What are the fears and concerns of Pakistan’s minority communities? Does the government offer any protection to the vulnerable and persecuted? Will we let extremists have the last say? Join Newsline for a live chat at 7pm today to discuss all this and more.
Before this week’s trade meetings, there have been promises of visa reform, and soon Pakistan is supposed to supply India with a new “negative list” detailing the goods that cannot be exported from India into Pakistan.
What impression are we giving the world by being so haughty and by undertaking moral-policing? What lessons are we teaching our children? And what dangers are we exposing people to?
This is where “breaking news” is ‘broken’ in such a way that it can never be ‘fixed.’ And here, Pakistanis, in general, buy the spin and live happily ever after.
It’s ironic that while bikini-clad wrestlers face-off in what Ijaz, as match commentator, pitches as the match of the century, the bigger denouement to a thrilling clash of wits may be just round the corner.
Salmaan Taseer was tragically gunned down a year from today for speaking up against the country’s controversial Blasphemy Law. Newsline has compiled interviews with and articles on the former governor of Punjab as well as the Blasphemy Law debate.