Paaras Abbas

LAPIDO INVESTIGATION: Any room at all for discussion of Islam in Pakistan today?

by - 12th September 2012

Anybody who gives a liberal interpretation of Islam cannot live in Pakistan’.  Startling claim by Director of Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission.

Death and devotion

by - 18th July 2012

KARACHI:  Pakistan’s biggest mela attracted thousands again this year despite increased violence against folk Islam worldwide.

KARACHI: Sufi pilgrims defiant despite threats

by - 18th July 2012

Awareness of a concerted global strategy by Saudi-style religionists to destroy folk Islam is growing.  What effect have the Timbuktu bombings had elsewhere?

AFRICA: War and car insurance are God's business

by - 4th April 2012

US foreign correspondent Eliza Griswold recently urged editors to deconstruct their ideas of religion to report the truth, reports Paaras Abbas.