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Last year, more than 200 cases of blasphemy were registered in Pakistan, where the crime can be punishable by death. …
When Pakistan’s first web series, Churails (Urdu for “witches”) dropped on the streaming service Zee5 in August, it raised eyebrows. The show’s…
The first few seconds in the nine-minute Pakistani-American short film, “Blue: A Kaleidoscope”, is a faceless conversation between two women…
Lhakpa Tshering, 65, a former duty leader of the Special Frontier Force (SFF), India’s covert security unit, felt helpless watching…
On Saturday, September 12, a few hours before she stepped out of her home in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad, Tooba…
On August 5, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) observed two significant milestones. One was…
AYODHYA, India — On Dec. 6, 1992, a horde of Hindu zealots razed a mosque in the holy city of…
This article originally appeared on VICE IndiaOn the evening of June 27, Tehreem was absentmindedly clicking through Instagram stories at…
An initial investigation of the cause behind the plane crash in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi last month suggests that…