11 AUGUST: JINNAH’S PROMISE BETRAYED

Jinnah Institute: By Yasser Latif Hamdani On 11 August 1947, the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (“PCA”) met for the first time. The inaugural session was presided by Shri Jogindranath Mandal, president of the Scheduled Caste Federation and a member from East Pakistan.  In this session, the PCA elected Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]

Tragedy of Human Callousness

By Maryam Hedayat “Muslims are busy in shopping for Eid and people of Gaza are busy buying coffin every minute” wrote one of my Palestinian friends on her Facebook status. No doubt, I was really very sad and upset over what she expressed in solidarity with her fellow Palestinians. Millions around […]

Iraq: The Disturbing Rise of the Islamic State

  They’re Killing Us’: The Disturbing Rise of the Islamic State By Katrin Kuntz and Christoph Reuter REUTERS… Der Spiegal International The Islamic State is conquering cities in Syria and Iraq with disturbing frequency and tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis are fleeing. The US has begun air strikes, […]