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.…
Tag Archive for Salmaan Taseer
On Dishonest Maulvis, Harsh Laws, and Minority Rights
by Masood Raja •
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…
Salman Taseer Remembered
by Pervez Hoodbhoy •
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…
A Question of Faith: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan, Sherry Rehman
by Masood Raja •
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…
Pakistan Forum: Most Visited Blog Entries this Year
by Masood Raja •
Mullahs in Nation-Building
by Masood Raja •
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.…
Aljazeera: Listening Post on Pakistani Blasphemy Laws
by Masood Raja •
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…
Fight The Real Enemy
by Mehreen Zahra-Malik •
Some Good Pakistani Blogs
by Masood Raja •
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.…



