Tag Archive for Salmaan Taseer

Minorities in Pakistan-Dead and Alive

by Parveen Talpur • September 8, 2012

Rimsha Masih, an 11 year old Christian girl has been arrested on blasphemy charges. According to some reports, she is suffering from Down syndrome and is a minor, between 11 to 16. Even if she is 18, it is laughable.…

by Masood Raja • September 3, 2012

Last year when the case was being made to alter or abolish the blasphemy laws, the argument from the liberal and progressive minority of Pakistan was mobilized primarily to point out as to how the law could be misused to…

by Pervez Hoodbhoy • January 2, 2012

Governor Salman Taseer died at the hands of a religious fanatic on January 4 last year. Fearlessly championing a deeply unpopular cause, this brave man had sought to revisit the country’s blasphemy law which, as he saw it, was…

by Masood Raja • June 9, 2011

Why a report on the status of religious minorities? As part of the Jinnah Institute’s Open Democracy initiative, ‘A Question of Faith’: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan’ is a research-based analysis of the same. It…

by Masood Raja • May 10, 2011

Provided below is a list of posts that have been popular with our readers so far this year: 05/09 : Thinking of Che and The World 05/08 : Of Cuban Cigars, Rum & Coffee 05/06 : Naked emperor, dead rabbit…

by Masood Raja • March 31, 2011

By and large, after the Zia-ul-Haq years, we have totally conceded the public sphere to the mullahs: you cannot think the nation without running into one or the other bizarre articulations of the nation by one or the other mullah.…

by Masood Raja • March 21, 2011

In this weeks Listening Post aired on March 18, 2011, the media coverage of the Pakistani Blasphemy laws was the second main segment of the weekly show. The first part of the show covered the coverage of Japan disaster. The…

by Mehreen Zahra-Malik • March 20, 2011

Far more dangerous than the actual acts of terrorism and violence perpetrated on Pakistanis is the fear, obvious most among those who govern us. We are all united in our conviction that suicide attacks will not cease, and that we…

by Masood Raja • March 14, 2011

Now that we have started aggregating content from selected Pakistan-related blogs, we have found a rich array of blogs dealing with various aspects of Pakistani life. I thought I should take a few moments to introduce some of these blogs.…