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Jun 19, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohammad Luqman |Haroon Janjua
Ahmadis persecuted in Pakistan · 19.06.2024 In 1974, Ahmadi Muslims were declared a non-Muslim minority by the Pakistani parliament. Since then, it has become much harder for them to perform their religious duties https://qantara.de/en/node/44075 Print The pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is one of the central elements of Islamic religious practice.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Rafiqul Islam Montu |Dominik Müller |Mohammad Luqman
Classes have been cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperatures at home left her in no state for homework. Millions of pupils were told to stay home this week as the South Asian nation swelters through one of its worst heatwaves on record, with temperatures 4-5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. Few schools in the capital Dhaka have air conditioning, and trying to conduct classes would have been futile.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Dominik Müller |Mohammad Luqman |Marian Brehmer
General election in Modi's India · 16.04.2024 With elections on 19 April, India looks set to re-elect Narendra Modi's BJP party, greenlighting an ongoing process of Hinduisation on the subcontinent. The persecution of Muslims and other minorities will intensify.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Murali Krishnan |Mohammad Luqman |Haroon Janjua
Pakistan election aftermath · 26.02.2024 Islamabad's frail new ruling coalition will need the blessing of Pakistan's military before attempting to improve ties with New Delhi https://qantara.de/en/node/43550 Print Pakistan is trying to move on from a controversy-marred national election in which none of its major parties were able to win a clear parliamentary majority.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Sundus Saleemi |Haroon Janjua |Mohammad Luqman
The deal between two Pakistani parties to form a coalition government will be based on conditional support from one of them, the Pakistan People's Party, that will review decisions on a case-by-case basis, a top PPP official said on Wednesday. Such an arrangement could make life difficult for the government, which needs to take tough decisions to steer the country out of financial crisis facing a strong opposition bloc led by supporters ofjailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ronald Meinardus |Mohammad Luqman |Sonja Hegasy |Mira Mandal
Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her own case before the nation's Supreme Court. "I can now say that my battle against age-old Islamic rules on marriage and divorce has been won," said Bano, a Muslim woman whose husband chose to have two wives and divorced her by uttering "talaq" three times.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohammad Luqman |Maryam Khan
Perched on her traditional charpai bed, Naeem Kausir says she would like to vote in Pakistan's upcoming election – if only the men in her family would let her. Like all the women in her town, the 60-year-old former headmistress and her seven daughters – six already university-educated – are forbidden from voting by their male elders. "Whether by her husband, father, son or brother, a woman is forced.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Sundus Saleemi |Mohammad Luqman |Tobias Matern
His name may not be on the ballot, but Imran Khan will be on the country's mind as Pakistan votes in an election this week that observers say is deeply flawed without his participation. The former international cricket star has been given three lengthy prison sentences in under a week and been banned from politics for 10 years – officially excluding him from an election it never looked like he would allowed to contest.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohammad Luqman |Sundus Saleemi |Haroon Janjua
Aamir Mughal brandishes an eggplant before a gaggle of voters, rallying support behind the Pakistani staple during an election campaign he says is being undermined by bizarre symbols assigned to candidates. "The eggplant is now a famous symbol across all Pakistan," declares the candidate for the capital Islamabad, a follower of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohammad Luqman |Tobias Matern |Sundus Saleemi
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were each handed a 14-year jail sentence on Wednesday in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts. The verdict by an anti-graft court came a day after Khan received a 10-year jail sentence for leaking state secrets. In prison since August, Khan, 71, denies wrongdoing and accuses the military of persecuting him.
