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Ishtiaq Ahmed
It would not be an exaggeration to say that knowledge of the English language is the passport to the modern world. I was really pleased to read Shakil Chaudhary’s Handbook of Functional English, an e...
#The founder of Viewpoint, Mazhar Ali Khan (born 6 June 1917 – died 28 January 1993) was born into one of the leading...
March 8, 2013 happened to be the 92nd birthday of the great poet Sahir Ludhianvi  (born in Ludhiana 1921; died Mumbai 25 October1980). Even before leaving Stockholm in the end of January 2013 for ...
Although Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians and some other Middle Eastern groups speak Semitic languages the term anti-Semitism, coined in 19th century...
Modern Jews, convinced that the establishment of a Jewish state was the only solution to escape discrimination and persecution at the hands of Christians, founded the Zionist movement. Ultra-orthodox J...
We have a discussion-cum-social group in Stockholm that has been meeting regularly every month since 1991. It comprises almost entirely Punjabis, mostly from Lahore but other places as well and from Ea...
The biggest deception that Pakistani Marxists and liberals have been indulging in is that the ulema as a whole opposed the creation of Pakistan. Maududi did oppose, but he was an outsider who shifted t...
#In the last few weeks politics in Pakistan has exhibited volatility that could have ended with an explosion. Either the military would have carried out a coup or the civilian government would have fire...
Many Asian and African polities entered into alliances with the two main superpowers of the post-Second World War era – the United States (US) and the Soviet Union – in the hope of getting economic...
This week, on the eve of Aug. 14, Viewpoint’s theme is: What freedom means for your province after 65 years of independence? In case of the...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 will always be remembered as the day when Islamist terrorism took one more step towards wholesale talibanisation of Pakistan. Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was slain by his own ...
#Nothing is more shattering and traumatic for a state than to experience a part of its territory seceding because of internal rebellion or external intervention or both. That is, however, exactly what hap...
#The contemporary international system is constituted by sovereign states whose territorial claims are clearly defined, demarcated and agreed upon in the form of international boundaries. However, excepti...
#Righting historical wrongs is a dangerous basis for establishing amity and harmony in present-day societyA verdict of historic proportions was delivered by the Allahabad High Court (AHC) on Thursday in a...
It is a political adage that the modern state is a juridical-territorial entity that does not tolerate competing centres of power and authority because to do that would mean a detraction from its exclusi...
I am a long-time resident in Sweden where I have been living since September 1973. When the initial euphoria of living in a new place subsided and life assumed some sort of normality, it began to dawn up...
#On September 11 2001 a series of daredevil coordinated terrorist attacks on symbols and institutions of U.S. economic and military power traumatised the United States. Such trauma would have been total h...
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