A good measure of a society’s health is to simply observe how it treats its weakest and most helpless members. By that criterion Pakistan’s treatment of its Christian minority would indicate an ailing body politic risen by poisonous bigotry and religious intolerance.
Christians, thought to be aroun

Reghu went to Bastar with Vice Chancellor Dwindra from Raipur. It was a pleasant six-hour drive, stopping at a variety of places, starting with the new capital of Chhattisgarh and then to its latest university area, where Vice Chancellor Dwindra had bought a piece of land to settle after his retir

In Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, and in other nations, you have rampant Sunni Islamic nihilism being funded and assisted by Gulf petrodollars. This Sunni Islamic nihilism firstly wants to usurp all mainstream and moderate forces within Sunni Islam and then to crush minor

All the propaganda against Syria and the obvious fact is that all religious groups only feel secure where the armed forces of Syria are in full control. All sectarian and terrorist forces are being sponsored openly by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other small feudal kingdoms in the Gulf. Meanwhile

Learnings from Project ORCHID's pioneering work on harm reduction in northeast India shows that scale up is possible even in resource poor and conflict ridden settings. A national dissemination workshop organized by Project ORCHID in Delhi saw sharing and discussion on best practices on harm reducti

Death is the most certain stage in life. Every person definitely has to pass through this stage. For every being that is bestowed with life, the arrival of death is a must. Every living being will one day die. Every eye that sees will one day lose its light. Every tongue that speaks will one day fal

Xolelwa Joni, a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) survivor spoke with Citizen News Service (CNS) at the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health. This is what she said: “My name is Xolelwa Joni and I am 26 years old. I come from Cape Town in South Africa. After finishing my secondary schoo

To fathom the pedestal of Allama Iqbal necessitates predominance of not only a rational, just and broad mind, but also a passionate, mystique and spiritual heart. The duplet is often missing either in the hands of unorthodoxy as undercut in the name of modernity, or the prejudice as nurtured by myop

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) issued a position statement at the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, warning about the potential health impact of e-cigarettes (ECs) and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). The statement which was d

Tariq Masih aged 25, and Arif Masih aged 27 (brothers) has been allegedly accused of blasphemy on October 27, 2013 by a local Muhammad Zahid. A nominated case FIR no. 533/13 offence under section 295/B according to the Pakistan Penal Code has been registered against Tariq and Arif after being accuse

The Killing of Pakistani Taliban aka Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud along with his four associates by the drone strike in the lawless North Waziristan agency has jeopardize the proposed peace talks between the Pakistani Government and Taliban. The drone strike came at a time

The country of Bangladesh is facing a new Islamist threat which seeks to usurp the secular nature of this nation. Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) opposed the creation of Bangladesh during the independence struggle of this nation in 1971 against the tyranny of Pakistan. During this period massacres on a scale r

Islamist militants in Nigeria inflict yet another brutal massacre against the people of this nation. The brutal reality of Boko Haram and other Islamist militant groups in Nigeria is that killing all and sundry is their modus operandi because morality never enters their vocabulary. Therefore, while

After a long struggle, the Indian Subcontinent won independence in August 1947. This independence was on the basis of the ‘two nation theory’. The country had been divided ostensibly to solve communal conflict between Hindus and Muslims. But, the Partition did not achieve this. In fact, it further e

There is no doubt that investment and thrust for more effective new diagnostic and treatment tools for tuberculosis (TB) must go up but alongside it is equally imperative to optimally use existing technologies. "Innovation has the ability to change the world. Innovative approaches lead us to concret