Tag: islam

The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols. ...

I do not know much about the Pakistani film Joyland except that it has received rave reviews outside Pakistan but ...

Last month, the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) decision to organise a Women’s Sports Gala, a women-only event, stirred protests when ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...

Controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate has said that he has converted to Islam, causing many to raise eyebrows at the ...

This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions ...

Islamabad-based singer and musician Abdullah Qureshi's announcement that he is quitting a professional career in music for 'religious reasons' got ...

There are a few historical mosques in Pindigheb tehsil in Attock district which are mainly constructed of stone. These stone-built ...

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq on Friday said that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018 is against Islamic ...

A friend recently shared a video by Islamic scholar Javed Ghamidi, where host, Muhammad Hassan Ilyas, prods him through a ...

I visited many shrines in different villages and towns during my research on female saints in Pothohar. During the research, ...

Our prayers and blessings for the departed soul of the late great Queen Elizabeth II. Her death represents the passing ...

August 25, 2017 – An armed Rohingya group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked dozens of police posts ...

Self-serving Pakistani armchair critics excessively engage in Pakistan bashing instead of working within the community as internal critics. Such is ...

Decades after a fatwa on his head, Salman Rushdie was stabbed not by those whose sentiments were hurt with the ...

Pakistan Ulema Council chairman Allama Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has said that forced marriage and conversion were impermissible in Islam. He ...

With India and Pakistan celebrating the 75th anniversary of their Independence, we are both immensely happy and optimistic, and yet ...

Many remain unexposed to Karbala’s tragic story which has immeasurable spiritual weight. There is a need, now more than ever, ...

Faith in the nation-state In 18th-century Europe, philosophers began to note a steady degradation in the influence of Christianity. Sectarian ...

Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that ...

In contemporary American society, identity politics appears to have been increasingly appropriated by the ruling elite to serve their own ...

The Iconoclast Images of fanatical Chinese youth waving Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’ (Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) during the Cultural Revolution appeared ...

Ruttie Jinnah nee Petit was 18 years old when she married the 42 year old barrister and the then joint ...

In Lahore, the city of saints, one of the most revered Sufi-poets is Shah Hussain, whose short poems in the ...

Freeing Theology In the 19th century, when the idea of ‘Islamic modernism’ first emerged to address the challenges posed by ...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington has created a clash of scholarship ...