The plague of extrajudicial killings continues to affect Pakistan since its inception. A string of murders committed outside judicial sanction have made headlines throughout the history of Pakistan. The scene of these murders stretches from ...
Religion used as a cynical political ploy by political parties and by a reactionary dictatorship was a project controlled from the top, but one which eventually trickled down to become an uncontrollable social tendency below, ...
Eerie parallels continue, between Babri Masjid in India, Hagia Sophia in Turkey, and the Islamabad Mandir controversy in Pakistan, writes Yasser Latif Hamdani. The great Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, converted Hagia Sophia ...
Social media is not the appropriate space to engage in debates on complex historical issues. Last week, I followed a Twitter conversation about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan’s history before and after the creation ...
On the 5th of May the government of Pakistan announced the establishment of a National Commission for Minorities. One can take it as a good gesture. However, like the successive governments, serious consideration has not ...
On May 5 the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-led federal government rescinded an earlier decision to include the Ahmadiyya community in the reconstituted National Commission on Minorities. The move, needless to say, followed in the wake of ...
These days a Turkish series that draws upon some historical themes is the talk of the town in Pakistan, from national TV to social media websites. Ertugrul Gazi was the father of Osman (Ottoman), the ...
Is it a coincidence that certain journalists, religious clerics, defence analysts and a significant portion of the population insist on a certain idea over a period of time? Absolutely not. It is but the result ...
Pakistanis were appalled to see videos circulating on the internet of various events that were held throughout the country in commemoration of Yaum-e-Ali on Friday, apparently in defiance of government restrictions and Standard Operating Procedures ...
The Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the fault-lines in various societies – from India’s majoritarian hostility to its Muslim population, to racial and class-based divisions in a number of countries. Pakistan is no different. Among other ...
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