The Pakistani Spectator

Shoaib/Sania/Ayesha triangle and the resultant media furore has brought some disturbing things about Indian Muslim community and its personal laws. It shows that Pakistani Muslim personal laws are far ahead of India at least with respect to marriage and divorce.
Indian Muslim is governed by the Muslim personal law(shariat) Act 1937.Pakistani Muslim is governed by Pakistani [...]

To wear the Hijab is certainly NOT an Islamic obligation on women. It is an innovation of men suffering from a piety complex who are so weak spiritually that they just cannot trust themselves! The prophet had instructed Muslim women to use the extra cloth in their headscarves to cover their breasts. Nowhere was their [...]

I thought TPS should publish this interview for the very interesting insight which Flavia Agnes( a victim of male chavunism in her christian marriage)brings to the issue of women’s rights in Sharia.
Flavia Agnes is a leading feminist scholar, women’s rights lawyer and social activist based in Mumbai. She has written and worked [...]

By Pradheep Shanker, M.D., M.S.
www.Neoavatara.com/blog
This week gave an interesting contrast to the potential futures of India and Pakistan.
In Pakistan, the government has been trying feverishly to come to some agreement with tribes in its western provinces, in order to bring some sort of peace there.  So the Pakistani government basically [...]

The common experience of British dependencies in Asia was direct, custodial rule over a prolonged period. I believe that this is the principal reason why constitutional democracy has fared better there than in the Arab Middle East.
That experience was shared by the two largely Islamic states that had formed part of colonial India: Pakistan [...]

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phillips, has said that the United Kingdom may introduce the principles of Islamic Sharia law into some aspects of its legal system. According to an Arab TV channel Lord Phillips, the most senior judge in England and Wales, said there was no reason Sharia law principles [...]