Day for religious freedom
First of all, I am grateful to God Almighty who, like every year, blessed me to start the new year by facilitating deserving people to initiate a new life and…
Religious prisons
A JIRGA in northern Pakistan bans women from visiting tourist spots. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan continues to deny education to girls as well as freedom to work or go…
Climate and the religious lens
The condition of Pakistani cities shows that we are suffering from an intellectual, professional and moral crisis. There is a sense that the existing government institutions and people cannot be…
Religious extremist terrorism’s spread
Recent events in Mozambique centring on religious extremist terrorists seizing Pemba, the capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which triggered a mass exodus of local people and foreigners…
Religious and political books
It is the sacred month of Ramazan and we have entered the second phase leading towards its completion. Many books have been published on religious matters and I would like…
VIEWPOINT: Give them an inch and they will take ten miles: Religious parties’ threat
Leaders of various religious parties and groups who met at the Jamaat-e-Islami's Mansoora headquarters in Lahore on Tuesday have threatened the government to do as they want or be prepared…
Religious unity
The main objective of militants such as the Taliban is to expand. They were initially a small group of people with an extremist interpretation of their own, but as time…
War or peace
THE world is divided into two spheres, ie the ‘House of Peace’, which includes countries running their governance systems according to Islamic principles, and the ‘House of War’, where Muslims…
Signs of hypocrites
THE subject of ‘munafiq’ (hypocrite) or its plural ‘munafiqoon’ is one of the recurring themes in Ahadith and the Holy Quran. The Quran puts ‘munafiqoon’ and ‘kuffar’ (disbelievers) together, promising…
Betrayed in Afghanistan
IT turns out, to the surprise of no one, that the Afghan Taliban haven’t changed after all. Last week, they announced that they were going to ban girls from going to…
