Even before JD Vance reached Islamabad, he was already everywhere in Pakistan — eating nihari, getting a degree, watching his used T-shirt being sold in Sunday market, and being asked for his nikahnaama.
Veteran journalist Abbas Nasir cites advertising pressure and threats to editorial independence in the final column, which focussed on tensions in the Persian Gulf.
A Lahore court ordered musician Meesha Shafi to pay 5 million PKR as compensation to Ali Zafar. The ruling stems from a dispute that became Pakistan’s most prominent #MeToo case.
Analyst Burhan-ud-din Awan said that Pakistan’s ‘backdoor diplomacy and foreign policy, supported by Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir’ have played a significant role in bringing Iran to the negotiating table.
Rimsha Colony, one of the largest informal settlements in Islamabad, is home to thousands of working-class residents, many of them Christians employed as sanitation workers and domestic labourers.
Aimal Wali Khan, the leader of the Awami National Party, has long spoken out against the cross-border tensions between the Taliban and Islamabad, and Pakistan's support for the regime in Kabul.
Some Pakistanis expressed their anger against the Pakistani military, with one user saying that ‘the generals have failed at everything they have done since 2022 and they will continue to fail’.
Local reports said Hamza Ahmad Khan told his sister that he was in the custody of Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, detained in connection with ‘defamatory posts’ made online.
Pakistan’s decision to withdraw the boycott came after an ICC delegation held meetings with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi regarding the team’s participation in the ICC T20 match against India.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Any mention of paedophilia in the context of Islam leads to immediate mortal danger in terms of Sar Tan Se Juda. In recent times the death of Kanhaiyya in Rajasthan is proof. In general Muslims are free to criticize everyone else since they expect a secular environment. But no one should criticize Islam since the muslim public would react emotionally and would be justified in being violent and destructive. The hypocrisy of modern liberal societies is mind boggling.
A person who consummates a relationship with an underage person, a child say 9 years of age is considered a paedophile in all modern societies. No matter what God they claim to worship or receive revelations from.
Any mention of paedophilia in the context of Islam leads to immediate mortal danger in terms of Sar Tan Se Juda. In recent times the death of Kanhaiyya in Rajasthan is proof. In general Muslims are free to criticize everyone else since they expect a secular environment. But no one should criticize Islam since the muslim public would react emotionally and would be justified in being violent and destructive. The hypocrisy of modern liberal societies is mind boggling.
A person who consummates a relationship with an underage person, a child say 9 years of age is considered a paedophile in all modern societies. No matter what God they claim to worship or receive revelations from.