By Anwaar Hussain Meerwala is a small, dusty village in the mostly rural Muzaffargarh District in the south of Punjab province of Pakistan. This small, nondescript village has produced a personality whose name has been reverberating across the globe for some years now. The name of this person is Mukhtaran Bibi (also known as Mukhtar [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Someone needed to say this, so there. We huff and puff, in a self-righteous rage, over the refusal of a few in the US of A to allow the building of a mosque near ground zero. For the bigots on either side especially, the issue has become so consuming that its is [...]

By Nadeem F. Paracha It was horrifying: the beating to death and then the upside down hanging of the two young brothers in Sialkot. Accused of theft, the teenagers were brutally beaten with sticks and kicks by at least four men — an event that was watched in silence by a couple of cops and [...]

By Irfan Husain The ongoing furore over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque shows no sign of abating after weeks of noisy controversy. In a sense, it has become a litmus test of America’s cherished freedom of worship, as well as its tolerance of other people and other faiths. But to put things in perspective, I [...]

By Bill Noxid It’s Time for Americans to stop making false proclamations about this Country that only demonstrate their ignorance and unwillingness to face what happened yesterday, much less the historical truth of the United States.  Since the brief shift of direction toward exposing truth during the end of the Bush era and 2008 Presidential [...]

By Masood Hasan The Goddess of Despair and Despondency has taken up permanent residence in this 63-year-old-country which lurches from crisis to crisis every single minute of the day. She has spread her shroud of death over this land and watches from afar as we implode within and impale without on poisoned spears that inject [...]

A Truth Spring exclusive By Pervaiz Alam* The other day I was driving on one of Islamabad’s roads when I saw a black Mercedes slightly bumping into a car moving ahead. Four young men alighted from that car, rushed to the Mercedes, dragged out the young driver and started beating him, calling him a drunkard. [...]