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Hibatur Rehman

Call for total gun ban up

Inquirer: “We thought these things happen only in the US. Now it’s starting to happen here.” The death of 7-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella by celebratory gunfire in Caloocan City on New Year’s Eve and the shooting rampage three days later in Kawit town in Cavite province that left eight people […]

The story of an injustice

Daily Times: Ayesha Asghar. The survivor is a Bheel, not just Hindu but also a scheduled caste one. The rape of children from scheduled castes is, unfortunately, very common in Sindh The survivor is a student of Grade I, in the district of Umerkot in Sindh. She is much younger […]

The Islam women were promised

The Washington Post: Musa Furber. The earliest generation of Muslims took pride in their compliance to the Koran’s injunction to abandon female infanticide, an act that was often done to prevent shame to the family. Thus for centuries, Muslims have taken pride in their contributions to the rising status of […]