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Daily Archives: December 28, 2017

Catching up with Ahsan Khan

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With 2017 coming to a close, we are awaiting the release of last film of the year, Chupan Chupai that marks Ahsan Khan’s big screen debut in the new wave of Pakistan cinema. Currently busy with the promotions of the film that premieres in Karachi tonight, Khan talked to Instep about film promotions, being honest […]


Identity of Kalash people facing extinction, NCHR says

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ISLAMABAD: The identity of the indigenous Kalash people is facing extinction, the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) has warned in a report. Titled The Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Constitutional Rights of Indigenous Kalash People, the report said that “unwilling conversions and cajoled marriages with non-Kalash” are some of the “immediate threats” facing the […]


Bring him home

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The five bloggers and activists that were abducted (and later released) at the beginning of 2017 will end the year with at least the vindication that an FIA investigation into their activities yielded no evidence that they were involved in any way with the charge of blasphemy. Since December 2, a young activist named Raza […]


Misuse of the blasphemy law

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WHEN the FIA informed the Islamabad High Court the other day that it had no evidence that the five bloggers abducted and detained for many days had committed blasphemy, it did not add anything to the people’s knowledge as they had known this fact all along. The FIA admission, however, confirms this case as one […]