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Why are the Arabs deaf to Gazan pleas?

In recent weeks, we have once again been seeing the images of destruchttp://www.themuslimtimes.org/wp-admin/edit.phption, death, smoke and fire with Palestinian residents of Gaza wandering about in the ruins of what once was their neighborhood. “Where are the Arabs?” they have asked the television cameras, aiming with two words in Arabic the […]

Footprints: No space for Ahmadis

Dawn: TWO policemen stand guard over the charred remains of Boota’s house in a narrow alley of Arafat Colony off Racecourse Road in Gujranwala. They were deployed there on Monday to protect the ashes. For further security, the police have locked up the house, inside which may lie evidence against […]

Pakistan’s shrinking minority space

The Hindu: The desire of Islamist extremists to ‘purify’ Pakistan has resulted in a major catastrophe for the minorities. The country cannot emerge as a modern pluralist state until the reversal of this culture of intolerance The murder in Gujranwala of an elderly woman, a seven-year-old girl and an infant […]

Do Shias have a future in Pakistan?

Do Shias have a future in Pakistan? By Soha Jafri Published: July 25, 2014, blogs.tribune.com.pk/23393 26 CommentsShare this Print Email So far in Pakistan more than 10,000 Shias have been killed (in direct attacks only). PHOTO: AFP How this could be possible? I shook my head in disbelief. “Ibn-e-Raza has […]

License to kill in Gaza

Summary Problems at the crash site (of MH 17) have prevented a full investigation, but the deaths of nearly 300 civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time were sufficient to spur action, and not just condemnation. In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people […]