Private Breakfast with Farahnaz Ispahani

MUMBAI, August 6, 2014 — Asia Society and Bloomberg hosted Farahnaz Ispahani, politician, writer, women and minority rights advocate and Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center as part of its Women of Asia series. In a private, off-the-record roundtable discussion, Ispahani opened the conversation with a brief about her new book, in which she spoke about the country’s …

“Pakistan’s shrinking minority space” by Farahnaz Ispahani

The desire of Islamist extremists to ‘purify’ Pakistan has resulted in a major catastrophe for the minorities. The country cannot emerge as a modern pluralist state until the reversal of this culture of intolerance The murder in Gujranwala of an elderly woman, a seven-year-old girl and an infant in a mob attack on members of the Ahmadi community highlights the …