Kashmir: peace of the graveyard (Part-II)on August 24, 2019The courts were acknowledged that Afzal was a surrendered militant who was in regular contact with the security forces, particularly the STF of Jammu and Kashmir police. How do the security forces explain the fact that a person under their surveillance was able to conspire in a major militant operation? Is it plausible that organisations […]
Kashmir: peace of the graveyard (Part I)on August 24, 2019Human rights abuses in the Jammu and Kashmir state are an ongoing topic. The mass killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to political repression. Some human rights groups say more than 100,000 people have died since 1989 while the official forms from Indian sources state the estimates of number of civilians killed due […]
Hinduon July 29, 2019I lived most of my life with misconceptions about different religions and sects, but since I got back from Hajj some 10 years ago, I have spent most of my time reading about misconceptions and unanswered questions. May I take your permission to clear the misconceptions about Hinduism; it may help to respect people without […]
A refugeeon July 8, 2019In the early hours of September 2, 2015 a three years old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnic background Alan Kurdi drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Alan Kurdi and his family boarded a small plastic or rubber inflatable boat, which capsized about five minutes after leaving Bodrum in Turkey. Sixteen people were in the boat, which […]
Benazir Bhutto and freedom of presson June 21, 2019While addressing a ceremony on World Press Freedom Day in Karachi, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that Pakistani media is facing undeclared censorship. Legal action is also employed to keep the press quiet. According to a report on the state of Pakistani media in 2018 published by the Pakistan Press Foundation, seven […]
Be the heroine of your life not the VICTIMon February 3, 2019On third January it was Khadija’s birthday, while she was cutting her cake; I asked her how confident she is about her appeal against the acquittal of Husain Shah’s sentence? She smiled back at me and said, “I have faith in the current judiciary. It was a tough decision initially after the attack to stand […]
Flying slippers and an astronauton January 22, 2019After meeting several charities based in Pakistan, I decided to work with Read Foundation to establish a school in Azad Kashmir, because READ foundation takes the responsibility from acquiring the land to building the school, and finding teachers too. I have chosen the responsibility of raising funds for the total cost of the building of […]
‘Clash of Civilisations, women and democracy’on December 23, 2018To understand different civilizations, we need to understand the fault lines that could lead to conflict. We are dealing not with a clash between civilizations but rather with a clash within a civilization. The fundamental ethos of Islam is tolerance, dialogue, and democracy. Just as in Christianity and Judaism, we must constantly be on guard […]
A life lived with or without religionon November 14, 2018Pakistan: Asia Bibi a Pakistani Christian woman was convicted of blasphemy in 2010, and sentenced to death after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) during an argument a year earlier with Muslim colleagues. The workers had refused to drink from a bucket of water Bibi had touched, because she […]
Modern slaveryon October 29, 2018The “sex work” discourse has turned the world’s oldest profession into the world’s most modern profession. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country, from being legal and considered a profession to being punishable by death. Prostitution has been practiced throughout ancient and modern cultures. Prostitution has been described as the world’s oldest […]