A common Shia Muslim saves throughout his life to perform the fantastic pilgrimage to the holy places in Iran and Iraq. He saves his money by not traveling by air and travels by bus. It costs much less and by bus, a pilgrim manages to see much more places and also can stay longer at [...]
I have grown up, like many others, in an environment and society where no one was happy to tell me the simple fact that I am Muslim and I belong to Pakistan. It sounds strange but it is a fact, because we have a very strong sense of details we love to divide everything and [...]
Innocent Shias have been killed. 31 dead and 281 injured injured. What was the crime of those killed? That they are Shias? And what about the killers? Did they become better than the Shias by killing them?
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced a compensation of Rs 500,000 for the heirs of each of those killed and [...]
After Lahore blast, people will give you different reason for the blasts; they will say that it is Pakistan and America’s fault; America and Pakistan trained these people earlier to fight against Soviets, and now they have turned against both; they will say these people have nothing to do with Islam, and Islam is a [...]
The terrorist targeting of the 10th Muharram procession in Karachi somehow was not unexpected despite the horror that it created - with over 40 innocent mourners and security personnel dying and many more injured. A day earlier there had been a less intense attack on a mourners’ procession, and a similar more devastating act of [...]
The first 10 to 12 days of first month of every Islamic year become a problem for the Pakistanis, as the sectarian tension increases between the Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Especially during the first ten days, Shia Muslims produce procession to mourn the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA). These processions pass through the whole cities [...]
Divide and Rule, the golden and proven successful policy of the British which helped them in ruling the Sub-continent for years. The irony is that they landed on our land with a handful of traders who formed East India Company.
Read the history and relate it to our present day scenario, Are not we spending rather [...]
Taliban’s and similar siblings are known culprits as deviant who have macerated the real picture of Islam and, under no means prerogative as awarded by functionaries in lieu of this grant as Nizam-e-Adal is acceptable, ethically, morally and legally.
The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, in its meeting here, has discussed the proposal of “Post-Divorce Muta” for wives as ordained in the Holy Quran by revisiting the half-century-old Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 and the West Pakistan Family Courts Act 1964 keeping in view the changing needs of the society. The commission observed [...]
Afghanistan’s President, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law which “legalises” rape, women’s groups and the United Nations warn. Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through parliament in a bid to appease Islamic fundamentalists ahead of elections in August.
In a massive blow for women’s rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for [...]
