Tag: religion

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

Last month, I attended a three-day summit to promote dialogue for global peace and inclusivity in Baku, Azerbaijan. More often ...

Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Ram Madhav’s recent statement -- calling Muslims to relinquish “three concepts of kafir (‘unbeliever’), ...

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

A wave of populism and majoritarianism seems to be engulfing the world. “Strong” men with demagogic tendencies armed with the ...

Every few weeks one reads that Pakistan and India have granted visas to religious pilgrims or built a special corridor ...

Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones ...

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

Pakistani analyst Nadeem Farooq Paracha (NFP) recently shared a tweet by the former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, ...

There were many who were shocked after witnessing a barrage of hateful posts and tweets when Malala was shot and ...

At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...

Landscapes of the Jihad by eminent Oxford University thinker Professor Faisal Devji explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands ...

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

For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...

Dr. Salam was born on the 29th of January 1926 in the conservative religious environment in Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan. He ...

On a beaten track On January 17, an article written by PM Imran Khan appeared in some English and Urdu ...

An article written by Prime Minister Imran Khan about the 'Spirit of Riyasat-i-Madina' has been criticized by the opposition, whose ...

About a century ago, the father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, turned the country into a modern secular nation ...

Many detractors of Prime Minister Imran Khan have been accusing him of following General Zia-ul-Haq's policies. They claim that extreme ...

It is a daunting task to draw a circle around Ejaz Rahim’s latest book of English poetry. Gardens of Secrets ...

Pakistanis spend a lot of time reacting on religious issues. I do not blame them, for their spirituality and sexuality ...

In the course of the 74-year history of Pakistan, we see that despite having different ethnicities from the same religion, ...

A few years ago, I intended to walk into the Christmas season with fresh ambitions, and dreams. However, I was ...

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

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...

The riled-up mob was chanting. They wanted to avenge themselves on him, they wanted him to come outside. Locked up ...