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It's been a busy day for lovers around the world. In Malaysia , authorities arrested 80 umarried Muslims from budget hotels and parks ....

Without further ado... [ Update 1: The above video may not play because it has been pulled from Youtube by Geo . In that case you can wa...

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...

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

In my last post, I included an alleged fatwa by an alleged mufti Muhammad Idris Usmani associated allegedly with a seminary called Jamia I...

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 6th Karachi International Book Fair was held in Karachi this week. More than 300 publishers/ booksellers, more than a quarter million v...

Dear Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, I am writing this open letter to you because the righting of wrongs ...

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

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...

Can people just stop with the pointless sms-es and emails wishing ' Ramadan Mubarak '? I mean, you hear from all manner of random pe...

Of course, everyone who has seen today's International Herald Tribune (IHT) which comes as part of the Express Tribune is wondering abo...

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...

Here's the sajjada nasheen  (custodian) of the Shah Rukn-e-Alam sufi shrine in Multan - whose yearly urs or commemmoration of the death...