Tag: religious

Imran Khan and his close political associates are well known for their support and admiration for the Islamist extremist groups ...

The famous Marxist, late Meraj Muhammad Khan, once told me that he wept when Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto ...

The Truman Doctrine, which gave impetus to the practice of 'regime change’ in countries that were perceived as being against ...

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

Since the 1950s, the anti-Ahmadiyya card has been used in Pakistan’s applied and electoral politics for extra milage. Particularly after ...

An eminent German philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, had defined enlightenment as 'The emergence of humanity from the self-imposed immaturity.' The enlightenment ...

The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...

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 ...

Yasir Masih is a 30-year-old man working in a large-scale organisation in Pakistan as a sanitary worker. He has been ...

In Karachi, the Festival of Lights ‘Diwali’ is celebrated to foster the message of interfaith harmony, brotherhood and peace by ...

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, ...