Humaira Zia Mufti

In wake of the gruesome beheading of Safoora Bibi, Humaira Zia Mufti, highlights in a hard-hitting piece how the absence of constructive debate on blasphemy laws has increased incidents of public vigilantism in Pakistan. Such events undermine the country’s international campaign to end Islamophobia.

Unfortunately many cases of animals abuse in Pakistan are surfacing on the web and even though animal abuse is not too common in the country, there are enough cases to be ashamed and alarmed about. Various photos or videos get viral on social media on daily basis.

A collapse of the Afghan economy would produce an outflow of millions of Afghan refugees. Even as apprehensions persist about the deterioration in the humanitarian situation inside Afghanistan, there is also a chance to avert the impending refugee crisis.