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Pakistan is in dire need of many Asiya Nasir’s, why is answered in the video below: Asiya Nasir’s speech should shame and awake all Pakistanis to the ugly face of today’s (read Zia’s) Pakistan. Asiya Nasir is an MNA from Balochistan who is right to criticise Pakistan’s treatment of her minorities.  The speech reminds us all of our [...]

Intolerance killed Shahbaz Bhatti. It is the same intolerance that killed Salman Taseer before him and will kill many more unless Pakistan awakes from its comatose state and confronts and defeats the hijacking of Islam in its name. As I said in my post in January on Salman Taseer’s killing here, ‘the right to disagree, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]