Tag: Religion

Why preserve a heritage? The Mohatta palace, built in colonial times for a Hindu businessman by a Muslim architect in the Mughal style using traditional...

Renowned Religious scholar Allama Muhammad Anwar Qureshi has said that Islam is a religion of peace and coexistence and teaches the Muslims to forge...

Clearly unaware of, or nonchalant, about the culture and practices of Muslims in Pakistan, a US solider who was accompanying US Ambassador Cameron Munter,...

First phase of the Raiwind congregation, which sources claimed was attended by over one million people from across the country and the world, came...

As the country is yet to recover from the mess created by extremist elements, the khateebs, imams and moazzins, posted at various mosques in...

Pakistan was established a separate country for Muslims where they could live in peace and harmony. But, Pakistan today is not what it was...

Our former Religious Minister Hamid Saeed Qazmi has now come up with startling disclosures that Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani appointed Rao Sahkeel...

A minorities group including members from Christian, Hindu, Bahá’í, Ahmedi, Zoroastrian and Sikh among Muslim communities has come forward to analyse and propose changes...

Muslim clerics, representatives from Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism and Bha’i religion on Saturday set up the Peace and Harmony Network Pakistan (PHNP) in a meeting...

In any field of knowledge, few significant advances have been made on the basis of faith alone. Even religion, that bastion of faith, invites...

Precisely who wrote the Bible has been debated for centuries – but now scientists have devised a computer program that sheds much more light...

Navratri is divided into sets of three days to adore three major aspects of the supreme goddess. For the first three days, the goddess...

The PML-N pursues politics considering it as sacred as religion and do not call corruption politics, party chief Nawaz Sharif said on Friday. “Our politics...

The government in Bangladesh will retain Islam as country's state religion despite pledges by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed to restore the state's secular...

LAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) is facing differences within the alliance over its future strategy. The SIC chairman-led Markazi Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, Sunni Tehrik and Nizam-e-Mustafa Party, an offshoot of JUP-N, are pushing for a greater role in politics while Jamat-e-Ahlesunnat Pakistan, the leadership of Tanzim-ul-Madaris and others are vehemently opposing the idea. Some small parties of the Ittehad are sitting on the fence.
The SIC, an alliance of 23 parties of the

KARACHI - Since Andy Warhol, popular culture has been equated with an ordinariness that is antithetical to bourgeois taste, said a press release issued by the Poppy Seed Gallery where an art exhibition titled 'What's Hot?' is running until April 17.
The participating artists are Sehba Maruf, Danish Ahmed, Sophia Mairaj, Malika Abbas, Sumaiya Jilani and Muhammad Ali.
Whereas Warhol's soup could symbolise 'common' experience, Warhol himself claimed to partake of it.
In

LAHORE - Local Christian community resort to religion as the excitement of the mighty semi-final reaches its climax at Mohali today. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Shareef offered special Nafl for the team and praying for victory, the Christian community tends to stand side by side praying for the same cause.
Cricket is in the air, everyone is trying to support their home team in their own little way. While the Muslims community are offering special prays after Jumma, the