Secular Democracy: the only way forward for Pakistan
From the Blog pakteahouse Mustafa Kamal [image: pakistan] Today, on 15th March, 2015. Two Taliban suicide bombers attacked a Christian church in Lahore, killing almost 14 and injuring around 76 people. The death tolls will increase, it is doubted. Previously, Christian churches have been vandalized, and towns resided by Christian community have been set torched and looted by fundamentalist Islamic groups. Number of Christian individuals have faced severe punishment as they were falsely accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. As a state, Pakistan finds it hard to compromise with its growing religious militancy. Both the secular and religious allies of Pakistan like America, United Kingdom, Saudia and Iran have a coherent framework concerning with their respective secular and Islamic state ideologies. But aspakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Barricaded Heart
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* Spent the entire morning with my mother on Mall Road; for my ‘last’ photo-walk of sorts – I leave Pakistan in 11 days. We spent a good hour at the Lahore Museum, walking around, taking photos – throughout, my heart was so heavy about leaving Lahore, my home, my family, my dogs. We drove down Mall Road and my mother kept slowing down for me so I could take photos of the GPO, the Lahore High Court, NCA, etc, saw barbed wire everywhere; barricades, armed cops with their walkie talkies amidst sand bags, propped up outside each building, each college. Everything bolted up, fear – fear in the air. But it was such a beautiful sunny, windy day – spring in full bloom, really. It was beautiful. And then, the news of the suicide bombs blasts outside two churches in Lahpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
US Professor’s Journey to Islam
From the Blog mtrtmk US Professor of Comparative Religion Finds Islam pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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