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I have been musing a little bit about belief, especially after a couple of outraged comments on the previous post about the absurdity of the...

Stung by intense criticism of the cretinism of Pakistan's maulvis and their perennial inability to reconcile even the basic concepts of...

Some of you may have seen the following ad, which featured prominently in the pages of The Daily Times ' Sunday magazine and the Expre...

By the way, just in case you would like to see copies of the court documents from the ' Raymond Davis ' case, attesting to the relat...

Ansar Abbasi triumphantly points out on the front page of The News today that what is "generally ignored in the ongoing discussions ...

Further evidence of the depths to which some in Pakistan have sunk. This is a short video of the Murtid Qadri being presented in court yes...

The gang-rape case in Karachi's upmarket Defence area - where two women were driven off the road by men in another car and one of them w...

Last month newspapers across the world carried stories about Lauren Booth ’s conversion to Islam . For anyone who isn’t British and doesn’t ...

About bloody time somebody said this in the US media! The programme is Morning Joe on MSNBC . The rant is by MSNBC staffer Dylan Ratigan ...

Some of you might already have seen this but, for me, the protest of the day award goes to…The NiqaBitches , two French students whose take ...

I tell you, thank God for Aisam-ul-Haq ! Because even though he lost the mixed doubles finals at the US Open today, there was far more grace...

I am not going to write about Wednesday's triple Lahore blasts during the Youm-e-Ali procession. Not because they didn't affect me ...

Thanks to Ali K. Chishti for sending us this...

Is this what is known as farce? The unbelievably twisted mindset of some people in Pakistan? Or is it simply the callous sprinkling of salt ...

Just in case you were in any doubt about the wellsprings of anti-Ahmadi hate that fueled last Friday's terrorist attacks, here are a cou...

A policeman carries a wounded victim in Garhi Shahu Lahore (source: AFP) I have to admit that all I really wanted to say or post today was...

A hilarious post on " Sexy Islamism " by ex-DawnNews journalist Khawer Khan pointed me in the direction of this clip of designer ...

Some people have asked us why he have not "covered" the bomb attacks in Karachi yesterday. This is meant simply to be a brief e...

No one, and by that I mean NO ONE, beats Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in surreal wackiness. Don't believe me? Have a look at ...