drone attacks: a critical perspective

Farhat Taj · Oct 24, 2013 · 8 min read

' The News' reported 687 civilians have been killed in 60 drone attacks. There is no information on how the authorities quoted in report collected the figures. ...

The missing link in drone debate

Dr. Mohammad Taqi · Oct 24, 2013 · 7 min read

Politicians have been coerced by the Army to publicly condemn the drone attacks and parliamentary resolutions were used to indicate to the US the purported publ...

Our viewpoint on US droning of Pakistan

Viewpoint Team · Oct 23, 2013 · 3 min read

F irst things first. The USA has no right to stay in Afghanistan let alone drone Pakistan. It is the US military aggression and presence in the region that has ...

Balochistan cauldron

Viewpoint · Oct 17, 2013 · 5 min read

Instead of visiting Balochistan, Mr. Sharif, accompanied by the Chief Minister of Balochistan, visited China with the aim of handing over Gwadar-Port and the Re...

Khaki corruption: Hush! Hush!

Waseem Altaf · Oct 11, 2013 · 5 min read

NAB has evidence of the involvement of at least 20 retried senior military officials including three former chiefs of army staff, two naval chiefs and an air fo...

Media concealing Malala’s progressive background

Viewpoint · Oct 10, 2013 · 4 min read

A picture in which she is seen with a poster of Lenin and Trotsky should indicate her proximity to some of the most ideologically groomed bunch of men and women...

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