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The surge of promoting religious extremism by the local madrasas in Pakistan is now being handled by the Pakistani authorities in a slightly different way. The religious seminary and school in Muridke, a town close to the Indian border in the province of Punjab, has been labelled as a training camp and a base for […]

Abdul Sattar Edhi, 84, gave up everything to devote his life to helping Pakistan’s poorest. From standing on the foot paths to beg for the poor, to establishing Pakistan’s biggest network of shelter homes and ambulance service, here is the selfless journey of a true living saint. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace […]

Born in an Irish-Catholic home to a white-supremacist father, Michael Muhammad Knight converted to Islam when he was 15. He then moved to Pakistan to study Islam at Faisal Mosque, a Saudi-funded mosque with an experience he called “hardcore, austere and uncreative Saudi Islam”. Years later, Michael burned out on the demands of religious dogma […]

  orruption. Poverty. Terrorism. Inequality.These are ostensibly the most pressing problems affecting Pakistan today, which can conceivably be alleviated through education. But unfortunately, the country’s beleaguered education system is, in its present state, ill equipped to make profound positive changes to the country and its society. At a public school in Kasur, a district in […]