Pakistani woman Shamin Akhtar Butt, mother of kidnapped Mahnoor Fatima, 6, holds a placard and a picture of Mahnoor at a police office in Jhelum on March 16, 2010. – AFP
JHELUM: When six-year-old Mahnoor Fatima disappeared, her mother’s world collapsed. But she was too poor and abductions too common for Pakistani police to do much [...]
Strange things happen in the Islamic (military) Republic of Pakistan. For the first time in Pakistan’s history, a meeting of federal secretaries was presided over by a military chief in a civilian set-up. Where are we heading to? Have our real masters in the GHQ decided to be a bit more candid in demonstration and [...]
Whether you like it or not, the notion of blasphemy, or of ‘defamation of religion’, creates a hierarchy of beliefs which is simply incompatible with the plurality of the world, and the very right to hold a belief
The Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, recently announced the revision of the Blasphemy Law. For anyone remotely familiar with [...]
Last year alone, innumerable incidents made a mockery of the Punjab government and its denial. The truth is, there is no dearth of facts. The tragedy is, there is no visible action being taken to address the evil, which now resides within
“What world am I bringing my child into?” I didn’t have the answer to [...]
Extremist Islam is encroaching deeper into the Thar Desert and almost all district and tehsil headquarters of Sindh and Balochistan, where large numbers of seminaries, with new buildings and equipped with every kind of infrastructure, have been erected during the last few years
Lethal suicide blasts in Lahore on March 13, 2010, which killed more than [...]
Chairman, FPCCI Aviation committee, Mr. Yahya Polani, presenting a memento to the Country Manager of Etihad Airline, Amir Khan. Also seen present on the occasion are Ken Marshal, Muhammad Usman and Komail Polani.
