Author: Arshia Malik

Around 300 Pakistani nationals – many from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) – drowned after an overcrowded Libyan boat sank off the Greece coast last week. The Pakistani embassy in Athens identified 12 nationals who escaped drowning, out of the hundreds on the boat. But the numbers are higher. For years, Pakistanis have been migrating to Europe for […]

What signifies BJP's change of stance towards Muslim minorities?

The recent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ tweet equating Hinduism and Islam based on the misinformation

Despite the claim of Islamists that sharia is the universally accepted law of Islam, the word is controversial, and its opponents are mostly Muslims

It is high time Muslims grew mature, and developed confidence to tackle difficult subjects and not fall for the agenda of ‘vulture activists’

The disinformation campaign surrounding the G20 meeting in Srinagar from May 22-24 has reached a fever pitch, particularly regarding the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. If Michael Kugelman’s piece in FP and UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes’s statement is to be believed, the meeting are just a ruse by the Government […]

Muslim intellectuals tend to avoid discussing the historical trend of labelling those who challenge the dominant narrative as apostates or blasphemers

Fatah believed that the West could & should play a positive role in supporting reform efforts in the Muslim world.

It is interesting to see how news portals and media houses around the world twisted the facts of Atiq Ahmed’s death to fit the "democracy is dying in India" narrative

The personal character of Muhammad’s companions should be emulated, but the political system they created, which resulted in assassinations, civil wars, and other conflicts, should not be seen as a model for the future