Jun 4, this year marks the twenty sixth anniversary of Indian Army’s assault on the holiest of the Sikh shrines, the venerated Golden Temple, in 1984. The seismic jolts that the assault unleashed changed India forever and the tremors of the aftershocks can still be felt. Their latest manifestation was the [...]
Pakistan is not only a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic society but it is also a multi-religion society. The latest census data indicates that around 4% of the total population is Non-Muslim; little over 6,000,000. Though 6 million may look smaller number when compared to the total population of 170 million but it is still more [...]
The Sikh religion is based on three important pillar The Guru (Teacher), The Garanth(Holy Book) and the Khalsa (Brotherhood of the Pure).It all seems so familiar because of similarity with the religion of Islam. Nowadays one cannot objectively analyse Islam, without provoking Fatwa of One kind or the other. The debate, discussion and Ijtehad (innovation [...]
President Zardari’s Peace formula for india and Pakistan
The PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT under President Zardari started peace initiatives with India taking tentative steps to liberalise Trade and tourism with India. Zardari doing a live webcast (his firstever) with english speaking Internet users in india and coining terms like “we are all half indian/half pakistani” was very optimistic.
In the Time [...]
Irrespective of that who made Al-Qaeda, Taliban etc like groups and used for what reasons and on what fronts, when the utility of such groups is over then defaming and creating and projecting negative (required) image is done by use of media and diplomatic channels. There could be certain different affiliations of these created groups and [...]
In methodology of US law or else, whereby, it awards legitimately, “free speech” in the contest of expression, means, a “freedom to communicate with all forms of expression”…………… mode and platform to respond in lieu of speech is in the domain of retaliator, depending on his trait, qualities and threshold to accept brunt, and the brunt itself depends on his previous or innate abilities as tolerances.
Though the constitution of Pakistan doesn’t allow a non-Muslim to hold the top office, but then who cares about the constitution here. Just for an instance ignore the constitution (which is extremely easy at least here), and let’s answer this question, would you accept if some competent, sincere, able, and deserving person becomes the [...]
