Articles with tag: masjid
Another Lal Masjid in the Making?
Ahmad Bilal Jun 8, 2008 interacts: 105The 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.
Late Afternoon at Masjid Wazir Khan
Salma Omar Mar 21, 2008 interacts: 13“Aapni ki Bengali”? I asked him as we finally reached the lattice worked balcony that encircled the minaret from where the muezzins have been calling the faithful to prayers for centuries.
6th December 1992
M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007 interacts: 86A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.
The Paradox Cult
Shabbar Shah Sep 3, 2007 interacts: 5The hypocrisy with which the cult leaders lure and seduce; poor and illiterate parents and their children alike, under the banner of Islamic teachings.
Boots, Beards, Burqas and Bombs
Beena Sarwar Aug 23, 2007 interacts: 30The Lal Masjid operation has intensified Gen Musharraf’s problems - An Analysis.
What about Bombay 1992?
Aijaz Zaka Syed Aug 14, 2007 interacts: 169As the perpetrators of Bombay 1993 are brought to justice, it is only fair to ask where are those who planned the Bombay 1992 carnage?
Our National Mea Culpa
Feroz R Khan Aug 13, 2007 interacts: 39The Individual, The State and Lal Masjid: The failure of Pakistan to develop a tradition of dissent in its politics
Lal Masjid: Lessons Learnt
Muhammad sadiq Jul 26, 2007 interacts: 227What is the take away for the Government, the Clerics, and the Liberals.
Moral Policing is the Same Everywhere
M B Qasmi Jul 22, 2007 interacts: 7The Lal Masjid\'s occupants might have changed, when will the moral policing system in Indian subcontinent change?
A Letter To President Musharraf
Khadija Hassan Jul 13, 2007 interacts: 542Mr. President – we do not desire any more simpleton rhetoric or illogical declarations. We want you to take positions and then stick to them. … We want to allow alcohol and its attendant sins, regulate them, and use them to generate MUCH NEEDE
Preventing More Lal Masjids
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 10, 2007 interacts: 961What should the government do after the guns stop firing and the hostages are out, whether dead or alive?
Countering Our Very Own Frankenstein
Beena Sarwar Jul 10, 2007 interacts: 6According to media reports, pro-Taliban elements like the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Moham have already clashed with the military. The TNSM has reportedly seized all highways in the area, including the Silk Road leading to China.
Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?
Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years
Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines
Farzana Versey May 3, 2006 interacts: 204Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra
Broken Stones
Farzana Versey Dec 5, 2003 interacts: 76I had forgotten that my mother was a Hindu. They had changed her name from Savita Damle to Salma Khan. To me it did not matter…Yet, I wondered whether that stone was for me or them.
