Hina Hafeezullah Ishaq

With the emergence of the culture of the social media in the past few years, a lot has changed. One is now able to connect with friends and family, worldwide, sitting within the confines of one’s home. Work and information have become much easier as accessibility is at one’s fingertips; letters have taken the form […]

A marriage in Christianity, especially the Catholics, is traditionally seen as a holy union, which no man should put asunder, hence the vows “…to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward […]

“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable,” says the UN’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Today is International Women’s Day and the UN’s theme for this year is: “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” […]

“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable,” says the UN’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Today is International Women’s Day and the UN’s theme for this year is: “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” […]

Nestled amidst the great mosque and the fortress, near the tomb of the poet of the east and Ranjit Singh’s Samadhi, lie the narrow streets crowded with people, smelling of aromatic foods, open sewage and urine at the same time, of what is known as the ‘Heera Mandi’ or the red light area. My first […]

For the first time ever, King Abdullah appointed 30 women to serve on Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, a 150 strong, previously all-male consultative body. The good news is that the king has decreed that women should always hold at least one-fifth of the 150 seats in the council, whose function is primarily to advise on […]

Montana State Representative Jerry O’Neil requested the state’s Office of Legislative Services last November to be paid his salary in unadulterated gold and silver coins. The reason cited for this unusual request was the feared probable collapse of the dollar, as the US Department of Treasury stated the federal debt stood at $ 16.2 trillion. […]

“A man of manifold and staggering achievements, Shaikh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahirul Qadri is the founding leader of the Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International (MQI), an organisation with branches and centres in more than 90 countries around the globe, working for the promotion of peace and harmony between communities and the revival of spiritual endeavour based on the true […]

One of the downsides of being a parent is being needlessly burdened with the obligation to discipline one’s offspring. I say ‘needlessly’ as recently I have learnt that ‘discipline’ is indeed an over-rated, over-dated, and maybe by now, a redundant notion, which is probably only practised by people like me, relics of an era gone […]

Human life has no value in our country and I have no clue why. We Pakistanis are pretty emotional when some catastrophe befalls our own, but remarkably un-emphatic when it concerns another. Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old young man, was allegedly shot by the sons of influential men. The facts as narrated by the father of […]