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Men say their prayers during Eid al-Fitr at the Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. | REUTERS/Mohsin Raza Three young Christians in northeastern Pakistan have been charged with blasphemy after area Muslims alleged that pages of the Quran had been burned near some Christian homes to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims, according to a report. Police charged the three Christians, identified as Azeem Mehmood, Abbas Gulshan, and Irfan Saleem, from a village named Kotli Muhammad Sadique in Punjab Province’s Narowal district, on Dec. 30, the U.K.-based group Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance...

SHARE “Most people lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” This quote is often attributed to US naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau, who in fact wrote in his 1954 book Walden, “ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Saba Karim Khan, an instructor of social science at NYU Abu Dhabi, first heard the quote, or in this instance, varnished misquote, uttered by a guest speaker during a lecture on mindfulness in November 2017. The speaker, the headmaster of a school in the UK, asked the audience to think about what their song was a...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has sought a ban on women visiting the Badshahi Mosque

Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman removed as chairman of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad replaces him SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Dec 30, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Dec 30, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago File photo The federal government has removed Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman as the chairman of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee. Mufti Muneeb has been replaced by Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Azad was until now the Khateeb of Lahore’s famous Badshahi Mosque. The development c...

ABDUL Khaliq deals with customers at his ‘stall’ under a tree in Quetta’s Jinnah Town Square.—Photo by writer FORTY-FOUR years is a long period. Abdul Khaliq recalls the names of several cities where he has sold books loaded on a van. He has now landed in Quetta’s posh Jinnah town. “I sit where there is a shade,” the greying, old man says, standing under a leafless tree. “Last year, I had my bookshop in Quetta’s Millennium Mall,” he recalls, removing dust from a book cover. “To my dismay, there were hardly any people interested in buying books.”