Should one expect to see more ministers adopt the agenda of the fundamentalist lobby henceforth, in order to save their own skin or curry favour with them?

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.

Laws are meant to discipline and protect. In Pakistan, not all laws do either.

The Lahore High Court will look into the “record of previous petitions filed against the social networking website Facebook” and consider a permanent ban.

The Pakistan dream is now a nightmare as we have abandoned the vision of our founding father.

“Minorities are collateral damage in the battle for Pakistan’s soul,” says Ali Dayan Hasan, the Pakistan representative for Human Rights Watch.

Just over three months into the new year and already numerous blasphemy cases, murders and acts of vigilantism on religious grounds have been reported.

Every March 8, politicians across the spectrum express their firm resolve to ameliorate the status of women. But if newspaper headlines are anything to go by, life for most Pakistani women remains unchanged.

Extremists take the life of yet another person attempting to put a stop to the misuse of the Blasphemy Law and secure the rights of minorities.

A letter is being sent by the Citizens for Democracy to the President, Prime Minister, Interior Minister, Chief Justice and heads of all political parties to take notice of, and action against the growing extremism and acts of vigilante justice.