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A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Baul Singers of Bangladesh Struggle to Survive Amid Onslaught By Muslim Hardliners

Singers of the Baul folk tradition in Bangladesh are struggling to survive after more than a decade of physical and legal attacks by Islamic hardliners who consider these artists apostates and heretics.

Pak court sentences Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to 15 years in prison

The anti-terrorism court in Lahore found LeT commander guilty of terror financing among other charges

Temple attack, an international embarrassment to country: Pak SC 

The apex court of Pakistan has ordered that the vandalised temple at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa be rebuilt, money recover from attackers

Should India applaud Pak’s move to rebuild one Hindu temple demolished by mobs?

Pak will rebuild one destroyed Hindu temple, what is its plan for tribals, Christians, Sikhs, Hindu’s targeted in other provinces?

Mob vandalises, sets ablaze Hindu temple in Pakistan

Indian right-wingers try use it as excuse to further pro-CAA agenda

Daniel Pearl Beheading: Pak court orders release of Omar Sheikh and aides

The Sindh High Court held their detention to be null and void and that they have been in prison for 18 years without committing any crime

Why Sheikh Hasina Is the Reason for the Rise of Islamists in Bangladesh

One of the important reasons why these Islamists feel so emboldened is because the Hasina government has been soft on them.

Sheikh Hasina’s ‘Strategic Compromise’ With Hefazat-e-Islam Turning Bangladesh Into An Extremist Hotbed Once Again

The Hefazat has been blackmailing the Hasina government into accepting its demands and its leader Junaid Babunagri has been issuing Taliban like diktats to the government.

Khadim Husain Rizvi and the Weaponisation of Barelwis in Pakistan

Khadim Husain, though responsible for giving a sense of purposive militancy to the Barelwis might also have been an unconscious player in someone else’s strategic game.

Why did Pak Minister plagiarise PM Modi’s ‘ghar me ghuskar’ line?

Is Pakistan guilty of terror attacks? But how did it dare attack India ‘ghar me ghuskar’? Bhakts on both sides are confused!

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