Tag: religion

Rakhi Sawant recently announced her marriage to Adil Khan Durrani. At her wedding as per Islamic requirement, she recited Kalima ...

When studying African literature, this quotation from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart sticks out in my mind: “When they came, ...

The history of Punjab can be traced in the pre-Islamic era from the Indus valley civilisation to the Hindu Shahi ...

Around 1400 years ago, a young man brought warring clans together by settling the dispute on who would place the ...

On the 13th of December, Maulana Akbar Chitrali was screeching in the parliament, lamenting the ‘disgrace’ that a woman, Hina ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan granted bail to a blasphemy accused who allegedly joined a WhatsApp group that ...

John Butt is an Englishman who arrived in Pakistan in the 1970s, working and living in the Pakhtun regions. John ...

Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists ...

Pakistan is a strange land. It is the only place in the world where you can find the most talented, ...

Over 200 million women and girls in 30 countries across the world have suffered Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). It is ...

November of 1968 to February of 1969, were perhaps some of the most fiery times in the often troubled history ...

Diwali symbolises the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance”. Diwali is a main ...

Last April, The Friday Times - Naya Daur published my original piece. It was received well when first released, but ...

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

As much as you want dark truths to sink deep into mire, they rise again and again, like haunting demons ...

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

All Pakistani citizens are given the right to freedom of speech and expression, while there are some limitations, such as ...

As an old proverb goes ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. So is obscenity. In 2018, the Kerala ...

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 ...