Parties Systematically Make False Pledges To Minorities: Report
Voters are often simple, honest people who wait for promises to be fulfilled that their elected representatives made before elections. ...
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Tag: Sikhs
Rebranding Forced Conversions As Love Marriages
After failing to adopt legislative measures against the forced conversions of non-Muslim girls, followed by marriages, the government has now ...
Queen Of Punjab: Mai Moran
I began my education in Gujrat in 1957 in a Municipal Corporation Primary School (a tat school) located near Islamia ...
Empathising With Partition Victims: Mercy Deaths Are Not The Same As Honour Killings
Thoha Khalsa would have been another nondescript albeit picturesque and peaceful village, if not for a blood-curdling event in 1947. ...
The Politicalisation Of Religion In India
After the partition in 1947, India decided to tread the path of secularism. Back then, all was as normal as ...
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 ...
Born To Be Brave – Col Siddiq Raja’s Journey From African Battlefields To The Rawalpindi Conspiracy
Lt Col Mohammad Mohyuddin Siddique Raja MC (Bar) belonged to the village of Dhok Qazian, which lies within the Salt ...
Hazrat Mian Mir: Beloved Saint Of Lahore
Lahore is a city of saints. Tombs of Data Ali Hajveri, Madho Lal Hussain, Bibi Pak Daman, Shah Jamal, Mauj ...
A Tale Of Two Massacres – II
The first part of this article described the massacre of Muslims in August 1947 in Rupnagar, East Punjab. In this ...
A Tale Of Two Massacres – I
One pleasant reward of writing for an online magazine like the one you are reading right now is the wide ...
Sufi Mystics And Warriors Of A Hidden Caliphate
We consider here an important work by a Pakistani American scholar on the Mujadidi Sufi networks that spread after the ...
India: BJP Goes After Sikhs Now, Bars Voting With Kirpan
Sikhs in Indian Punjab were stopped from voting in the provincial assembly elections by the police for carrying Kirpan — ...
Back To The Future: A Five-Cornered Election Contest Reminds Punjab Of The 1980s In India
On Valentine’s Day this year, when lovers all over the world will exchange affection and greetings, voters in the Indian ...
Gakhar Monuments Of Pharwala And Bagh Jogian
Monuments of the Gakhars, who ruled Pothohar in Punjab are found in many towns and villages of the region. The ...
Sikh Pilgrims Free To Visit Pakistan As India Opens Kartarpur Corridor After 20 Months
The Indian government has announced that it will reopen the Kartapur Corridor with Pakistan for the upcoming Gurpurab (day of ...
Exodus From Afghanistan: Muslim Refugees Abandoned In India’s Rescue Mission
Indian government’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which led to massive protests last year, is haunting it once again after ...
Afghan Sikhs Worry About Their Future
Tying his turban at the dormitory attached to the historic Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib near the Indian Parliament in New ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
IMF Links Staff Level Talks With External Financing Assurances
The IMF has linked the long awaited staff-level...
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections In October: PM Tells Alvi | Imran In LHC
Attorney General Resign | Govt-Judiciary War | Elections...