Kaleem Dean

Following Captain Safdar’s recent comments aimed at inciting hatred against religious minorities, the ruling party found itself with its back up against the wall. Thus it was swift to don the mask that offers public proclamations of equal rights for all in Pakistan. Yet underneath, the face remains the same. The Prime Minister distanced the […]

I was eager to express my thoughts over the brutal killing of a 16-year-old Christian man, Arslan Mushtaq at the hands of Punjab police in Sheikhupura but was compelled to write on a different topic when, after the dramatic arrest and release from the NAB court, Caption (retd) Safdar made a speech against the Ahmadi […]

It seems the ongoing manifested discrimination against ethnic minorities has unconstitutionally become constitutional in the country as time and again, ethnic minorities’ issues of barefaced social injustices, bigotry, and tyranny are highlighted in the media, but customarily, heedless governments never ever take notice of the head-down minorities and their ever-increasing malaise. Thus the culture of […]

For the last few years, the disadvantaged ethnic minorities were raising their voice for electoral reforms to elect their own representatives with direct vote but their hopes shattered with the passage of the Election Bill 2017 when once again, their demand was not taken into account, whereas, in the blink of an eye, some ultra […]

During his recent stint at the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi gave an unwitting insight into the plight of Pakistan’s minorities. The venue was the Council on Foreign Relations. And it was Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch chief that caught him unawares. The question was innocent enough and pertained to the […]

Here in Pakistan, Asia Bibi remains a Christian prisoner of faith. Yet as her seventh year on death row draws to a close – it seems that the outside world has not forgotten about her. For she has been nominated for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2017. The Prize is an initiative […]

With the NA-120 by-election looming large, the Dear Daughter of the deposed Prime Minister received an overwhelming welcome by the National Christian Religious leadership at Lahore’s St Anthony’s Church. Undeniably, the clergy had been persuaded by the handpicked Christian parliamentary representatives to have the Church host a political event. Time and again the Christian community […]

During our school days, an interesting chapter called ‘Spreading of Islam in the sub-continent’ was included in Pakistan studies. While reading the topic, I understood that how inspiring Islamic saints were who, with their teachings, attracted millions of people to Islam. Similarly, in our Sunday school lessons, we were taught about God’s love, humility, and […]

The government recently approved a five percent job quota for minorities in all official departments. This development largely owes to the selfless efforts partaken by late Clement Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian Minister of the PPP cabinet, assassinated in 2011. The 1998 census showed as much as 20 percent of the country’s over 163 million population […]

A clip of a talk show aired on a private television channel has been going viral on social media, particularly Christian users, living both inside and outside Pakistan. Despite having telecasted a few months earlier, the recording has garnered considerable attention largely because of the depressing comments by one of its participants. Talking about the […]