The savage gang-rape of a five year old girl in Lahore this September whose body was then dumped outside a hospital, horrified Pakistan and the world. This brutal attack was then followed within a week by two more appalling rapes that hit the headlines - that of a young girl in Faisalabad and a college girl in Toba Tek Singh. In recent years, rapes of children and women in Pakistan…

The key ideas in Liberalism emerged and developed in Britain from the 17th Century to the 19th Century CE. In these centuries, the ideas of Liberalism were used to defend important vested interests against their opponents. Locke used Liberal ideas to support the English mercantile elite against the monarchy; and the Utilitarian philosophers used Liberalism to support British Capitalists against entrenched country lords. Meanwhile, Liberalism was used by radical French…

The aftermath of the chemical massacre in Ghouta, Syria, committed by tyrant Bashar Al Assad, as he attempts to cling onto his throne was witnessed on the TV screens of all in the West. However the concern for Syria has been in the hearts of minds of the Muslim community in the UK, long before this. Muslim women up and down the country, have read about the teeming refugee camps,…

Event: A spate of killings may signal an escalation of gang violence When K. Veerappan stopped his car at a traffic light in Georgetown, the old centre of Penang, it was the opportunity his killer had been waiting for. He came up alongside on August 8th and pumped at least ten bullets into Mr Veerappan, killing him instantly. The murder has shocked Malaysians. It was brazen-happening in broad daylight in…