Government crackdown on media stifles freedom of speech on November 15, 2018Crackdown on the print and electronic media in Pakistan started with the judiciary putting a media ban on Altaf Hussain, the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. After Altaf Hussain, the judiciary banned reporting speeches of the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz before Elections 2018, a well-planned action taken to […]
Discrimination against minorities in the name of religion on October 6, 2018So, I came across this picture which had gone viral on social media. It showed somewhere in Pakistan a doctor had reportedly designated separate thermometers (a device that measures temperature) to give to patients depending on their religion. If you were a non-Muslim in Pakistan, you couldn’t get the medicine from bottle marked/labeled as Muslim and I […]