Tag: Intolerance
Govt transfers PPC to NACTA to counter violent extremism
PPC likely to be upgraded as a strategic communication centre for research analysis, support to govt departments
ISLAMABAD: The government transferred the Pakistan Peace Collective...
Rising intolerance: Man refuses procedural stamp by Hindu in CMH
A man refused to get his procedure slip stamped by a Hindu worker in uniform during his visit to the Cardiac Emergency Unit of...
He was Hawking, not hawkish!
By Ravi Kumar
Stephen William Hawking, whose life was astoundingly far-reaching, is still receiving outpourings of praise and love for the contributions that he made...
US human rights official urges Indian leaders to promote tolerance
A top US human rights official expressed concern on Thursday about recent incidents of violence in India against religious minorities, urging national leaders to...
Indian president ‘sad’ about intolerant India
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has voiced his concerns over growing intolerance in India.
The incumbent president said that it is extremely ‘sad’ to see the...
BJP leader compares Shatrughan Sinha with a ‘dog’ for meeting rivals
Internal rifts within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to be getting deeper and deeper after the party suffered a heavy electoral defeat in...
Sonia Gandhi leads long march against intolerance in India
Congress President Sonia Gandhi led her party’s protest march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Indian presidential palace, on Tuesday against the "continuous rising intolerance"...
HRCP sees alarm over growing threats to democracy and human rights
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed alarm over growing threats to democracy and human rights in the country.
“The HRCP Executive...
Report says over 35,000 madrassas operating in Pakistan
The primary finding of the survey was that madrassa students were more likely to back war and militant conflict and less inclined to support equal rights for members of the oppressed groups than their counterparts in secular schools
Delayed justice leads to intolerance: Justice Khan
Supreme Court Judge Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has said that it was the mandate of Judiciary to provide an expeditious, fair and impartial justice...
Experts urge textbook reforms to cure rising religious intolerance
Textbooks used in country’s schools these days are rife with factual errors, bias and hate towards a number of religious groups and nations, a...
State of human rights going from worse to worst
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm at growing intolerance and abuse of belief, continued incidents of enforced disappearance and illegal...
Colonising the Pakistani mind
The menace within
The word 'calm' is a relative one. More so in Pakistan. A lull in acts of terrorism reinforces the feeling of calm....
Remembering Taseer
Intolerance lives
The murder of Salmaan Taseer, the outspoken liberal politician and Governor of Punjab, was a testimony to the depth of extremist sentiment in...
Unity in difference
I am writing this letter to bring to your attention the issue of increasing intolerance in Pakistan. Pakistan has a lot of diversity in...
Pakistan is hostage to intolerance
Federal Minister for Professional and Technical Education Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Wednesday rued the fact that the education system in Pakistan was not...
Gilani seeks literati’s advice on extremism, intolerance
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday acknowledging the positive contribution of literati towards a tolerant society assured drawing up of national strategy,...