At the start, I should like to inform you that the gist of this lecture has been made at various Pakistani forums already. Indeed, the part relating to Pakistan was
At the slightest hint of normalisation of relations with India, every Pakistani government is accused of selling out on Kashmir. Yet, as the 1998 elections showed, a political party that
Kashmir is the main excuse that India and Pakistan use to justify the high cost of their militarisation. It is not merely the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir who suffer
Pakistan's fiercely independent Pakhtun tribals become sacrificial lambs for Shariat.
Malakand's Islam is no different from the one being practised by the Taliban in Afghanistan,"
Interview with Junoon's Salman Ahmad
Sangeeta Lama and Khalid Ansari interviewed Salman Ahmed of the group Junoon about their music, their Sufism, the controversy surrounding their tour of
It does not matter whether they are Muslim or Hindu, conservative forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India seem to have found a common enemy: Women.
One of the first things
