These acts of confessional desecration have claimed 1152 lives and maimed another 2780 innocent people, mostly co-religionists. Not a single incident has provoked any mullah, Media Mujahid or any media house to cry blasphemy. (From Viewpoint Online) In last ten…
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Will India Ever Deliver Justice To Human Rights Violations In Kashmir?
by Fahad Shah •
Even though United Nations rapporteur on human rights violations Margaret Sekaggya visited Kashmir on January 19, India has failed to deliver justice to human rights violation victims in the Kashmir valley since the armed rebellion erupted twenty years ago. The…
Pakistani Ulama: Need for Humility and Compassion
by Masood Raja •
Most of us who have spoken or written against the recent murder of Salman Taseer by a zealot and have opined about the legality of the Pakistani Blasphemy law are now being told, by our friends as well as our…
Terror Claims 8496 Deaths Annually
by Qaisar Abbas •
Religious Intolerance Sweeping Pakistan
by Mustafa Qadri •
Dead in My Tracks: Salmaan Taseer, the Mullah of Bourbon St and Freud’s Uncanny
by Fawzia Afzal-Khan •
Fawzia Afzal-Khan's Memoir Republished
by Masood Raja •
This is to let you all know that Fawzia Afzal-Khan’s Memoir, Lahore with Love, has now been republished and can be ordered through her website and through the website of her new publisher.
Thanatopolitics: Murder as a Shortcut to Paradise
by Masood Raja •
Image by Salmaan Taseer via Flickr Much has been said and written after the tragic murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, at the hands of a religious fanatic. Not surprisingly, the fanatical fringe of the Pakistani Islamist parties…
Suicide Bombing: The Martyr Machine
by Gabriele Marranci •
(From Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist) Imagine that your country suffered an average of 71 suicide attacks per-year. Imagine that these suicide actions killed an average of 1,140 civilians per year, all among the most poor and in need. If…