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Last week, a workshop titled ‘Jinns and Black Magic’ was organised in Islamabad by the department of humanities at the COMSATS Institute of Technology (CIIT), one of Pakistan’s largest universities. The invited speaker, Raja Zia-ul-Haq, introduced as a ‘spiritual cardiologist’ is reputedly an expert on demonic possessions and evil spirits. He is popular: a press photograph shows no standing room left in the university’s main auditorium.

This is an important book. The idea that every generation rewrites history is certainly true in the case of the 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan. Indeed, one might say that the Partition has been rewritten every decade or so.

The problem of the deep collapse of the justice institutions in Sri Lanka, would need to be addressed if a credible outcome is to emerge, from implementation of this Resolution. Mere arrival of experts alone would not suffice.

October 8, 2015

Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) strongly condemns Shiv Sena for using the threat of violence which led to the cancellation of performance of Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali.

They believe their efforts are more about social justice than philanthropy, but these young lawyer collectives are giving back to society by choosing to represent those with little or no legal recourse