Minority task force
It is a matter of great honour and privilege for me that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed me chairman of a task force with a status of federal minister.…
Institutionalising minority rights
Pakistan has been facing severe criticism by the international community for many decades now due to the overall atmosphere of intolerance and systematic persecution meted out to its religious minorities.…
Protect the community’: Asian-Americans organise against hate
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged America, Esther Lim grew more worried by the day for her parents’ welfare and her own — not just for their health, but their safety…
Resolving minority issues
Two major problems non-Muslim minority communities in Pakistan face are directly linked to religious conversion and encroachment of holy sites of worship. Most of the conversion cases in Pakistan are…
Representation and the legal community
The legal community considers the constitution of Pakistan its holy grail. It does its utmost to ensure rule of law but has perhaps forgotten or chosen to ignore Article 34…
The lives of minority groups
The heart-wrenching scenes of violence by Hindu-right wing goons in Gurgaon against a Muslim family have appalled millions of humanists in the largest democracy and beyond. In a video that…
Myanmar’s minority
On November 8, Myanmar is set to hold general elections for the second time since the end of military rule in 2011. However, not everyone in the country will get…
Women in the minority
On this International Women’s Day, let us look at the challenges that minority women and girls face, in addition to those of an average Pakistani woman. Gender experts often use…
Minority perspective
March 23, 1940, is undoubtedly, a historical day and is considered an important milestone in the Muslim struggle to achieve an independent state. On this occasion, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah,…
Minority matters
“I AM the prime minister of all Pakistanis, whether they are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Parsi, or any other religion. I will stand by victims of violence and ensure perpetrators…
