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[27 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | Farieha Aziz]
Interview: Mansoor Raza

“Equal punishment should be given to the accuser who lodges a false FIR,” says researcher Mansoor Raza.

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[25 Feb 2011 | One Comment | Ilona Yusuf]
Interview: Kyla Pasha

In conversation with Newsline, poet Kyla Pasha delves into the dark realities of the human soul, questions convention and challenges the injustice of her time through her work.

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[30 Dec 2010 | 2 Comments | Saad Hasan]
Interview: Ishrat Husain, Director of IBA and Former Governor of the SBP

“This country has always come out of economic crises – ours continues to be a very resilient economy,” says Dr Ishrat Husain, Director of IBA and former Governor of the SBP.

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[28 Dec 2010 | 27 Comments | Farieha Aziz]
Interview: Dr Khalid Zaheer, Religious Scholar

“A law that punishes people who are involved in the act of blasphemy, to me, is not directly derived from the Quran,” says this scholar.

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[27 Dec 2010 | One Comment | Farieha Aziz]
Interview: Iqbal Haider, Former Secretary General, HRCP

“The most barbaric and inhumane practices are being propagated in the name of religion in Pakistan,” says Iqbal Haider.

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Interview: Sherry Rehman, MNA with the PPP

When it comes to either a repeal or amendments of the blasphemy laws, Sherry Rehman says that “there is very little appetite for both.”

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[23 Dec 2010 | 10 Comments | Ayesha Tammy Haq]
Interview: Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab

“This is a man-made law, not a God-made one,” says Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab, about Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

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[18 Dec 2010 | 3 Comments | Farieha Aziz]
Interview: Mairaj-ul-Huda Siddiqui of the JI

“Scholars of varying sects agree with the death penalty for blasphemy,” says Mairaj-ul-Huda Siddiqui, Amir of the JI in Karachi.

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[29 Nov 2010 | 2 Comments | Sairah Irshad Khan]
Interview: Shahi Syed, ANP President in Sindh

“We are not at war with the Mohajirs – just the party that claims to represent them,” says Shahi Syed of the ANP.

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[29 Nov 2010 | 2 Comments | Sairah Irshad Khan]
Interview: Zulfiqar Mirza, Home Minister, Sindh

“For the sake of their own community, the MQM should stop the killing,” says Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza.