UN Concerned At Rise In Forced Conversions, Child Marriages In Pakistan
United Nations human rights rapporteurs have expressed outrage at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages, and conversions of underage ...
Monday, January 30, 2023
Tag: slavery
Searching For Civil War Memorabilia In Georgia
I saw the all-time epic Gone with the Wind in Karachi in the late 1960s. It glorified the way of ...
Saragarhi, The British Humiliation Of 1897 And Modern Propaganda
125 years ago in August 1897, the might of the British empire was challenged by the Pakhtun tribes around the ...
Human Trafficking Raises Question On Global Community’s Humanitarian Commitments
The dawn of globalisation and the subsequent interconnectivity in the aftermath of World War 2 has ushered in an era ...
American Dystopia
It snowed late last night in Washington: perhaps a fitting end, in some metaphoric sense, to a day that marked ...
Farewell To Colonial Past: Barbados Is Declared World’s Newest Republic, Queen Elizabeth II No Longer Head Of State
Barbados has declared itself a republic, officially removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and replacing her with Dame ...
Of Festive Feasts And Historical Narratives
Turkeys do not look forward to November and December. We do. Thanksgiving has long been my favourite holiday tradition in ...
Rediscovering Humanity: Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
The last couple of years have brought about a resurgence of the debate on race, caste distinctions and slavery within ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
PTI Decides Imran Khan Will Contest All 33 NA By-Elections
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced that it will...
Beyond Fantasy: This Historian Depicts Ottoman Power In Real Life
In Pakistan, as in much of the Muslim...