Tag: discrimination
Is Imran Khan’s 11-points agenda really a roadmap for Naya Pakistan?
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) organized the ‘mother of all Jalsas’ at the historic Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore with "dou nahi, aik Pakistan" being the main...
Dalit groom sets off with his Baraat despite strict caste restrictions
News Analysis | A Dalit man from western Uttar Pradesh scored a significant victory over the strict caste system when he was ‘allowed’ to take...
8 legislators demand new province in Punjab
News Analysis | Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar along with seven lawmakers have parted ways with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and are demanding a new province, citing discrimination...
BJP discrimination continues as Muslim dies in police custody
News Analysis | Tension prevails in India's northeastern state of Assam after violent protests engulfed the town of Dhula, some 100 km away from the...
Suicide bombing in Quetta church kills 9
AFP | A suicide bomb attack on a Pakistan church claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least eight people and wounded 30 during...
I take a special interest in issues related to my heritage:...
News Desk | Radical Islamists, Muslims from the west joining ISIS, Immigration policy for Muslims and UK’s relationship with Pakistan were all topics, Najma Minhas,...
Riz Ahmed, Sadiq Khan most influential Asians in Britain
News Desk | Riz Ahmed and Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, are the two Pakistanis that have bagged top positions in the list of 101...
Pakistan: Fixing religious fault-lines in the age of ISIS..?
Afrah Jamal | Pakistan's Bold Response to Sectarianism? A few days before Muharram, grand proclamations advocating peace and calm that suggested people shun their religious, sectarian...
After India & Afghanistan, Iran commits act of aggression against Pakistan
News Analysis | Iranian troops fired at least 11 mortar shells into bordering town near Panjgur district in Balochistan causing no casualty in a new...
Saudi Arabia Lifts Driving Ban on Women: Is Prince Salman’s Vision...
James M. Dorsey | Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited lifting of a ban on women’s driving, widely viewed as a symbol of Saudi misogyny, will likely serve...
Riz Ahmad, first British-Pakistani to lift the Emmy Award
News Analysis | Riz Ahmad became the first Asian British-Pakistani Muslim to lift an Emmy award in San Francisco for his leading role in the...
Babri Masjid case: BJP leaders charged for criminal conspiracy
News Analysis | A day after a special CBI court charged the Union Minister for Water Uma Bharti, as well as Lal Krishna Advani and...
Dalits asked to ‘get cleaned’ before meeting the UP Chief Minister
News Analysis | The firebrand Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath is once again in the headlines as a zealot Hindu. Shockingly residents of...
Do I just represent the ‘honor’ of the men in my...
Asma Razzaq | Do not go to the park as your brother would not like it, this is not America’, my mother scolded me when...
Who are “Radical Muslims”?
Z. Fareen Parvez | The Trump administration has been using the phrase “radical Islam” when discussing the “war on terror”. From his inauguration address to...
“You will Never be Accepted Here!” EU Court Allows Companies to...
Z. Fareen Parvez | The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which interprets EU law, issued a landmark judgment on March 14 that...
