Surrounded by spring flowers and the ruins of their family homes near Israel’s border with Lebanon, Christians gathered Friday to ensure their Easter traditions survive decades after the destruction of…
You are totally mistaken if you think that Ziaul Haq – that great guardian of Muslim faith – has left a ‘glorious legacy’ for only Muslim women – a legacy…
Once upon a time under-class Mohajirs in Karachi, residents not of Clifton and Defence but depressed localities, used to be an object of scorn for other communities, regularly picked upon…
A religiously motivated violent mob in Jaranwala, Faisalabad attacked, vandalized and set houses and churches of the Christian community on fire on August 16. According to the initial official assessment,…
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of…
The moral decay of Pakistan and the malaise it has created continue to have devastating consequences. Unmoored from principles, the deliberate abandonment of critical thinking is eating into the moral…
Alone. Hounded. Sledged. Mobbed. Harassed. Heckled. Jeered. Harrowed. Threatened. Sieged. Terrorized. And many more. This is a sample of what happened to a girl student Muskan Khan in Karnataka, India,…
THERE is a curious contrast in how the people of Pakistan have consistently prevented religion-based political parties from receiving more than eight to 10 per cent of the votes cast…
The politics of Palestine can be viewed through many different lenses – religious, political, historical, etc. As a rather typical product of the Pakistani school system, my knowledge of the…
Enactment and enforcement of legislation against child marriage has repeatedly run into resistance that claims religious authority. Overcoming this resistance will require a wider intellectual engagement with the foundations and…
