South Asia Citizens Web

review of Manoj Mitta’s recently released, hard-hitting book on SIT’s ’fiction of fact-finding’ in the Zakia Jafri petition

The Express Tribune, April 7, 2014
by Sabina Khan
Within a decade of the nation’s inception, the 1956 Constitution declared Pakistan an Islamic Republic. It also deemed Islam the official religion of the country. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the patron of the 1973 Constitution, took it a step further and declared Islam the state religion. An amendment was also added to the Constitution a year later which proclaimed Ahmadis non-Muslims. Bhutto’s government went on to make Islamiat compulsory in (…)

The Pakistani feminist poet Fehmida Riaz through this wonderful poem in Hindustani suggests how India with its Hindutva religious right on the upswing is turning up to be on the same road as Pakistan. This recording was made on 5 April 2014 at a PIPFPD public event in New Delhi. This recording is part of the audio collection of South Asia Citizens Web Archive (sacw.net)

Awaaz Network and ’The Monitoring Group have jointly published the report ’Narenda Modi Exposed: challenging the myths surrounding the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate’. A meeting in London at the British Parliament in February 2014 re the communal violence against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 explained the issues raised in the above report. A press release ’Bring Modi to justice’ is also published here along with the report

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