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ColumnsA broad survey Followers of the revealed religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to name the great three – broadly fall into two categories according to their beliefs, regardless of their professed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/21/two-religions/" title="Read more" >...</a>
A concise rebuttalMany Muslims and non-Muslims are critical of alleged discrimination or sexism in Islam. Ask one of them for instances of it, and he is likely to cite the following (all too f
ColumnsJourney from great to immortal‘Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. It appears that God works the same way, only His tragedies are performed
ColumnsSetting the record straight The Indian Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the so-called triple-talaq bill, making pronouncement of triple-talaq a criminal offence, cognizable and non-bailable with imprisonment and a fine. The bill<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/31/the-triple-divorce-issue/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Recap of the year in the land of mysteriesIf the US is the land of opportunity and Japan is the land of the rising sun, Pakistan is the land of mysteries, mostly of the perpetually unresolved
ColumnsOn article 37(h) of the constitutionThe international media as well as the local liberals never tire of accusing Pakistanis of being intolerant of religious minorities and their ways of life.
ColumnsNo humanist or feminist was harmed while writing this Up until a few years ago, one used to be in the happy position of being able to go a couple of weeks<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/09/on-isms-and-ists/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThere’s more controversy than there needs to be Some things in life never change. Almost every week there’s a heated debate on the social media about hijab or purdah. Most men have<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/03/hijab-or-purdah/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Is there a more useful word in any language? Muslims are known to say it all the time, of course; but there are good reasons to believe that the inshallah epoch has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/26/the-inshallah-age-has-only-just-begun/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThe state needs to reclaim it What do Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafii, Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal have in common? It’s well known that all of them were men<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/18/the-mosque-pulpit-doesnt-belong-to-clerics/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsRecycling of music in the name of reinvention needs to stop The widespread public disapproval that manifested itself against the Coke Studio version of Ko ko korina was long awaited, although not<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/no-more-fusion-or-tributes-please/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsOn oversimplified political ‘theories’ It may be too early to give a verdict one way or the other, but the protesters may have gone a bit too far for their own good<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/04/fairy-tales-and-political-commentary/" title="Read more" >...</a>
