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January 2011′s B-side is Salman Taseer-centred and is at its core, an exercise in Pakistani introspection. All of the article authors are Pakistanis writing on Pakistan, indeed such introspection is necessary  if Pakistan is to make any progress in the years ahead and has come about after the brutal killing of Salman Taseer. The first two articles focus [...]

Javed Ahmed Ghamidi is one of the finest Islamic minds of any generation and of all time. Ghamidi saab is one of the few sane voices of reason in Pakistan and more widely in the Muslim world.  He has served Islam with a distinction unparallelled by anyone in my lifetime and is a man mountain of knowledge whom I [...]

Bilawal Zardari has recently taken a vocal public stand on the blasphemy debate after the killing of Salman Taseer. In choosing to openly condemn the murder of Salman Taseer and the forces behind it, that have hijacked Islam to pursue their own evil ends,  Bilawal has shown strength in his convictions. A video of the speech delivered in the Pakistan High Commission is shared [...]

GUEST BLOG BY Nadeem Arif Najmi Tauheen-e-Risalat When the constitutional head of our largest province is brutally murdered by a man employed to protect him; when the murderer is greeted with flower petals by lawyers and when Islamic scholars of the intellectual and moral calibre of Allama Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (the greatest scholar Islam has [...]

Intolerance killed Salman Taseer today.  The right to disagree, even to hold an opinion and independently think for one self without fear or favour is no longer safe in the present Pakistan of hate. Pakistan’s soul as a nation is being wripped apart by the Talibanisation of the mind whereby might-is-right tendencies have given rise to the my-way [...]