Viewpoint archive - English articles (2010-2016)
773 articles
Many centers drift between illegality and legality. On the other hand, there are centers that are legal and run by professionals but provide completely unethica...
And since God is a feminist, it shouldn’t be that big a surprise to see all his devout followers being feminists of the same scale as the deity himself Among al...
Before BB's agreement with notorious IPPs, electricity was mainly generated through hydel power plants and was not as costly. But after these agreements, the sh...
The real indicator of women’s interest in politics is that almost 150 women filed nomination papers for general seats in 2013, a 129 percent jump from the 2008 ...
The main reason is not of lust but of control, with a misogynist mentality to keep the women in place which stems from the religious misperception that Eve was ...
I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy ...
Feminism is not just a label, it was a movement – it still is a movement. It is not about the women who turn away from it for popularity but about fighting the ...
Having been sacked recently, Ehsanullah Ehsan is looking for a new job. With the Taliban threat, and possible negotiations to counter said threat being high on ...
The form of the capitalist state as the means of government of the bourgeois class is therefore determined by class interests. It can only assume a given form, ...
(This essay by the late Zafaryab Ahmed was run by Viewpoint on July 6, 1989. A progressive journalist and human rights activist, Zafaryab Ahmed himself spent ti...
Tagore told an audience that he cannot compare himself with Iqbal because he does not write in his native tongue. Iqbal issued a rebuttal that Tagore could writ...
It was Awami National Party, led by Wali Khan, that declared Urdu as an official language in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Even the Punjab has never forma...
On July 8, 2005, the Nawa-i-Waqt editorially suggested that the U.S. had orchestrated not only the 9/11 attacks but also the London bombings of July 7, 2005. Pr...
Pakistani media’s financial shortfall is compensated either by mysterious sources or the electronic-media bubble is heading for a big burst I t takes Rs. 40 mil...
And I think Pakistan is not the most hated country in India. We could say that about perhaps Bangladesh or Afghanistan where Pakistan is disliked near-universal...
Translated, from Pashto, by Arbab Daud My Sweet Malala! What happened, my dear? Dear Lala, I was shot Powerful mustached men shot me They were sons of Khushal B...
A case was registered against ‘unknown’ puritan protestors under the blasphemy law on the charge of attacking, damaging and desecrating a Hindu temple in Karach...
Karachi-based researcher and a Viewpoint contributor, Mohammad Nafees, has prepared a report on the Balochistan situation. The report was commissioned by the Ce...
What hurts is the fact that the stereotypical image showcased by the media often means people do not take us seriously. Stereotypes and segregation based on rel...
The concept of a separate sovereign Bengal, which was aimed to save the lives of thousands of Muslims in Calcutta, was not appreciated by both the top leadershi...
