The eminent Sindh-based writer Amar Jaleel has been under attack by the right-wing circles for the past few days. The more extreme groups including an infamous publication from Karachi have incited violence against him for his views. Prior to the current wave of attacks, an old video of him reading at the 2017 Sindh Literature […]
“One always feels Pakistan before one sees it.” I was curious about how the writer would address the subject of blasphemy in his debut novel, ‘The Verdict.’ He’s done it well through the vehicle of fiction. One expected an uneasy tentativeness to pervade the story, but happily that’s not the case. Without giving too much […]
A belief that has no disagreement in any religion is; “God (Allah) is the one who gives life or sends death.” How in practice this belief is ignored can be traced from a number of incidents that occurred in the country very recently. Two teenagers hailing from Layyah district of Punjab attacked their own headmaster, […]
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