American drones are shattering Pakistani lives. But behind moral obscenity is political reality, says Maruf Khwaja.
"Nobody can go until their time is up", said Benazir Bhutto to an Indian television channel in the traumatic aftermath of the first attempt on her life on
1947, the year India was divided, was a bewildering time for everybody – a little less for the “beneficiaries” of partition, a lot more for its victims. Like millions who found
It was always a matter of time before Iraq came to Pakistan. In a week of murder and mayhem to rival the bloodiest carnage of the Sunni-Shi'a war,
It would be tempting to explain away the latest turn in the continuing Pakistani saga of survival by saying that the cauldron which had been simmering on relatively low heat
Ehsan Masood is one of the more intelligent and serious of British writers, which makes it all the more surprising that in his openDemocracy column "‘British Muslims: ends and
Inexorably, the old adversaries India and Pakistan seem to be sliding back to the brink of conflict, in the nuclearprimed powder keg of their subcontinent. It is scant comfort
In 1953, Abul A'la Maududi, founder of the movement dedicated to converting the state of Pakistan into a wahhabi caliphate, instigated the country's first sectarian riots.
Is Pakistan's western region of Baluchistan burning? Are its bitterly contested gasfields aflame? Are fuel supplies to Pakistani cities, which rely wholly on the national Sui gas grid,
As usual, God is being unjustly blamed for tragedies that are the consequence in large part of human failure. Maruf Khwaja weighs the balance of cosmic justice and earthly negligence
The growth of religious diversity: Britain from 1945
edited by Gerald Parsons
Routledge | December 1993 | ISBN 0415083265
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The image of British Muslims in the media and among the public is often coloured by prejudice, exaggeration or stereotype. The truth is that this group of around 1.6
