We are working hard to host a talk in Toronto by Professor Ayesha Jalal on her latest book The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, and Work Across the Indo-Pakistan Divide’ sometime in early November. Please check back for more details.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Sectarian Violence in Pakistan
What are the origins and history of discrimination and violence against religious minorities – Ahmedis, Christians, Hindus and Shia? What do fundamentalist organizations such as the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehreek-e-Taliban stand for? Who supports them and why? What can decent minded people do to help Pakistan become a tolerant society where all citizens are equal and safe?
Attacks on two Ahmedi mosques killed 86 in May 2010 in Lahore
Houses and shops being torched in Christian community of Joseph in Lahore in March 2013
Hindu temple destroyed in Sindh in December 2012
Shia mourn the death of 200 killed in terrorist attack in Quetta in Jan 2013