Enforcing respect by ordinance?

Daily Times: The PML-N’s rise to power has brought back, to some extent, the straitjacket religiosity of General Zia’s dark years in power. The ministry of religious affairs, in the beginning of this Ramzan, was pleased draw the attention of the public to the ‘Ehteram-e-Ramzan Ordinance 1981’ (the Respect of […]

Even when it brutalises one of its own teenage citizens, America is helpless against Israel Over the last fifty years America’s ‘strongest ally’ has acquired a sense of smug invincibility

BY MIRA BAR HILLEL THE INDEPENDENT What makes young people snatch a stranger their own age, beat him up, force petrol down his throat before setting him on fire? And what makes officers of the law hide their faces, snatch a slight 15-year-old and beat him senseless? And then the […]

Even when it brutalises one of its own teenage citizens, America is helpless against Israel Over the last fifty years America's 'strongest ally' has acquired a sense of smug invincibility

BY MIRA BAR HILLEL THE INDEPENDENT What makes young people snatch a stranger their own age, beat him up, force petrol down his throat before setting him on fire? And what makes officers of the law hide their faces, snatch a slight 15-year-old and beat him senseless? And then the […]