Afghan women protest Taliban recognition
Around 25 women marched through a residential area in the Afghan capital on Saturday ahead of a summit in Doha.
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Extremism
Torching girls’ school and emerging situation in GB
By Safiullah Baig Diamer District is once again in the limelight for not a good reason but for a despicable
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Afghan women’s woes
In addition to needing a male chaperone to go places within the war-torn country, women are now required to bring a male family member with them if they hope to study abroad.
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The pied piper syndrome
We are faced with an intolerant generation that is self-righteous, hates dissent and wants everyone to think one way – which is their way. In short, we are reaping the fruits of the seeds we had sown ourselves in our classrooms and society at large. Today it is the misogynist, fascist Imran Khan, tomorrow it can be a right-wing extremist force which will use the same herd to its own advantage and ruin the already religiously intolerant and anti-women society.
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On defining Muslim
by Waseem Altaf Since the Muslims of the South Asian sub-continent were divided into ethnic, linguistic, cultural, provincial and class
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Remembering Mashal means resisting politics of hate
by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar When Mashal Khan was brutally lynched four years ago, the Tehrik-e-Labbaik-Pakistan (TLP) was still a relatively
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Feminism in Central Asia: what went wrong?
Zulaykho Usmanova addressing Women Forum in Dushanbe Feminism is not adequately perceived in Central Asian societies, writes Lolisanam Ulugova in
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CJP takes notice of video clip threatening Justice Isa
Pakistan’s top judge takes notice of a video clip containing derogatory, and scandalous language against Justice Qazi Faez Isa and politicians. In the viral video, a man identified as Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza can be seen giving threats to the Supreme Court judge.
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Rights activists decry vicious campaign against academics in Sindh
HRCP, PAC, WDF and WAF call for the immediate release of Professor Sajid Soomro and an end to the vicious
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Mashal Khan: Lighting a flame in our hearts by losing his life
by Aurangzaib Khan https://twitter.com/i/status/1249731834294030339 Days before Mashal Khan’s death, his mother Syeda Bibi had a nightmare. She saw him
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Sacred savagery
Ismat Shahjehan, president Women Democratic Front holding Mashal Khan’s portrait and other activists at the Student Solidarity March at Islamabad
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‘This is our version of the coronavirus. We are sick’, says Arundhati Roy
The award-winning author addressed a gathering at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow
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The graveyard talks back –I
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register
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Tajikistan seeks extradition of fighters, recruiters for IS
RFE/RL Four Islamic State (IS) extremists that Dushanbe is trying to extradite from Syria include Tajik militants linked
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Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood suspects detained in Tajikistan
Critics accuse the Tajik authorities of exploiting the state’s campaign against extremism and terrorism to clamp down on religious groups
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