In many countries around the world, women’s choices about their attire and appearance are restricted to some degree by government laws, policies or regulations. In recent years, most of these countries have had laws or policies that ban women from wearing religious attire in public places or limit t

If like me you were born and raised in Pakistan, probably you have attended a local school where we as children learnt at an early age the “conspiracy of the non-believers against Muslims.” You may say whatever in its defense, but our reality is troubling.
Little children’s minds are forced to stu

Although the governments of UN member countries had adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015, a lot more work needs to be done to deliver on these promises by 2030. Thirty-six Asia Pacific nations had met in Thailand for Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)

The Easter massacre in Lahore that killed scores of men, but more significantly, women and children out on a Sunday evening outing, has brought the battle right at the doorsteps of Punjab from where both the Sharifs – Prime Minister Nawaz and Army chief Raheel – draw their principal support. If Naw

Kurds despite being the one of the largest ethnic group in Middle East numbering perhaps 35 million were denied a nation of their own as a result of the deliberate Anglo-French carving up the map of the collapsed Ottoman Empire following the First World War. Kurdish culture predates the birth of Isl

In Pakistan, freedom of religion exists but only on paper because the number of incidents affecting religious minorities continues to rise like anything. Just take the case of Sana Shahid, a thirteen year old Christian girl that was abducted last year in November by some Muslim men.
Sana Shahid wa

With all respect to Muslims…….. Multiculturalism is failure. And that was reason for Pakistan. There is no point when Muslims migrating to Western Nations and imposing them to accept them or otherwise call them as racists. Does Christians migrate to Muslims nations? Do they accept Christians as all?

The first ever public holiday for Holi, the festival of the Hindus and Easter for the Christian minority, has not gone well in Pakistan. The two holidays combined with a bunch of reformist and liberal measures and gestures by the Nawaz Sharif Government have the conservatives asking in protest wheth

Recently we celebrated the 76th Pakistan Day with traditional zeal and pledges to strengthen the country by eliminating terrorism and striving for greater political stability and sustainable economic growth. Every year this day is marked on March 23 to commemorate the 1940 Lahore Resolution — the fi

“The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.” Martin Luther King: "Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself." Philip Berrigan, American Peace Activist.
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Although he has assured the government of his return, by all available indications, Pakistan’s retired General Pervez Musharraf has gone into exile, yet again, for good.
He was allowed by the government for “urgent medical treatment”, following a Supreme Court order lifting a ban on his foreign tr

I am grieved to write on topic of bomb Blast over the humanity again and again. Blast recently was attacked in the Gulshan Iqbal Park, Lahore dated 27th March 2016. I want to lighten mysterious plan of Satan against Pakistani Muslim and Christian. I collectively want to present”school of thoughts” d

Unfortunately Easter day attack on Christians in Pakistan is not first and if proper action is taken then will not be the last (ii)- Organized Christianity will not come to the rescue of Pakistani Christians (iii)- USFSDSAARC the only solution to the problem of Pakistani Christians (iv)- With $ ~ 15

It has been many decades of neglect and oppression for the Hindu community in Pakistan. They have faced considerable persecution and kidnappings have been routine. This has been particularly the case in Sindh province. The 1998 census records less than 2.5 million Hindus in Pakistan, the majority re

Today, a Muslim friend asks the question to American Christians: “Christians, since you haven’t been able to get rid of these terrorists, how do expect Muslims to get rid of ISIS?” The posting is accompanied by a photograph of members of the Ku Klux Klan with an American flag. Having fought this bat