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Under PTI, a better law for Pakistan’s Christians – Prism

The ruling party is about to propose historical legislation that will improve the lives of more than four million citizens. At the next session of the National Assembly, it is assumed that the Minister of Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, will present a proposed Marriage and Divorce Act of 2019 for adoption. If passed, this bill […]

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Qatar — the tiny Gulf state that could – Prism

Qatar is distinguished by focusing on areas that other countries seem to consider secondary, such as well-being and art. More than two years have passed since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed all ties with the small state of Qatar on June 5, 2017. However, the art presented to mark the

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The spatial politics of Lahore’s Hindu temples – Prism

The Lahore that is now marked by a great infrastructure hides the Lahore that exists in historical imagination. Lahore was dealing with the consequences of a heavy downpour; The price of a cool July day was having to walk along a muddy Ravi road. We turn down a dark alley lined by one of the

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Amrita Pritam at 100: Political, progressive and a true pioneer – Prism

Full of spring, the writer adorned and refined our lives with her prose and poetry throughout the twentieth century. ‘There was a pain I consume in silence Like a cigarette There are some poems I've shaken like ashes Of the cigarette Amrita Pritam, who was born 100 years ago in Gujranwala (now in present-day Pakistan)

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In KP, six years for PTI – and one for Mahmood Khan – Prism

Mahmood Khan has had to please many in his first year as prime minister. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has completed the first year of his second term in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). His government in the province is now in its seventh year, which is a distinction given that KP historically never elects the same party for

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Climate change affects women more. What can the state do to intervene? – Prism

Even guaranteeing each community its own well or water pump will allow women to claim their time and options. Climate change is affecting us all, but certain demographic data more than others. Marginalized communities, and within them, women in particular, feel the discriminatory impacts of climate change more severely. Although this greater vulnerability is due

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