Tag: muslim

Hardline Hindu nationalist outfits have petitioned courts in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, calling for Muslims to be prevented from entering ...

Three great luminaries of Pakistan’s superior judiciary are Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius, Justice Dorab Patel and Justice Bhagwan Das, ironically ...

As the end of Ramadan draws near and Eid approaches, it is my privilege to wish that this blessed time ...

This is a sad tale. A tale of an unfortunate woman. A tale to reaffirm that life is not fair; ...

If I were to sit down and make a list of ten people who have impressed and influenced me most ...

There is a huge media hype in India on the movie Kashmir Files, which depicts the persecution of Kashmiri Pandits ...

A car drives down a dusty road in Sargodha district and stops at a little village. From the car alights ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, a Pakistan-based jurist serving as Supreme Court judge, issued a powerful and debate-provoking judgment on ...

At the time of Pakistan’s creation in 1947, the only established student organisation was the Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the ...

Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...

Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by ...

By war and battles here, I do not mean actual armed conflicts. What I mean is a tussle between various ...

The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to ...

During a recent appearance on a TV show, controversial journalist and ‘intellectual’ Hassan Nisar stated that the country needed a ...

I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a ...

Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hilary Clinton, relates the story, in her newly published memoir (Both/And; published by Simon ...

Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...

The ‘Islamic Golden Age’ produced many remarkable scholars in science and literature. During the five-and-a-half centuries between circa 750 and ...

India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social ...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...

Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to ...

The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse ...

The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) did not emerge from a vacuum. The roots of the party lie in how Sunni Barelvi ...

In August 1947, British India was partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan. The western half of Pakistan comprised ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan is enamored with religious symbolism. His overt use of a rosary, the religious jargon in his ...