Cross-Border Contacts In South Asia: Why Privilege Religious Visitors Over Other Motivations?
Every few weeks one reads that Pakistan and India have granted visas to religious pilgrims or built a special corridor ...
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Making Of A Messiah: The Emergence Of Political Religion In Pakistan
Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones ...
The Perils Of Conceptual Reality
I’m sure by now you must have come across people (mostly on social media) who let loose a barrage of ...
Prosperous Rebels: The Curious Romance Between Lifestyle Liberals And Right-Wing Populists in South Asia
At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...
Breaking The Silence Around Anxiety Disorders
I was a shy normal kid. Just a tad bit more curious, perhaps. But nothing about me was non-compliant. I ...
What Misogynistic Backlash Against Aurat March Tells Us About Pakistan
In any society, women are an integral part of the social framework. Sadly, women in Pakistani society have been subjugated ...
Bidding Farewell To Dr Mehdi Hasan – And Pakistan’s Progressive Story-line
In Australia, amongst the indigenous aboriginal people, storylines or storytelling has been valued as the traditional ways of preserving culture, ...
Turkey And The Fruitless Quest For A Monolithic Islamic Totality
It was 6:30 in the morning. I was having börek and Turkish tea, one sip a slice, for breakfast. The ...
Local Actions, Local Voices: How Pakistanis Are Working To Build New Educational Paradigms At The Grassroots
For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...
Local Actions, Local Voices: How Pakistanis Have Been Joining Hands To Counter Violent Extremism At The Grassroots
For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...
Looking For A Centre: The PML-N’s Roots And Evolving Ideological Trajectory
The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even ...
Parity Not Partition: The Vision That Drove Mr. Jinnah’s Politics
I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a ...
How To Make Children At Religious Schools Safe From Abuse: Towards A Madrassah Policy
Numbering more than 30,000 madrassahs, they often serve free education, food and sometimes shelter to around 4 million poor children ...
Taking Stock Of The Pakistani Christian Experience This Christmas
A few years ago, I intended to walk into the Christmas season with fresh ambitions, and dreams. However, I was ...
Senate Condemns Lynching Of Priyantha Kumara: Delegation To Take Resolution To Sri Lanka
The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution unanimously condemning the incident where a Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara was ...
Fires Of Fanaticism – And How We Might Put Them Out
Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...
Foucault’s Political Spirituality, Punjab And TLP
Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to ...
Insecurity At The Top Of The Power Pyramid And Courting Extremist Outfits: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I vividly remember the days in March 1993 when the Supreme Court was holding contempt proceedings against former Chief of ...
Will Sialkot Tragedy Change The State Policy Of Appeasing Religious Fanatics?
The brutal lynching and burning of a body in Sialkot is a continuation of violence in the name of religion ...
Roots Of Rage: How Barelvi Militancy Became A Mass Political Force
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) did not emerge from a vacuum. The roots of the party lie in how Sunni Barelvi ...
Maulana Tahir Ashrafi Comes Out Against Ads ‘Unnecessarily’ Featuring Women Despite ‘So Many Good-Looking Men’
Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has criticised advertisements which feature women “unnecessarily” in ...
The Police Force Widely Sees This Deal With TLP As Another Betrayal Of Its Services And Sacrifices
The police is considered a first line of defence in any country. One of its core responsibilities is to maintain ...
How To Move Pakistan’s Discussion On Women’s Safety Beyond Victim-Blaming
Pakistan is ranked 151 out of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index Report 2020. Last year, according to ...
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IHC Summons Mir Shakilur Rehman Over ‘Anti-Judiciary’ Advertisements
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has summoned the...
Yasin Malik Sentenced To Life Imprisonment By Indian Court
A Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in...