Karachis ethnic cleansing on January 24, 2011Two journalists have died in the last few days — one was young Wali Khan Babar who was targeted by unknown assailants, the other was octogenarian Mohammad Minhaj Barna, an erstwhile leader of the journalists’ trade union, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). Both were in the same profession but were over 50 years apart […]
Governor Taseers assassination on January 10, 2011Salmaan Taseer has been assassinated and buried. But the fundamental question that cannot be buried with him is: why is religious intolerance on the rise in Pakistan? This question has been haunting the bloodied people of the country since its inception. Without going into the history of the Pakistan movement in the last century, we […]