My daughter and Kainat

Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The sky was as azure as the sea and the trees never looked so verdant. Summer was just around the corner, […]

Eurasia needs a Sino-German axis

Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The shooting down of Malaysian airline flight MH17 and the loss of all 298 people on board have cast a dark shadow on the Ukraine conflict raging for months between pro-Russian and pro-Western forces. The tragedy has made the international position of […]

Religious doublespeak- by Yasser Latif Hamdani

Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — Given that religious scholars are nothing but shopkeepers of religiosity whose livelihood depends on such hatemongering, it is hardly surprising that Ashrafi resorts to such incitement to violence. The deadly attack on Ahmedis, killing one unborn child, two little girls and one old grandmother, […]

Booming black market in surrogacy

Source: NY Times: As in most countries, surrogacy is illegal in China. But a combination of rising infertility, a recent relaxation of the one-child-per-family policy and a cultural imperative to have children has given rise to a booming black market in surrogacy that experts say produces well over 10,000 births […]

While we persecute you

Daily Times: by Aisha Fayyaza Sarwari — It is savagery at its worst, with everyone as an accomplice because there is a disagreement about your religious beliefs, under which many are unsure what kind of punishment is required. Yet there is no disagreement about random extremists acting out the judge, […]