Eid al Azha (also known as Bakrid) is being celebrated in India and Pakistan today. In this connection, I may narrate a story. This incident happened soon after I was elevated a Judge of the Allahabad High Court in 1991. A petition was filed before me a few days before Bakrid by a lawyer belonging […]
321SharesIndia and Pakistan are both passing through a very turbulent and painful transitional period in our history–transition from a feudal to a modern society. It is a period when there is tremendous turmoil and social churning, as the old society is being uprooted, but the new society has not yet been born. When old values […]
381SharesThe recent extra judicial killing in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan by a policeman of a man acquitted by the court on the charge of blasphemy, after spending 3 years in jail, shows that Pakistan is drifting more and more towards savagery on its own citizens, often with legal sanction. In Pakistan, mere accusation of someone of blasphemy […]