Need for standard Shariah stock screening criteria
The act of narrowing down the universe of all potential stocks to a selected group of equities that meet the requirements of a certain investment strategy is known as stock…
Does the Shariah permit trading shares?
The law is always catching up to the inventiveness of merchants. Islamic jurisprudence and commercial law, is no exception. Two modern inventions-the fiat-money banking system and the business corporation-have posed…
Laws of punishment
The retrogressive slide in Pakistan just got more pronounced with the Farzana Parveen case. The 25-year-old pregnant woman bludgeoned to death in front of the Lahore High Court fuelled the…
It is the Shariah of the courts, Your Honour
A question is being raised today in many quarters as to which Shariah, or whose Shariah, is to be implemented in Pakistan. There are so many sects, it is claimed,…
Revolution now?
WHEN this spin of the political merry-go-round pauses, one image will linger: a young man, veiled by his blue surgical mask, clinging to a bewildered peacock. The peacock had been…
Malaysia’s new crisis
In a first, the recently concluded general elections in Malaysia – held on Saturday, November 19 – have produced a hung parliament. Malaysian authorities had called early elections to end…
Buying your path to freedom
“I can’t believe they can get away with this. I’m toast, right? They’re going to drag me into this prison’s courtyard and stone me to death, aren’t they?,” said Raymond…
Afghan women
The recent set of retrogressive policies announced by the Afghan Taliban has created concerns among women’s rights activists and all those who value human rights. These obscurantist rules fly in…
A ‘people’s’ history and its sources
Another way of looking at a people’s history is through a gender lens. It means not only looking at the past from a gender perspective but also documenting the present…
The curse of riba
Last week I went to Karachi – the city of lights – my city. There I met a number of well-known, successful industrialists who have been a pillar of strength…
