Hindustan Times: The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Hindu Marriage Bill 2015, becoming the first provincial legislature in Pakistan to formalise the recognition of marriages of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain minorities. Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) general secretary Deepak Kumar Bhagchandani said the bill fulfilled a long-standing demand of […]
Source: Daily Times It is a losing proposition for liberals to engage the clergy, especially given that there are no liberal scholars of Islam grounded in Islamic history and jurisprudence, at least in Pakistan, who can challenge the established sectarian narratives of Barelvis and Deobandis Justice A R Cornelius, being […]
Source: Times of India ISLAMABAD: After decades of delay and inaction, the Hindu minority community in Pakistan will soon have a marriage law as a parliamentary panel has unanimously approved […]
Dawn: When my mother first announced that we would be going to the mosque for taraweeh, I was scandalised, to say the least. I must have been around 12 or 13 years old. It was Ramazan and there was a flurry of activity in the house right after iftaar. Her […]
It is a losing proposition for liberals to engage the clergy, especially given that there are no liberal scholars of Islam grounded in Islamic history and jurisprudence, at least in Pakistan, who can challenge the established sectarian narratives of Barelvis and Deobandis Justice A R Cornelius, being a liberal catholic […]
By CARLOTTA GALLFEB. 6, 2016 The funeral of Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul in January. Credit Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TUNIS — PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan […]
Source: Dawn By Asad Jamal Asking the CII to review the blasphemy laws is pointless. THE chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Mohammad Khan Sherani, has indicated the CCI […]
Source: The Daily Beast A boy cuts off his own right hand because it offended God. Pedophilia is holy. To question is to risk execution. Welcome to a nation in […]
Dr Abdus Salam and all the wrong choices Pakistan made By Nayyar Afaq Published: January 29, 2016 http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/31969/dr-abdus-salam-and-all-the-wrong-choices-pakistan-made/ 65 CommentsPrintEmail Today is the 90th birthday of Dr Abdus Salam. The best way to wish him is to let freedom of religion and intellectual thought prevail in the country. PHOTO: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT What […]
Source: The Pioneer By Ashok Malik, who is senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. He can be reached at malikashok@gmail.com Farahnaz Ispahani in her book, Purifying the Land of […]
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Ashok Malik | Farahnaz Ispahani in her book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, bravely records not just the near-annihilation of religious minorities in Pakistan, but also the intensifying sectarian conflict Farahnaz Ispahani’s recent book, Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s […]
ET, Good news emanating from the education sector anywhere in the country is rare indeed, even rarer when the good news comes with even better news for the religious minorities. There is a diversity of religious minorities in the country — Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu and Zoroastrian to name but […]
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016 06:22 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016 06:30 PM EST While much of the West is pre-occupied with the war against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the Saudi-Iranian war of words, 2016 began with a far more dangerous development. Nuclear […]
بلو ایریا اسلام آباد میں کھلے عام عورتوں کی تضحیک طالبان آ نہیں رھے طالبان آ گئے ہیں
By Humayon Dar Published: January 25, 2016 Need for them to shift from money management to adding broader socio-economic services. PHOTO: FILE LONDON: Many industry observers assert that all Islamic banking products in essence are replicas of conventional banking products, be they Islamic deposits or financing products based on leasing or […]
Both countries are waging a war on terrorism, but their enemies appear to have several faces Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 21 January 2016 People move the body of a victim outside a hospital in Charsadda, Pakistan EPA Like Pakistan, like Turkey. If the university massacre outside the old North West Frontier […]
Review on Urdu book Salaam Abdus Salam (Tribute to Abdus Salam) 2015 Even though Dr Abdus Salam passed away 19 years ago in November 1996, he is still remembered the world over. In 2012 after the discovery of Higgs boson, and the contributions Dr. Salam had made towards this discovery, […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Pick: Forty Hadiths or Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad about Compassionate Living Source of News: ABNA24 January 23, 2016 – 8:11 PM News Code : 731641 A Pakistani […]
Source: Daily Times LAHORE: Experts from the United Nations have urged Pakistan to halt the ongoing construction of Orange Line Metro Train (OMT), as it poses a direct threat to a large number of protected heritage sites and historic buildings. They said the government’s forced eviction of residents from their […]
NY Times Op Ed: KARACHI, Pakistan — According to our security analysts, the massacre of students and teachers at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday proves that we are winning against terrorism. A month before that, Pakistan marked the first anniversary of the Army Public School attacks in Peshawar, […]