I appreciate you taking a stand for me and my rights as a male, Ms Umnia Shahid, but the boys and I will be just fine.

We direly need religious scholars like Aamir Liaquat lending their voices to the progressive forces of this country.

A few days ago, a 22-year-old Pakistani tailor was arrested for raising an Indian flag over the roof of his house.

Does Kolachi force waiters get down on all fours to make human chairs for the customers too?

Charlie Hebdo cartoons are never easy on the eyes; they force one to question the humanity of the cartoonist.

Condemning an obviously bigoted statement like Trump’s is not the litmus test for being a ‘good person’.

A useful strategy is to de-criminalise common ‘soft drugs’ like marijuana (and more recently in Pakistan, shisha).

That white man stood before me, flamboyantly dressed up as a Kashmiri Muslim for fun. Spilling beer on his fake beard.

What message does it air to the world, when a state harasses and arrests people over harvesting beef?

We’re the only species deeming our own physiological bodily responses ‘improper’, in favour of a daft social construct