Asia edition published by Harper-Collins, India out December, 2015. The US edition to be published by Oxford University Press, USA in mid of 2016. Farahnaz Ispahani Author of “Purifying The Land Of The Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities” Harper-Collins, India 2015. Oxford University Press USA, 2016, Former Member of Pakistan Parliament.
Ms Farahnaz Ispahani’s book on Pakistan’s religious minorities “Purifying The Land Of The Pure” published by Harper-Collins, India will be out in on December 20th, 2015. Oxford University Press USA, is expected to release the book in the US, UK and Europe in 2016.
On September 29, the State Department added British citizen Sally Jones to its list of foreign terrorists. Jones is a 46-year-old punk rocker who converted to Islam and moved from Kent to Raqqa to join the Islamic State in 2013. She is also newly widowed, having lost her 21-year-old husband, ISIS hacker Junaid Hussain, in an American airstrike targeting him …
In establishing a homeland for Muslims, Pakistan’s founding father, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, also supported the idea of Islam serving as a unifying force and believed Pakistanis had a responsibility to uphold the principles of religious freedom and to protect the rights of religious minorities. As religious intolerance and violence against religious minorities grows, it is clear that Pakistan has failed …
Aaron talks with former Pakistani Assembly Member and current Pakistani Presidential Media Advisor and Spokeswoman Farahnaz Ispahani. They discuss religious strife in the Middle East and the destruction caused by military dictatorships, why, in Ispahani’s words, current events really can’t be called an “Arab Spring,” the struggle for women in the region, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also …
The South Asia Channel Persecution Without Prosecution: The Fate of Minorities in Pakistan With religious persecution in Pakistan going unchecked, it is time for the United States to designate Pakistan a Country of Particular Concern. By Farahnaz Ispahani – A former member of the Pakistani parliament and author of the forthcoming book: Purifying The Land of the Pure: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities. …
Pakistan “Women’s Political Participation in the Muslim World” Reagan Fascell Democracy Fellow: Mar 2015 – Jul 2015 Ms. Farahnaz Ispahani has been a leading voice for women and religious minorities in Pakistan for the past twenty five years, first as a journalist, then as a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, and most recently as a scholar based in the United …
It was a small gathering on a cold winter night. Just over 100 people stood in Dupont Circle to recite poems, light candles and chant slogans in Urdu that few passersby would understand. “Pakistan Zindabad, Taliban Murdabad,” they repeated. Long life to Pakistan, death to the Taliban. But the modest event, held in the District in response to the terrorist …
Two years after being elected, the world’s first female Muslim prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, received intelligence that a man called Osama bin Laden had given orders to kill her. The year was 1990. Al-Qaeda had not yet officially been formed, but the organizers of global jihad had already determined that Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they launched their first modern jihad …
Sunday, November 09, 2014 ISIS represents a barbaric attitude of trying to destroy civilisation out of spite: Husain Haqqani Author and former Pakistan Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani hailed the role of the UAE in combating the scourge of the militant group ISIS. “The leadership of the UAE has led by example. The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin …