With the current ‘infidelity’ discussion in Pakistani society – especially on social media – that involves some high profile figures, the country’s public opinion has adopted roughly three approaches to this debate. These could broadly ...
On May 5 the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-led federal government rescinded an earlier decision to include the Ahmadiyya community in the reconstituted National Commission on Minorities.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 ...
The Prophet (SAW) in his last sermon had exhorted to hold fast to the Holy Book and to his Household, for these would never allow his followers to be led astray after him. At another ...
Present-day orthodox Sunni Islam owes 90% of its philosophy to al-Ghazali. The major school of thought i.e. Hanafiya and all its subsets also extract their major teachings from the thought of Ghazali. For example, Shah ...
When a baby is born, his religion and faith is automatically determined as per the beliefs of his or her parents. The newborn does not have a say in deciding this important part of his ...
Why is it that most Facebook pages being run in the name of Farhat Hashmi, Tariq Jameel and the likes aggressively market their videos on the topics of ‘marital sex’, ‘adultery’ and ‘Hoors’ etc? Watch ...
Opposing women empowerment movements, blocking minority rights ideas and preventing the spread of modern political ideas coming from the outside world has been the hallmark of our clergy since Pakistani came into being, writes Umer ...
Three years ago, today, a 23 year old student, Mashal Khan was lynched by a mob of religious extremists in Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, over false allegations of blasphemy. Later, 57 suspects were ...
Almost every religious tradition in world history carries a myth along the lines of the Great Flood, narrated in the local idiom. In other words, it was a flood which affected the whole of mankind, ...
One of the oldest fundamental rights of a human being was the right to disagree, or the right to dissent. Many in Pakistan, owing to state propaganda and constant indoctrination, fail to understand what ‘dissent’ ...
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