Blasting away culture by Kamila Hyat

Kamila Hyat

The bomb blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Shah Noorani in Khuzdar, Balochistan has added to the hundreds killed in similar attacks on Sufi centres of worship; these attacks began a decade ago. Since then there have been at least 25 major attacks, targeting devotees at shrines which include Data Gang Bakhsh in Lahore, Baba Farid in Pakpattan, Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi and Rehman Baba the Pashto poet and scholar whose writings on Sufism are a subject of scholarly

The fading of distant glimmer by Kamila Hayat

Kamila Hayat

There is a certain sense of hope that keeps driving us on, from one day to the next, from one week to the other, as we look on at images from the latest carnage, the latest act of slaughter, the latest act of violence against a woman, a non-Muslim or other citizen.

We hope that in time our country will move to a place which is less dark and into which the sun shines more freely, lighting up the

The footprints in the snow written by Kamila Hyat

 

                                           

 Kamila Hyat

The writer is a freelance
 columnist and former
 newspaper editor.

There is every reason to be outraged by the situation faced by Kashmiris. Their tragedy is a genuine one, rooted in a division of the Subcontinent made clumsily and far too hastily by its British colonial rulers as they scrambled to escape the ruin and bloodshed they had created as their rule of nearly a century came to an end.