A Muharram procession in Tarlai area of Islamabad was allegedly attacked by unknown individuals who pelted stones at the attendees while chanting hateful slogans against the Shia community. A woman is said to be injured in the incident. An eyewitness told Naya Daur Media on the condition of anonymity that a mourning procession comprising some […]
It started with the rain. The unexpected, alien, and un-accounted for monsoon, the seventh ungodly spell in a city that barely gets two spells of rainfall a year. The thunderstorm was unstoppable for almost a week and left the biggest urban center of Pakistan –Karachi — heavily flooded. Besides the densely populated lower-income areas, what […]
To retain a certain ‘version’ of Islam has been the prime objective of the Pakistan state, more as a weakness rather than a matter of strength. Pakistan was born in midst of chaos and so much unfinished business that it never has been able to recoil itself and settle the tension between being both a […]