Tag: religious

About 18 to 20 Ahmadi families used to live in my old neighborhood. Now, none of them are there as ...

“Our enemies know that they cannot beat us fair and square, and thus, they have subjected us to a cruel, ...

The most terrible blot on our country’s fair name is the injustice perpetrated against Pakistan’s tiny Ahmadi community which has ...

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

The whole 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were characterised by the battle of ideas raging ...

Pat Sharif was a historical village whose landscape was dotted with the shrines of saints, khanqahs, mosques and madrassahs. The ...

Aamir Liaquat Hussain has passed away in Karachi at 50. The larger-than-life and controversial figure has come to embody some ...

With the publication of the US State Department annual report to the Congress on international religious freedom, Ambassador at Large ...

A large number of people from came on the roads in the hilly town of Nagarparkar to register their protest ...

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 ...

I’m sure by now you must have come across people (mostly on social media) who let loose a barrage of ...

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

I was a shy normal kid. Just a tad bit more curious, perhaps. But nothing about me was non-compliant. I ...

In any society, women are an integral part of the social framework. Sadly, women in Pakistani society have been subjugated ...

In Australia, amongst the indigenous aboriginal people, storylines or storytelling has been valued as the traditional ways of preserving culture, ...

It was 6:30 in the morning. I was having börek and Turkish tea, one sip a slice, for breakfast. The ...

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

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

The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even ...

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

Numbering more than 30,000 madrassahs, they often serve free education, food and sometimes shelter to around 4 million poor children ...

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

The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution unanimously condemning the incident where a Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara was ...

Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...

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