Pakistan

US lawmaker seeks changes in Pak blasphemy law

Source. TOI A Hindu youth was shot dead on Wednesday as communal tension gripped a district in Pakistan’s Sindh province following alleged desecration of a holy book by a man from the minority community who was arrested for blasphemy.Tension ran high in Mehran Samejo village in Ghotki district after a […]

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair…’

Source. ET Radicalisation, that word we all think we now understand, that comes off the shelf as well, and it does not have to be a long and intensive process, it can happen within hours or days. And where there are groups of highly-suggestible people with a powerful sense of […]

Ahmadi, Christian marriages not being registered

Source: ET The petitioner submitted that before soliciting her hand in marriage Alfred Masih had introduced himself as a Muslim. PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: The Walton Cantonment Board and the Lahore Cantonment Board do not register marriages of Christians and Ahmadis, stating that they only register marriages solemnised under Muslim Family Laws Ordinance […]

Can Pakistan’s president house host its Ahmadi citizens on an Eid celebration?

Source: ET There are over three million (1% of the United States population) Muslims living in America. Even though anti-Muslim animus is generally on the rise across the country, President Obama has increasingly stood up for the Muslim American community. He has passionately promoted pluralism and diversity in the United States and vouches for religious tolerance […]

Jinnah Considered Ahmadis Muslims

Source. Media Library As our anchors and TV channels commit national and logical suicide by referring to Ahmadi Mosques  as “marakaz” and “Ibadgahs”,  we must remind ourselves of the views of Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah who relied heavily on the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and its brilliant son Ch. Zafrulla Khan (whose […]

The third gender

Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]

After Brexit Germany exposing its Military Muscle

Zubair K Khan During current NATO summit in Warsaw, Germany showed willingness to pledge to station rotating military battalions in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2017 as a collective deterrent against Russian adventurism which clearly indicates Europe’s most populous country wants to assume a bigger defence role, within the frameworks […]