1. Our Viewpoint will stand victorious

2. Exploiting anti-Semitism

I was introduced to the term anti-Semitism when I enrolled in the M.A. (sociology) studies at the Punjab University, Lahore in 1955. The term was ...

3. The United States and al-Qaeda: Strange bedfellows?

Other than the periodical flare-ups, there is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no

4. US occupation: Root cause of terrorism?

The Viewpoint online has raised the above question for comments. The roots of the current wave of terrorism in Pakistan are to be found in what can...

5. US’ end game

6. Our Viewpoint will be victorious

It was my second year of studies at Government College, Lahore when I saw Mazhar Ali Khan for the first time. The occasion was an inter-collegiate debate and we were waiting in a chattering and packed hall for the guest speaker and adjudicators to

7. Power

The word power in ordinary language is a very loaded term invoking mixed connotations of strength...

8. The last image

It was a cold January morning of Lahore. I walked out of the New Hostel and crossed over to the College compound. There the sight of a tonga parked by the Oval garden in front of the college tower attracted my attention. Coming closer to it I noti

9. Memogate

Pakistan got rid of its latest nine year military rule in 2008, but its civilian government is already belabouring under intense...

10. Globalization, international labour migration and poverty

11. Will US take on Pak?

According to a White House Press Release reported by the Voice of America on   December 4, the US President Obama called Pakistan’s President Zardari to offer his condolences...

12. Imperialism and anti- imperialism

In the mid-1950s several Afro-Asian countries were asserting their independence from the hegemonic influence of Western powers, while Pakistan’s rulers were driving the...

13. Sep 1965: A counter narrative

14. Feroz Ahmed

15. Pakistan in crisis

The pursuit of the paradigm of governance as outlined has served well the class interests of the rulers, whether military dictators or elected leaders from the landed gentry known as “feudals” in Pakistan. For example, the Islamisation project

16. ISI and Pakistani society (II)

Much can be learned from this very brief history of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies. To begin with, it makes meaningless the words like failure, incompetence, complicity etc...

17. Struggle goes on

On March 4, 1960 a French ship docked in the Havana harbour was blown up by American CIA in one of the first covert operations against post-revolutionary Cuba killing 100 people and wounding many. The next day Fidel Castro and his comrades led a crow

18. The fall of Dhaka: a personal narrative

19. South Asia’s independence: Tryst with destiny betrayed