Source: Muftah By Usman Ahmad March 10th, 2017 Recent months have seen Pakistan’s blasphemy laws come under the spotlight once again. In January, five liberal-leaning bloggers and activists went missing under […]
Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and SUHASINI RAJMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Pramod Dass, left, the director of Bethesda Charitable Endeavors, one of the Indian partners of Compassion […]
Source: BBC By Jonah Fisher Image captionThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority group from Myanmar A top UN official says “crimes against humanity” are being committed by the military and […]
Source: The New York Times By JON EMONTMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Ahmad Mushaddeq, a self-proclaimed messiah, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2008. He was imprisoned for blasphemy for the first time […]
Source: Dawn By Irfan Hussain I HAVE often wondered why the people of Pakistan put up with all the awful stuff they endure on a daily basis. Why don’t they rise up in protest against the incompetence and corruption rampant in the country? The state provides virtually nothing in the […]
Source: BBC By David Robson Four years ago, the British anthropologist Tom McDonald set-up home in Anshan, a small rural town between Beijing and Shanghai. His aim was to study […]
Source: BBC By Julie Bensman 10 March 2017 If you’re ever trapped on a deserted island surrounded by nothing except coconut trees, know that you’re not as doomed as you […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Rizwan Shehzad ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad High Court judge on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to scrub off all blasphemous content from local social media accounts. […]
Source: Time By Feliz Solomon / Lashio Mar 09, 2017 A steady stream of men, women and children arrive by the hundreds at Mansu Monastery in rural northeastern Myanmar. Each day […]
TOI An influential US lawmaker has sought a “radical reset” of ties with Islamabad and introduced a bill in the Congress that pushes the American government to declare Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism”, or give a detailed justification for not doing so in a limited time. More:
Source: CNN South Korea has been plunged into a period of political uncertainty after the President, Park Geun-hye, was forced out of office by a corruption scandal. The country’s Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach Park over allegations of corruption and cronyism. She becomes the country’s first democratically […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR India has a long history of migration. More than a century ago, large numbers of Indian migrants – many of them involuntary ones […]
Source: Reuters An Indonesian court has jailed three leaders of a group that Islamic clerics had called a deviant religious organization for up to five years for blasphemy, sparking condemnation […]
Epigraph: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:21 Suggested Reading Why Did Muhammad Fly to Jerusalem? CNN Documentary: […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kacem El Ghazzali Writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council Following the most recent terrorist attacks in Allah’s name in Brussels and elsewhere, the […]
Source: Times of Israel hey recruit them to the army, where they enter as Jews, but they’re not Jews by the time they leave,” he said. “Not in the genetic sense, but all of their values and priorities have been upset and we must not allow it.” “What happens if […]
Source: BBC More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghan officials say. Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients. Commandos who […]
Source: CNN The United States and North Korea are set for a “head-on collision” with neither side willing to give way, China’s top diplomat has warned. In a week of heightened tensions in the region, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned the US in unusually frank language against the deployment of […]
AMAL HASHIM Whatever conservative conceptions you had of the province of Gilgit Baltistan should be removed by now because the region has managed to have its first female judge since 2006. And she is definitely someone you do not want to cross. Her court is one of the strictest […]
Beverley Milton-Edwards Wednesday, February 22, 2017 MARKAZ King Abdullah II of Jordan has had every reason to be pleased with himself lately. Following the January inauguration of President Donald Trump, […]