Deobandi madrassas and violence in Karachi – Ali Arqam: The burgeoning of madressahs at the outskirts of the city meant that trained and taught peshimams were readily available for hire to lead prayers elsewhere in the city. It is for this reason that most prayer leaders in posh
The madressa mix: Beneath the surface: Lords of the land In Karachi, some mosques and madressas have slowly but surely drifted away from being part of the community to becoming power brokers By Ali Arqam | Maulana Attaur Rehman has been leading prayers at Farooqi
Boy strangulated after being tortured – by Obaid Abbasi: Police believe the 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted before being killed. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD:The body of a 10-year-old seminary student was found in the Koral area late on Wednesday. He had allegedly been sexually-assaulted by an unidentified person
طالبان کی نو عمر لڑکوں سے جنسی زیادتی – از حق گو: پاکستان اور افغانستان کے بعض علاقوں میںتحریک طالبان پاکستان کے ہاتھوں نو عمر لڑکوں کا جنسی استحصال عام ہے۔ یہ بات سینٹرل ایشیا آن لائن کو تجزیہ کاروں، علماء اور ایک سابق عسکریت پسند سے کیے گئے انٹرویوز میں
Division by Mosques and Madaris – by H A Khan: This morning after taking my breakfast I just opened a BBC Urdu site and while holding a cup of tea in my hands I became so sad and couldn’t resist with some tears in my eyes. There was
Madrasah-e-Karachi – by Nazir Qaiser: اردو اور پنجابی کے معروف منفرد تیکھے لہجے اور بلند آہنگ شاعر اور ادیب نذیر قیصر روزنامہ مشرق کیلئے روزانہ قطعہ لِکھ رہے ہیں۔ ہم آج کا قطعہ قارئین کی خِدمت میں کراس پوسٹ کر رہے ہیں یہ ستارے
ICG Report: Radical parties threaten Pakistan’s fragile democracy: Religious intolerance, sectarian violence and radical Islamic parties threaten to undermine the democratic reforms on which Pakistan’s stability depends. Islamic Parties in Pakistan , the latest International Crisis Group report, examines the internal workings, policies and agendas of these
Madrassa graduates and labour market mismatches -by Murtaza Haider: The proliferation of madrassa education in Pakistan has contributed to labour market mismatches. According to the Pakistan government’s own statistics in 2008 alone twice as many students were enrolled in the 12,500 madrassas than in the 124-odd universities. Given
An Islamic Predicament -by Eqbal Ahmed: Any historian of Islam would shudder at what passes in Pakistan for instruction in Islamic history. Some Years ago, I queried an M.A class in this subject at a major Pakistani university. None of the 25 odd students there