The filmmaker, Jamshed Mehmood, a.k.a Jami’s #MeToo story shook the collective Pakistani conscious to the core would be an understatement.
In a society where it is hard enough for a survivor to call out an average gali ka lafanga (street loafer), it is unthinkable for a man to not merely reveal...
M., who was kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery and raped repeatedly by fighters with the Islamic State, wept as she prepared to leave for Germany in January under a resettlement program. She was in a camp for internally displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, Iraq. Credit Lynsey Addario for The New...
India’s bubble
Any person possessing or eating beef in the great state of Maharashtra can now be imprisoned for a period of up to five years and fined Indian Rs 10,000. Consider the fact that Pakistan, which is officially an Islamic state, does not criminalise possessing or eating of pork...
http://tribune.com.pk/story/238836/flesh-trade-teen-hindu-escapes-2-year-forced-sex-work-nightmare/
KARACHI: Kidnapped and forced into sex work at the age of 12 years, N, a Hindu girl, thought it was a nightmare that would never end.
Duped by a man named Younus who was welcomed into the family...
Who is Mohammed Hanif Khan? and what he did as full-time Muslim minister (Imam) at Capper Street mosque
Among his duties he was responsible for leading prayers at the mosque and giving Islamic education lessons to boys who attended after-school classes.
Mr Khan, who was known as Sheik...
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A battalion of the Pakistan Army has grabbed the land of old villages of the coastal area of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. The fisher folk have been forced out of their ancestor villages and pressurised to leave the...