The Christians who mourned for the lynched Muslims
From the Blog pakteahouse *By Mohammad Ali Ilahi* [image: Human chain5] This week, a group of students from LUMS lead by the Democratic Students Alliance and as part of the Hum-Aahang initiative (Human Shield for Our Christian Community) went to a Sunday mass to form a human chain outside the Nawlakha Presbyterian Church near the Lahore Railway Station. This was in reaction to the twin suicide blasts that had taken place a week ago in Youhanabad targeting the largest and perhaps one of the most productive minorities in Pakistan. The ensuing lynchings that followed and the animosity which they created for the larger Christian community were all the more reason for us to visit the church and spread the message of tolerance and co existence. [image: Human chain8] The Church service starts at 09:30 am anpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Who are you? Where have you come from?
From the Blog gollgappay Who are you? Where have you come form? We spend our whole lives crafting answers to these questions. We spend day after day after day defining who we are, we try to stat true to ourselves, we attempt to be mindful of our values when we conduct ourselves in society, in polite company. Who are you, we are trying to figure out. Some of us spend years laying down roots. Other expend time and effort to distance ourselves from our roots, rise above our origins, overcome circumstances, elevate our situation in life. I am reading Anne Tyler's *A Spool of Blue Thread* these days and there is a scene in the book where we hear these questions as a character's internal musing. "Who are you? Where have you come from?"It made me think. What answer do I have for these questions. The answer Ipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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