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Swat: Can the deal work?

zubair torwali Jul 10, 2008

After the peace deal between the Taliban and the government people thought that normal life would return to the troubled district of Swat.

Another Lal Masjid in the Making?

Ahmad Bilal Jun 8, 2008

The walls were filled with anti-west hate slogans, “Al-Jihad Al-Qital” (holy war, bloody battle) written everywhere around the central mosque. This was not the Bahawalpur I knew.

Muslim Profanities

Kyla Pasha Feb 24, 2006

I look at pictures of the ravaged Al-Askariyya dome, and I want to know: what is the religion of a mosque-destroyer? Does a bomber say Fatiha over the people he’s killed?

You Failed Us Mr. President

Mubashir Butt Oct 12, 2004

In the words of great Martin Luther King Jr.: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice' and justice we demand from you sir.

Ashura: Atonement, Mourning and Return

Kyla Pasha Mar 2, 2004

Someone’s holy work is death, I register. And someone else’s is reporting that 150-word story for the AP. And someone else’s yet again is that bold typeface. This is it. This is grief for the electronic age.

On Tolerance

Ayesha H Ahmad Jan 20, 2004

Everyone cannot kill a human being. But do you support the people who say that Shiites are not Muslims?

Dec 31, 1969

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